So this year’s topic for Blog Action Day is CLIMATE CHANGE. And I think that if you’re an adult and still need someone to explain this issue to you, then we -the whole world- are in big trouble. That’s why I’ll skip the lectures, explaining, and preaching and will simply BEG YOU ALL reading this blog [...]

The Preparatory Commission of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has named Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, as the interim headquarters of IRENA while Bonn, in Germany, will host IRENA’s centre of technology and innovation and Vienna, Austria, will be home to the Agency’s liaison office for cooperation with other organisations [...]

It’s such a shame that there are only a few Arab countries on the list of EARTH HOUR participants. I hope that every Arab individual will help spread environmental awareness and help get more and more people in the country he’s/ she’s living in to participate in Earth Hour, so that our countries will be [...]

Although known for its care for the environment and its work to help protect it, environmental experts accused the giant coffee chain Starbucks of pouring millions of litres of precious water down the drain at its coffee shops, or to be more precise, 23.4 million litres of clean water a day, which would provide enough daily water [...]

Just came across this: 5o Ways to Help the Planet [Via: EnlargeYourPen]. Which is a webproject by Wire & Twine. The listed points are so simple, straight-forward, and really easy to follow and implement. I also found their shirts extremely cool!

This is one sad, sad picture: [Source: Palestine Monitor] A picture capturing the destruction of huge amounts of trees on the road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem for so-called security reasons!!

In our part of the world environment has definitely witnessed a lot of changes, negative ones, due to global warming, WAR, and the annoying ignorance of many Arabs. One can still see people throwing garbage out their car windows; a study showed that Arabs alone throw away around 25 billion plastic bags on daily basis! [...]

AquaCool will be participating in Blog Action Day, October 15th. Bloggers from all around the globe will post about the environment in an attempt to spread awareness and show support to this very important cause. You can also Get Involved.

I still can’t believe I didn’t wear my winter jacket except for once! I can’t imagine that I didn’t have my and my husband’s winter clothes taken out of storage and put in the closet until my husband had to leave to Europe! Ice melting here and there! Creatures dying every now and then! Ah! [...]

I’ve been trying to reach some friends in Palestine and Lebanon, and I must say that those who were able to reply to my emails, got me in the real picture, a horrible one, I may add. In Lebanon, and besides the thousands that left the country, thousands are fleeing the capital elsewhere, leaving behind [...]