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Abu Dhabi's annual leadership prize in renewable energy and sustainability is upping the stakes 2013. Expanding to five categories, the total purse for the annual Zayed Future Energy Prize prize has also increased to $4 million, making it the world's most financially lucrative award for renewable energy and ... keep reading
Written by Tim Hurst in July 2012, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Design, Events, Green energy, Solar
The launch of the International Water Summit was announced collaboratively today by the Abu Dhabi government, Masdar and the International Water Association, providing a global platform to discuss and find solutions to the global challenges of water scarcity and security. The inaugural summit will take place alongside the World Future ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in January 2012, about Climate Change, Consumerism, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Industry & Business, Population, Water
Zayed Future Energy Prize – awarded annually to large corporations, individuals, small businesses and non-governmental organizations that have made significant contributions to the future of energy, climate change and sustainability – today announced its 2012 awards winners from the World Future Energy Summit, distributing US$3.5 million to winners and runners-up ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in January 2012, about Climate Change, Events, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Poverty & Development, Smart Growth
Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki Moon has set three objectives for his his new Sustainable Energy for All Initiative to be achieved by 2030: ensure universal access to modern energy services; double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and double the share of renewable energy in the global ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in January 2012, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Emissions, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Politics & Government
Tripbase Travel have looked at a a number of green places to visit .We start this with their most eco-friendly country, Iceland Iceland The environmental Performance Index scrutinizes the world's nations on both their ecosystem vitality and their environmental public health. From 11th place in 2008, Iceland rocketed straight ... keep reading
Written by Tripbase in October 2011, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Green energy, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution, Population, Smart Growth, Travel
United Arab Emirates Assistant Foreign Minister Ahmad al-Jabir, special envoy for energy affairs and climate change, and chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), has urged oil-exporting nations "to formulate a comprehensive energy strategy focusing on conventional, nuclear, and renewable energy." In an extraordinary appeal to fellow ... keep reading
Written by Joao Peixe in September 2011, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Politics & Government, Solar
It probably won’t surprise Celsias readers to learn that concern about global warming has tapered off in the United States. That country, after all, just went through the sort of financial crisis that portends another Great Depression when it saw its credit rating downgraded for the first time in ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in September 2011, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Pollution
We couldn’t help but pay attention to the unbelievably eco friendly plans of Masdar City when the UAE unveiled it’s concept back in 2008. Now Treehugger reports that Masdar City has begun rolling out it’s Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) system, albeit at a more reduced scale than ... keep reading
Written by Stephen Fortune - PSFK in January 2011, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Design, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Smart Growth, Transport, Travel (2 comments)
2011 World Future Energy Summit to feature a cutting edge global exchange of ideas during January 19th "Masdar Digital Dialogue" in Abu Dhabi It's not that often that I get a chance to co-host a world party. But that is exactly what is happening on January 19, 2011 when ... keep reading
Written by Timothy B. Hurst in January 2011, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Education, Events, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior
"I want my country to know how advanced you are in pursuing clean renewable energy. I want the world to know that the US is partnering with you because we are betting on Abu Dhabi and the UAE" — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton On the second stop of ... keep reading
Written by Timothy B. Hurst in January 2011, about Climate Change, Economics, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
The most powerful man in Abu Dhabi has hired architects to design a zero-carbon city. He wants it to be free of cars, free of skyscrapers, and entirely powered by the sun. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is the President of the United Arab Emirates and the ... keep reading
Written by Jake de Grazia in March 2010, about Architecture, Children and Families, Climate Change, Design (2 comments)
In Spain, German scientists working for Solar Millennium AG, an international installer of solar thermal plants with headquarters in Germany, has developed a revolutionary power plant. Called Andasol 1, the plant produces energy from sunlight. More importantly, it can produce this energy even when the sun isn't shining, thanks ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in April 2009, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Design, Green energy, Industry & Business, Solar (6 comments)
Its motto is "Believe Realize Succeed Sustain". Its associations include a Sultan, General Electric Rolls-Royce and MIT. Its name means ‘the source'. It purports to be the world's first zero carbon, zero waste city and it's located in the United Arab Emirates, 11 miles from Abu Dhabi. It ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in February 2009, about Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Industry & Business (2 comments)
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