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The American School of Dubai’s Leadership in Sustainability
By Laurence Myers, K-12 Service Learning Coordinator, American School of Dubai On February 2, 2019 the Gulf News ran an article named Why this school was awarded a coveted $ 100,000 prize highlighting the American School of Dubai’s being awarded the Zayed Sustainability Prize (ZSP). To the UAE community this was, perhaps, the first […]
Tadweer Opens Expanded Used Tire Recycling Facility
Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer) announced the opening of its expanded used tire recycling facility in Abu Dhabi. Run in strategic partnership with the private sector, the facility aims to ensure the safe disposal of used tires to avoid public health and environmental risks. To ensure the facility’s success, Tadweer has contracted with Tarheel […]
BALLY Announces New Mountain Preservation Effort And A Dedicated Peak Outlook Foundation
24 March – The Swiss luxury brand returns to Mount Everest sponsoring community-led clean-ups throughout the Himalayas and beyond BALLY reinforces its mountain preservation agenda in 2020, following the milestone commitments set with the launch of its Peak Outlook initiative in Spring last year, which included the first-ever clean-up expedition of Mount Everest from base […]
COVID19 : The Earth’s Breather
By Shubhangi Patil, Intern MBBS at DY Patil Hospital & Research Institute In all these years , the world never seen such a bad thing happen; for our daily lives and economies took a backseat. All busy shores were cleared , people trying to accept this phase and normalising. Where even the holiest sites […]
Emirates Steel a Key Partner for the UAE’s Peaceful Nuclear Energy Programme
Emirates Steel worked with ENEC for the ten-year construction period of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Company supplied 60% of project’s rebar requirements A major achievement in meeting stringent global nuclear energy construction standards Abu Dhabi-UAE: 9 September 2020 – Emirates Steel, the leading integrated steel plant in the UAE, has proudly announced its contribution […]
Youngest Emirati inventor congratulates UAE students at Taqeef’s STEM learning programme finale
Inventive pupils from seven UAE schools received a special and inspiring note of recognition recently at a virtual celebration ceremony to mark their participation in iMatter – a STEM learning programme by Taqeef, the Middle East’s leading air conditioning solutions provider. Fatima Al Kaabi, the country’s youngest Emirati inventor and Pioneers of the UAE awardee, […]
Sheikh Zayed Falcon Release Programme Marks its 25th Year with a New Milestone
Despite the current challenges posed by the global pandemic, 76 falcons have been released into the wild this year as part of the Sheikh Zayed Falcon Release Programme (SZFRP), taking the total to more than 2,000 since the programme first launched in 1995. Following the success of 11 releases in Kazakhstan in previous years, the […]
Two Sides of the Coin
Bitcoin trading per day is using 0.17% of the worlds daily electricity consumption, according to an index by Digiconomist. With Bitcoin prices the way they are currently, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn around 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to mine more Bitcoins, according to Digiconomist. That electricity consumption […]
The Link Between Spirituality and Good Business Practices
By Niranjan Gidwani, Independent Consultant Director and Former CEO Of Eros Group More and more people today are finding that there’s more to life—and business—than profits alone. Money as the single and only bottom line is increasingly becoming a thing of the past. In a world of massive corporate frauds, values and ethics are […]
This Too Shall Pass
By Mohamed Elimam It has been 8 weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic. The emotional roller-coaster is becoming stronger, but has gotten in a recognizable pattern. On one hand, the new peak frequency of news of companies undergoing mass lay-off exercises is nerve wrecking. The longingness to our […]
