The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for free to the world’. You can see the first one highlighting the red panda here, and be sure to visit his [...]
Here is the second in a series I hope never ends – if only due to survival of the species. The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for [...]
Some of the articles I wrote for Gulf News have made it into a book on the weird and wonderful place that is Dubai. It’s author, Lorraine Ludman, will be discussing her book during a session at the 2012 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, on Friday 9th March at 1.30, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival [...]
I just can’t get the tune of this great little video teaser out of my head. Created by Sarita Mehra, a videographer extraordinaire based in the UAE with production experience for most of the movies filmed here including soon-to-be released Mission: Impossible 4 (Ghost Protocol), she made this video for thecarboncult.com. And I’m thrilled! Take [...]
In 2008 I was picked as a volunteer for a 12 week programme based in Madagascar. Three of us were selected to live amongst the villagers of Tsilamaha in the south, an area known for its spiny forest, listed as a special eco-region by WWF. Volunteers were required to help a local NGO that partnered [...]
Dubai is synching up with the rest of the world for 24 hours to talk about climate change denial and raise more awareness tonight. In this case, in Arabic. As part of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, 23 different presenters from around the world are going to present scientific data and research that explains why [...]
Environmentalists can be pretty scary – not just with their cardigans and jars of boiled fruits but with their poignant observations of the state of the planet, the doom and gloom and what not. It’s enough to turn anyone off. I came across this link though a TED talk by Adam Ostrow on the future of [...]
Finding a hotel with a dive centre is an important preoccupation mostly reserved for scuba divers. Some travellers will prioritise a spa, swimming pool or kids’ club. But if you want to dive, all day, every day of your holiday — like I do — then finding a dive resort that revolves around surface intervals [...]
I love this bike rack. Thanks to its funky design you could put it anywhere and watch it give the place or neighbourhood an instant boost. If people have a safe place to leave their bicycles, they will start using them and leaving the car at home. Asides from the eco factor, it just makes [...]
Can oranges fight grease? Well actually yes, along with other non toxic substances like lemons, baking soda or vinegar. Now a cleaning service in Dubai is tapping into this market, a perfect gimmick for the UAE which loves hiring house-help so much. The owner also runs the RAW organic coffee bar at Dubai Garden Centre [...]
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey, says there’s no such thing as trash, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started [...]
