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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 […]
Sustainability-Focused Building for Greater Wellness
By Francis Alfred, Managing Director and CEO of Sobha Realty We are nearing the end of what will be a year to remember; a year where everything else was overlaid by the unpleasant pandemic. Recently, amidst all these COVID-19 conversations there was a brief respite as we remembered another threat to our planet – climate […]
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 […]
Vertical Farming Partnership Enters The UAE Market
A new vertical farming partnership is set to enter the UAE market as leading systems vendors IGS signs a partnership deal with AgTech R&D experts and growers Madar Farms. A local Emirati company, based in Abu Dhabi, Madar Farms has already developed a range of premium quality indoor-grown crops to supply into the local UAE […]
Extending the UAE’s Expertise Across the Seas
Bee’ah Wins Largest Waste Management Contract in the Middle East for Egypt’s new Administrative Capital Sharjah, UAE, 28 January 2020 Bee’ah, the award-winning UAE-based sustainability and environmental services pioneer, has been appointed as the waste management partner for Egypt’s new Administrative Capital, which is being developed by the Administrative Capital for Urban Development and is […]
Sustaining Tourism Responsibly with HE Helal Saeed Al Marri
1. How did the UAE begin its journey towards sustainable tourism? What success has been seen so far? Sustainability has undoubtedly been a key priority for the UAE government for many years, with the UAE actively working to enhance its role among leading nations in the field of sustainability, and to bolster its position as […]
Bee’ah with Region’s First Solar Light Show
Bee’ah, the Middle East’s award-winning sustainability pioneer, celebrated the 49th UAE National Day and paid tribute to the seven emirates of the country with a stunning solar-powered light show, a first for the region, at its new headquarters. Bee’ah’s Headquarters, set to launch in 2021 as one of the world’s greenest and smartest AI-integrated office […]
The UAE’s Journey to Sustainably
By Maya Abou Jahr, Researcher PhD The road ahead beckons us to usher in a harmonious sustainable society. After agriculture, industrial, and information age, the fourth wave of economy is the wave of sustainable development or the quest for sustainability (Alleem, 2014, p. 13). The future will belong to companies and people who are far-sighted […]
UAE’s The Storey Group Launches One Billion Trees Initiative
The UAE’s The Storey Group (TSG) has launched an ambitious initiative to encourage the Emirates’ residents and corporates to come together to help plant one billion trees globally by 2026 in a transformational project designed to help offset the country’s carbon emissions. OBTI enables people to buy or gift trees, with each tree delivering […]
Tadweer Environmental Awareness Drive Delivers
Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer) revealed that its awareness activities and campaigns in 2020 delivered significant results in promoting environmental awareness across Abu Dhabi Emirate despite the unprecedented challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic to its operations. “Tadweer’s awareness efforts articulate the Center’s strategic objective of providing the highest health environmental safety standards to […]