In these articles Fady considers the challenges we face and examines the policies, technologies, approaches being utilized. He'll also talk to the people involved in formulating the solutions and making a difference - both from within Abdul Latif Jameel, Community Jameel and from industry, science and academia.
November 23, 2023
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Dubai, UAE
10 mins
We are traditionally taught that our landscape designations are a binary choice: we have the grey-brown smudge of our urban-industrial cityscapes, or the green pastels of our countryside. Two sides at perpetual ambient and visual odds. And yet, what if the urban-rural partition wasn’t such a zero-sum game? What if a middle way – some urban-wild hybrid – was not only within the realms of our ingenuity, but already flourishing in pilot projects internationally?
November 16, 2023
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10 mins
Anyone who has peered over the edge into the caldera of an active volcano will know that there is a lot of latent power there. Every so often, we get a glimpse of it. When Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815, it was some ten times more powerful than the more famous 1883 Mt. Krakataou (Krakatoa)[1] and blew out a cloud of sulfate so massive it engulfed the Earth. It cooled temperatures and disrupted weather patterns to such as extent there was widespread crop failure and famine was rife.
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