December 2008 was dominated by shoes and footprints. At an anti-government protest in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, Sirry Hjaltested said that her grocery bills had gone up by half …
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Environment
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Globally we are faced with unprecedented circumstances and the world is a significantly different place than it was a year ago. Because of this competitive and threatening environment, anxiety is …
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Sometime during the evening of Saturday, March 22, pipes from the Holcim cement factory in Chekka began leaking oil into the Mediterranean. Between one and two tons of oil …
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In recent years, Lebanon has been promised supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Egypt. This cheaper source of energy — a pressing need in light of the oil price …
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Why should the GCC consider investing in alternative energy? The Gulf nations have enough energy of their own for the foreseeable future, so why dismantle a lucrative and historic revenue …
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“Climate change? What climate change?” These are the twoquestions I often hear when I mention this issue to Arabofficials. If I insist, they get irritated and change thesubject. Others try …
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Damage to Lebanon’s ecology and agriculture due to the war with Israel amounts to over $400 million, according to research by Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment (MoE) and a recently published …
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Last month saw two major local cement producers, Holcim Lebanon and Cimenterie Nationale, both acquire an ISO 14001 accreditation – the International Standard Organization’s guideline for environmental management tools – …