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Learn How to Have a More Energy Efficient Home
Clean energy is not exactly clean… It is cleaner. Cleaner than oil, cleaner than coal, and, depending on the point of view, cleaner than nuclear.
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Sustainability a Winter With Eedama
Can clean energy save the world? For once, we will start with the answer: No! Clean energy is not exactly clean… It is cleaner. Cleaner than oil, cleaner than coal, and, depending on the point of view, cleaner than nuclear. Most renewable energy sources are considered clean because they do not use any fuel, they…
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A Sustainable Winter with Eedama
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The Rise of Solar, The Fall of its Price, and How Eedama is Helping
Are you looking for some good news in the middle of the health crisis of a lifetime for each of the 8 billion humans on the planet? Here comes the sun! Photovoltaics solar energy has been on a mind-blowing cost-reduction trend in the last decades. The cost of solar photovoltaics (PV) modules, for instance, has…
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A Week About Sustainable Dubai – Day 5 – Green School Projects
The 5th and last day of this week on sustainability with Goumbook and GEMS World Academy ended with a half day full of practical work. The original plan was to learn more about alternative farming methods on this day such as permaculture and aquaponics, however, the students had lots of ideas for their school, so…
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A Week About Sustainable Dubai – Day 4 – Biodiversity And Water
Al Hafeiyah Mountain Conservation Centre Field Trip The week was approaching its end with already lots of information gathered and stories created but there was still a lot more to get through when talking about sustainability. 2 of the most pressing topics were to be addressed on this fourth day: biodiversity and water. We met…
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A Week About Sustainable Dubai – Day 3 – Energy And Design
The second field trip of the week was held at The Sustainable City. Eedama has had many field trips there and you could read more on our other blog articles here. This time, the city became fully functional with 80% residential occupancy! The students were very engaged as this group in particular always sought practical…
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A Week About Sustainable Dubai: Day 2 – Plastic Waste
Drop it! Plastic workshop hosted by Goumbook Day 2 was hosted at the school and started off with an introduction to plastic waste pollution and was followed by more information on the problem globally and locally by Goumbook. The presentation was focused on our ability as consumers to simply say no to using disposable plastic,…
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A week about Sustainable Dubai: Day 1 – Air pollution and Plant a Seed (Give a Ghaf)
In collaboration with Goumbook, Eedama designed, organized and implemented a Sustainable Dubai Week for the Week Without Walls Program at GEMS World Academy. The purpose of this program was to introduce students to some of the main components when speaking about environmental sustainability. We had a focus for every day of the week and we…