In the first week of October, experts from around the world met at the third World Resources Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where they discussed issues regarding sustainability and resource efficiency.
The Turkana people in Kenya have a new claim to fame. Rather than being the face of famine in the dustbowls of Africa, they struck oil, and in a big way in 2012.
Essential to all life, phosphor glows in the dark and is found in bones and teeth. We need it in our food in order to survive, we need it in our fields to grow food. And we are running out of it.
Tracking the CO2 footprint of a smartphone today is a complex task, so sustainability experts have been turning to more comprehensive methods such as the Life Cycle Assessment. But is that enough?
An interview with Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, “Resources Guru” and co-president of the Club of Rome.
Responsible travel that contributes to the conservation of the environment and the well being of local people – ecotourism sounds great. However, the problems faced by the kinds of ecosystems and communities that ecotourism proponents set out to “save” are often very complex, and seldom are there any quick-fix solutions.
Most of the food in Abu Dhabi’s tourist sector is imported. At the large scale that is needed for all of the hotels’ operations, it is difficult to get it locally. Still, a lot of food goes to waste. Sanaa Iqbal Pirani, a researcher on food waste management at the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, talks about the ways to change that.
With 5,000 acres of land being set aside to put up Kenya’s most ambitious infrastructure project to date, the construction of Africa’s “Silicon Savannah” is set to begin. Konza Techno City is a planned sustainable, world class global technology hub aimed at attracting international businesses and residents. One question, though: Will it work?
In the city of Cotonou, most drivers of the numerous motorbike taxis known as “Zémidjans” in the local language phon have a strange accessory to their uniforms: they wear sleeping masques (the kind one gets in planes) over their mouths.
Walking through the Swedish woods near the village Harads and the Lule river you might chance upon what resembles an oversized bird’s nest.