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8 Tips for a Healthy Lunch Box from Waitrose
As children head back to school in the coming weeks, packing them lunches that are filled with healthy, delicious food has never been so important. The team at Waitrose knows that providing a nutrient-dense lunch while meeting the energy needs of a growing child requires a little thought. With these tips and product recommendations from […]
Nayef Shahin
How were the values and beliefs of Sheikh Zayed ingrained into the community you grew up in and how did it impact you personally? Well I think the mission and vision of Sheikh Zayed, is planted in all Emiratis. It’s more of lifestyle, where the projection of his vision was more of what an Emirati […]
6 Questions for the Company Providing the Ingredient That Makes Working From Home Possible
The Sustainabilist spoke to RAW Coffee Company Co-Owner and Managing Director, Kim Thompson, about the disruption caused by COVID-19 on RAW’s business model and how they have adapted to the new circumstances. As avid coffee drinkers ourselves, we are passionate about sustainable and ethically sourced coffee whose quality never fails to impress our tastebuds. RAW […]
A New Baseline for a Greater Collective Action
By Ibrahim Al-Zu’bi, Chief Sustainability Officer at Majid Al Futtaim Holding Over the centuries, humans have fundamentally changed the make-up of our planet. Our activities have caused global warming and the destruction of the natural world with farming, mining, and housing driving wildlife out of their natural habitats and into more contact with people. […]
Academia and Industry Join Forces to Diversify Fuel Sources
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Dubai has joined forces with Saudi-based engineering group, Jubail Pearl, to establish a long-term partnership that aims to generate sustainable sources of fuel to help diversify the region’s energy supply for a post-oil era. The collaboration was sealed with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and will begin with the production and […]
ACCIONA launches BIONS, a new intelligent cloud-data platform for water management
ACCIONA, a leading global company in sustainable infrastructure solutions, has launched BIONS (Business Intelligence Of Network Solutions), a new intelligent cloud-based data platform that integrates data to improve the efficiency of water supply management systems. This next-generation platform provides an in-depth vision of the water supply service in real time, for an overall view of […]
AkzoNobel Receives SBTi Approval for Carbon Reduction Targets
AkzoNobel’s commitment to setting science-based sustainability targets has now been officially validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) – confirming its status as the first paints and coatings company to receive this endorsement. Our commitment to carbon footprint reduction is reflected in the company’s operations in the Middle East as well where it has […]
Accelerated Digitalization to Unlock $2.6 Trillion in Oil and Gas
DHL Global Forwarding has released a whitepaper examining the key trends impacting the oil and gas (O&G) industry in the Middle East and Africa. According to the leading air, ocean and road freight specialist, digitalization will continue to play a significant role in transforming the industry, potentially unlocking $1.6 trillion to $2.6 trillion by 2025. […]
ACCIONA WILL BUILD ITS FOURTH DESALINATION PLANT IN SAUDI ARABIA
The Saudi publicly-owned company Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has awarded ACCIONA and its partner RTCC the construction of the Al Khobar 2 desalination plant at Khobar, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia around 400 kilometres from Riyadh. It is a turnkey contract valued at around $500 million (€460 million). The facility will be […]
Sustainability is the New Cryptocurrency
The Bitcoin technology has disrupted our view on money, but can it also truly change our approach to being sustainable? The “Rebound Effect” is a term used for explaining challenges in determining energy savings from efficiency. The effect has two components. The “direct rebound” is the percentage of energy savings from efficiency that are offset […]
