Posts filed under 'Nature & Environment'

Help The Planet in 50 Easy Ways

15 July 2008

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!

Distortion

07 November 2007

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!!

Blog Action Day; In The Arab World…

15 October 2007

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! one […]

Blog Action Day!

24 August 2007

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.

The Burning Globe

21 February 2007

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 […]

The Bleeding Middle East…

25 July 2006

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 their […]

LifeStraw, a life-saver

25 January 2006

About half of the world’s poor suffer from waterborne diseases, of which over 6,000 – mainly children – die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water.
Today, more than one billion people of the world’s population are without access to safe water.
Knowing all this, one can’t but bee thrilled to hear about LifeStraw®, a personal, low-cost […]

Monster Hurricane…Katrina!

04 September 2005

Every morning, before heading to work, I turn on TV to news channels to know what’s the situation like now in the regions being hit by Hurricane Katrina… or the Monster Hurricane as it’s called.Whenever I try to write something about it I find myself left with no words strong enough to express my feelings […]

Redback Spiders in UAE

25 May 2005

Residents in Dubai have been reporting the presence of the redback spiders in their homes and gardens. According to AME Info, residents are concerned that a lack of availability of antivenom for the poisonous redback spider is endangering lives.
The redback spider -scientifically known as “latrodectus hasselti“- is native to Australia and it is thought […]

WED 05 Photo Gallery

09 May 2005

The Syrian Red Crescent Organization, Homs Branch invites photographers from all around the world, amateur or professional, to participate in its 2005 World Environment Day Photo Gallery which will be exhibited in the Museum of Azzehrawi Palace, Homs 5-9 June 2005.Closure date is May 20, 2005 and there is no participation fee.For more details […]