Author: ounsi
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Regent school students visit The Sustainable City
After a preparation that took some time (as you might remember), and despite the fact that the City is not yet fully functional, we took Year 4 students from Regent International School to The Sustainable City. They could see a number of features that make this City a unique urban planning experiment in Dubai. They…
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An informative day: Reducing, reusing and recycling
Waste management is one of the most important environmental issues the world and its governments are facing. When it comes to people, many of us know that waste is a problem, but don’t have a clear idea of what to do to solve it. We, for example, mix sometimes Recycle and Reuse. Is using the…
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In a reed bed, you don’t sleep… you drink!
In a reed bed, you don’t sleep… you drink! Water treatments ponds are a completely natural way of treating waste sewage water. Instead of going through physic-chemical filtering and reactions, the water goes through filtering through the roots of reeds, as well as through some layers of gravels and stones. The Company Reed…
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Organic plants that grow by fish… in the desert?
Aquaponics is the marriage of aquaculture and hydroponics. Hydroponics is the cultivation of plants with their roots immersing in water without soil. Aquaculture is the raising of aquatic animals such as fish, snails or prawns. This system can work at home, in the desert, in an arid mountain, anywhere! So let’s say you’re at home,…
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When kids’ eyes shine: A solar oven made from a pizza box
How to help kids understand the difference between fossil fuels and solar energy? Between Renewable and Non-Renewable energy? We already used a number of times the solar oven made from a pizza box experiment. So friends: How do you usually cook a pizza? In an oven… That is heated by burning natural gas or using…
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Aquaponics Workshop
Learn how to keep your basil and mint fresh and organic without having to water them! Do you know that you can have fishes feed your plants and plants clean your fishes’ water? This can happen thanks to aquaponics: the marriage of aquaculture (raising fishes) and hydroponics (putting plants in direct contact with water in…
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When Students Become Scientific Journalists – Quand les élèves deviennent journalistes scientifiques… Visiting Masdar City with the Lycée Français International Privé – Dubai
We took approximately 400 students from one of the AFLEC schools in Dubai to Masdar City. These were fun students, laughing, discussing, debating, even sometimes dancing! Some of them had a mission: make a kind of journalistic feedback… And they produced amazing documents! We asked if we could share them with our readers, and they…
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Feed your plants with your leftovers: Workshop in Dubai on Monday March 21st
Workshop at The Change Initiative, Barsha, Dubai (Google Map link). • What if you never had to throw away food again? • We propose a fun workshop that will allow your house to go green, while educating your kids • Let us take you through a journey towards sustainability… And you will grow your own…
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We’ll be at the Sharjah Go Green camp!
A green camp for the youth of Sharjah Emirate: way to go!
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Dubai? Sustainable? A visit to the Sustainable City in Dubailand
Many probably think that these two words cannot be associated. Dubai is built in the desert, it is made of high glass towers where the greenhouse effect is experienced every single moment, and cars are kings and queens of its streets! Well… all this is true, but many other facts tend to mitigate these statements,…