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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 […]
SWS Industries Is Now Using Solar Energy At Their Facility
SWS Industries is proud to mark its three-month anniversary since Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) Middle East powered a 0.55 megawatt-peak (MWp) solar photovoltaic (PV) rooftop at their facility in Dubai. Operating since 2004 in the United Arab Emirates, SWS Industries became a valued business in the industry specializing in innovative solutions for action sports […]
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 […]
Ministry of Climate Change and Environment Inaugurates National Air Quality Platform
Ministry introduces initiative in collaboration with National Center of Meteorology, Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah Launch coincides with International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies Abu Dhabi-UAE: 7 September, 2020 – His Excellency Dr Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, today attended the […]
MBRSC Releases 0.7 Meter Satellite Image “Mosaic” captured by KhalifaSat
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) today announced the completion of an updated map of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai using the UAE’s first high-resolution satellite image “Mosaic”, captured by KhalifaSat. The system captures a matrix of individual digital images to create a single high-resolution picture of the UAE’s terrain. This imaging system by […]
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 […]
Farnek’s Vertical Rooftop Garden Comes to Life
Leading UAE-based smart and green facilities management (FM) company Farnek, in partnership with Dutch green-tech projects specialist developer Urban Ponics, has created a 240sqm vertical rooftop garden at Farnek’s brand new staff accommodation centre in Dubai South – Farnek Village. Farnek arranged for a team of experts from Urban Ponics in the Netherlands to fly […]
The Problem with teaching sustainability in schools.
The Problem with teaching sustainability in schools Are children being taught the right way about sustainability, going green, recycling and protecting the planet? Many schools and even nurseries have included topics on environmental sustainability, recycling, going green, waste reduction and more into their curriculum. Many nurseries have monthly themes that they follow, and all learning […]
Masdar City’s Eco Residences 2 project wins MENA Green Building of the Year
Masdar City’s Eco Residences 2 project, has been awarded the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Green Building Project of the Year, at the MENA Green Building Awards 2020. This award marks the second Green Building Award for the Eco Residence project, after phase one of the development, received the Green Residential Building award in 2018. […]
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is the Arab World’s largest celebration of the written and spoken word, featuring international and regional writers, poets, thinkers and speakers from around the world. Visit the Festival in 2020, 4 – 9 February, to enjoy great conversations, thought provoking discussions, laugh-out-loud interactive children’s sessions, and spectacular special events. […]
