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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,…
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Solar electricity is not only cheaper … It is becoming cheapest!
When even the Belgian renewable energy magazine Renouvelle starts its latest edition with “La production photovoltaïque coûte moins cher que le nucléaire” … (Solar photovoltaic electricty is cheaper than nuclear electricity) … Change is in the air. Belgium, despite its long summer days, is not particularly famous for having sun. Of course daylight is there,…
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Compost in the desert
One of the topics we work on at eedama is food: many of us wonder what we are exactly eating. Food travels all around the world, and fertilizers and pesticides are often heavily used to produce it. Although … we know that transport account for a very important part of greenhouse gases, that in turn…
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We are recruiting: Nous cherchons un collaborateur occasionnel
Le 7 décembre 2015 L’entreprise et centre de formation eedama cherche, dans le cadre de ses activités aux Emirats arabes unis, un collaborateur ou une collaboratrice occasionnelle. Profil : Parfaitement francophone. L’anglais et l’arabe sont des plus. Intérêt pour le développement durable, l’écologie, l’environnement et les énergies renouvelables. Un diplôme universitaire. La personne…