Tag: Dubai
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Barcelona to Build First Carbon-Neutral Indoor Ski Slope in 2015
Barcelona wants to build an indoor carbon-neutral ski dome, taking waste energy from the gas industry to cool the hall and using renewable energy to power the rest... fact or fiction? Eco-friendly or greenwashing?
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Dubai's Huge 1 GW Solar Power Project Will Take 18 Years To Build
We haven't seen a project announced of this size in some time, though a couple years ago a number were proposed and then fell apart in one way or another. At least in the Middle East though serious large-scale solar power projects are still on the table.
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Powered by Public Art: 10 Stunning "Aesthetic Power Plants" for Abu Dhabi and Dubai
An intriguing competition that calls for art that generates power is coming to New York.
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Solar Powered Toilets Sprout in Dubai
Between enthusing about the solar boom in the UK, and raving about portable composting toilets, it's fair to say that poop and power are two of my favorite topics. Now hear comes a story that combines the two nicely. Dubai—which is already
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Land Art Meets Clean Energy In 5,000 MWh-Generating Desert Sculpture
Contrary to popular belief, green energy doesn't have to be ugly, so it's encouraging when we see architects, landscape designers, artists, engineers and scientists working together to transform large projects that could be
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Solar Air Powered Air Conditioning Comes To Dubai
Doesn't look like much from the top; ESAB building, from Construtionweekonline digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/solar-powered-air-conditioning-dubai.php';One of the reasons we have been so dubious about Dubai is the energy consumption
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Free Sammy! Whale Shark in Dubai Aquarium Should Be Freed
Dubai's aquariums can't catch a break. First one in a mall cracks at the seams and now the one at the Atlantis The Palm hotel has come under fire for continuing to
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Dubai Skyscraper Is One Giant Wind and Solar Generator
Images: Studied Impact It's hard to fathom much of the news from Dubai, especially when it comes to architecture. Then again, this city of excess has delivered some astonishing structures, including, of course, the world's tallest building. So it with a
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Manatee Cousins in Mideast Face Uncertain Future
It must have required many lonely months out to sea to mistake this face only a mother could love for that of a fair maiden, but encounters with dugongs are indeed said to have
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When Does Energy Independence Meme Become Xenophobia? (Video)
I may get stick from those who want to paint all greenies as liberal, PC zealots for this one, but what the heck. I've started so I'll finish.
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'Aesthetic Power Plants' to Make Energy from Art
The United Arab Emirates have made their wealth from oil, a fossil fuel environmentalists are trying to consign to the past, but if two American
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Burj Dubai, Renamed Burg Khalifa, Opens With A Bang
Genesis 11:4: 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves"
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The Lessons of Dubai
It's hard to believe that anyone was really that shocked last month when Dubai's real estate bonanza finally collapsed. For
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Saudi 'Solution' to Traffic Jams: No Foreign Drivers
From instituting traffic calming measures to building metrobus systems, there are plenty of ways to ease congestion on the roads. But radio
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Best of Inhabitat: The World's Tallest Green Buildings
Can you figure out which former world's tallest building lost its title to the Burj Dubai, but has now found a way to stay afloat in the battle of the superlatives by revamping itself as the world's tallest green building?
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Green Prophet's Top 7 Mideast Eco-Tourism Spots
From historic rivers to the world's largest desalination plant, from a futuristic city to a 100-year-old tree-planting
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Dubai Vaporware: Buildings "Under Construction" Don't Exist
Finally, a green project in Dubai; as these construction photos attest, it is working its way up to the sky. But it consumes no resources, no concrete or fossil fuels or electricity. That's because it doesn't exist. The
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World's Heaviest Energy Users Try to Lighten Up
In the energy-profligate United Arab Emirates--the country with the world's largest per-capita ecological footprint, more than five times higher than the global average--a few lone
