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District S is a neighborhood development project located in Beirut, Lebanon, that employs green planning and design principles in architecture, materials, mobility, and energy and water consumption. The development of the neighborhood adopts the premise that environmentally sustainable communities will offer residents and visitors a better quality of life and health. District S qualifies Lebanon as the fifth country worldwide to apply the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system to neighborhood development (ND), endorsing green living on a lifecycle basis. District S will be the first sustainable neighborhood in Lebanon, the Arab world, and the Mediterranean basin, according to LEED-ND. ...more |
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Little did BankMed employees know that one day they would be setting the trend for a company – a bank nevertheless - to turn philanthropic. And little did administrators realize that a small idea to support a few environment projects would end up a permanent feature in their company.
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While a number of countries slid into a deep recession in 2008, Lebanon witnessed spectacular economic growth. Over the last few years, not only trendy downtown Beirut but other parts of the country, too, have seen a major construction boom. ...more |
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The world is now discovering new means to meet the growing demands for energy, to fight climate change. And “Waste-to-energy” (WtE) is the slogan, which is a sustainable waste management paradigm and at the same time a renewable energy generator with proven success stories. ...more |
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Green growth was formally launched as a development paradigm of a nation for the first time internationally when President Lee Myung-bak declared it to be the main pillar of Korea’s new development vision in his speech on August 15, 2008, marking the 60th anniversary of the Republic. In this speech, President Lee explained that: ...more |
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Over eight hundred delegates from all over the world converged in South Korea’s vibrant capital, Seoul, for the annual World Consulting Engineering Conference of the International Federation of Consulting Engineer’s (FIDIC) this past September. The conference was an open invitation to industry professionals from over 67 countries to engage in this year’s theme: Beyond Green: A New Paradigm. ...more |
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The 2nd Global Green Growth Forum, which took place in October in Copenhagen, brought together 250 business, public and civil society leaders committed to advancing inclusive green growth. ...more |
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With traffic that is probably worse than Beirut’s and noise from its peculiar modes of transportation (jeepneys and trikes), the rush of Manila can get to be too much. After about two weeks of dealing with the hazards found in the capital, it was decided by my friends and me to head out of metro Manila for the weekend and into the wilderness of the Philippines. Batad was our destination, a village surrounded by nature in Northern Luzon, and a 10 hour bus trip from metro Manila.
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Outside the borders of Riocentro, where the official document of Rio+20 was produced, the debate of sustainable development was propagated by people´s voice in more than one hundred side events
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As in Copenhagen, the last weekend before the arrival of Heads of State and Government, the final document for Rio +20, The Future We Want, still had many loopholes and unanswered questions. Brazil then took further negotiations in hand, speeding up the tempo and offering to agree on a less ambitious document. ...more |
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