Tag: sustainability

Head-to-toe sustainable beach style

Add a sunhat—preferably made from raffia, wheat straw, or seagrass—and a pair of upcycled shades, and you’re golden! Just like the sun intended.

AI and the Accelerate 2050 conference

But when it comes to AI, we need some kind of global consensus on a couple of things: what do we define is "good" for the planet, and what do we want the future to look like? Global leaders are coming together these questions and fresh challenges and opportunities in AI.

IBM’s sustainability software Envizi uses AI to green GHG gap

IBM helps companies meet sustainability goals with AI-based GHG reporting software.

Nullker: A Sustainable Global Community where “ECO” stands for Ecology as much as Economy 

Translated into the language of economy, the revolutionary way lies through uniting the already existing environmental effort and channeling it in a manner that would enrich all the parties involved: business, communities, and nature.

Can you power wood stoves with olive wood pellets?

(Example of a pellet stove from Canada, and the chips and pellets they burn). Pellet stoves take condensed biological matter...

The best environmental photographs in the world

Picture what happens when the world's only independent, chartered organization dedicated to achieving a sustainable world teams up with...

Israel’s environmental revolution starts with greening the Knesset

Last year, Israel's parliament announced plans to run entirely off solar energy by the end of 2014, but it...

Estidama Is the Arab World’s Sustainability Rating System: Watch Films on Estidama

These films shown below show the basics of the Estidama Pearl rating system unique to the Abu Dhabi region. We've...

Islam and Sustainable Development, A Book Covering These New Worldviews

Odeh Al-Jayoussi creates a  great guidebook on Islam and sustainable development, although it's a little overambitious in its reach at...

Welcome 2013 at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week

Kick off the new year with Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week to be held January 13 through 17. The world’s leading...

Jerusalem Gets New Environment Science Study Center

A new 2,000-square-meter facility in Jerusalem will be devoted to the study of sustainability. It will be an academic institution...

We’d Need Five Worlds to Live Like the United Arab Emirates

If we all lived like the citizens of the UAE, we would need 5.4 planet earths to sustain us... Sometimes...