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Environmental negotiations are only a first step, necessary but not enough
Climate negotiations are starting today in Paris. Negotiators, politicians and experts from the whole world will mainly discuss about how to go on polluting while keeping the global warming below 2 degrees. At no point the possibility of actually mitigating global warming will be discussed. A huge responsibility lies on the shoulders of the negotiators…
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Some great initiatives in the USA…
GRID Alternatives, Inland Empire and SunPower kick off national education partnership with local K-14 students. See here!
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Wanna know more about the upcoming COP21?
Check this out! …and ask us about our workshop on Climate Change!
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Stuck in the desert? Desalinate water with a cooking pot!
The Doha Summer Camp is organised every summer for a couple of weeks before the school starts or after the school ends. Last August, eedama was invited to participate with two scientific experiments for the kids. We chose to show them that a lot can be done without plugging any device in any electrical plug: we…
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Would you drink toilet water?
Sounds kind of gross, doesn’t it? Even if the toilet was never used? That’s the question raised by an installation at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, USA. It’s also a not-so-silly question for those of us who live in the Gulf, where 99% of our water is saline, and thus unfit for drinking. But wait,…
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Well done Dubai!
Dubai is on track to achieve a 3GW project. Congratulations! As a comparison, the biggest project ever built today is Solar Star in California and consists of 580 MW. GW projects are game-changers in the energy generation landscape. The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is very active in solar and is paving the way…
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Will new energies be renewable?
What are new energies? Which one of them are renewable? Is our future really greener? Discover some of the answers in the next weeks … here on the eedama blog!
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Hello world!
Welcome to eedama’s blog. We’ll regularly share here news related to the environment and sustainability. We’ll also tell you about fun experiments to do.