Tag: Dubai - Page 2
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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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Camel Milk Chocolate Bars are Sexy and Healthy and Strange
"Midnight at the oasis, send your camel to bed," was an oldie, and it's about to come back into its own as camel milk chocolate bars are soon to hit the scene. The benefits: they are organic, healthy and good for your sex life.
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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
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Scathing Article in the Independent on Dubious Dubai
It's not schadenfreude. After writing a couple of years worth of posts about dubious Dubai, it was painful to read Johann Hari's lengthy article in the Independent: The dark side of Dubai. It is merciless. He starts it
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Vertical Farm in Dubai Uses Seawater
A good rendering is a thing of beauty, and when it is of an amazing vertical farm, so much the better. Italian architects Studiomobile has developed a Seawater vertical farm to be built in Dubai.
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Bye, Bye, Dubious Dubai
That title sounds flip and "we told you so" but this is not cheap schadenfreude. The long boom could have built sustainable cities and sustainable jobs; instead we
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Dubious Dubai Redefines Long-Term Parking
They have a parking problem in Dubai: people are abandoning cars by the thousands at the airport as they leave. Evidently careers based on real estate and investing are in tatters and the expats are abandoning mortgages and
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Dubious Dubai Hits Pause Button
As John noted earlier, a dropping tide sinks all boats. Spiegel Online tells us that The Donald's hotel on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah island has been "postponed." A lot of other projects are tanking as well, perhaps bringing to an
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RIP: Dubai's Dream Falling With The Price Of Oil
TreeHugger has posted many times on Dubai's sometimes "green," sometimes wretchedly-excessive building boom (please pardon one last requiem use of the now much out-of-favor "green"). The boom is
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Dubai Flight Gets 6% Fuel Reduction, Saves 40,000 Pounds of CO2 and Calls it Green
Emirates Airline started a new route from Dubai to San Francisco, initiating a number of new features to help it reduce fuel use and
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Chill Out on Dubious Dubai's First Refrigerated Beach
It's hot in Dubai, averaging 40C (104F) and often hitting 50C (122F) in summer. Perhaps tourists visiting this desert locale don't check this out before they book their junket (or the rules about what you can do on the beach Green bikinis are okay,
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World's Longest Billboard Will Be 'Biodegradable' PVC
Vinyl is final, or at least we always used to think so. But advertising and marketing
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Mid-East's Largest Solar Panel Manufacturing Plant to be Built In Dubai
In an area of the world with no shortage of sunlight, awash in oil wealth (and being able to detect the way the cleantech wind is blowing...) and with a penchant of late of doing things to the n-th degree it should come as
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Dubious Dubai: Eco-Bling on the Anara Tower
What is that thing in the middle at the top of the proposed Anara tower in Dubai? In most of the renderings it looks like a wind turbine integrated into the building, but when you look closely (image below) you can see that the hub is inhabited and
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Seven Rotating Houses and Towers That Turn Our Crank
Passive solar through windows or active solar though hot water or photovoltaics work best when perpendicular to the sun. So cue up Paul McCartney's "I'll follow the sun" and see seven houses and towers that are
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Wretched Excess Dept.: Dubai Tower Has 57 Swimming Pools
Now under construction, 23 Marina sets a new bar for wretched excess: 57 of its 288 apartments have private swimming pools on the balconies. They are not huge at 5.2 meters (17 feet) by 2 meters (6-1/2 feet) but multiply that by 57 and you have a lot of
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My Phallic Symbol is Bigger than Yours
These photos of the Burj Dubai skyscraper (tallest structure on Earth at 636 meters (2,087 ft), with 160 completed floors) pretty much speaks for themselves (high resolution here), but for more on Dubai, see our Dubious Dubai series of
