Thumbs up Bikfaya Biclean helps one municipality take the lead by example
Words Bassam Alkantar
The Lebanese government has said that it will temporarily reopen a landfill and build three new landfills to ease an eight-month rubbish...
Plants I.Q.
Words Alia Fawaz
Plants dominate every terrestrial environment, composing ninety-nine per cent of the biomass on earth. By comparison, humans and all the other animals...
Hitting the top notes
Words Alia Fawaz
Heartbeat is a Lebanese NGO that was founded in 2005 by a group of doctors and musicians with big hearts to help...
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, who in his later years became increasingly passionate about plants; and his son Francis thought of the plant as a kind of...
The only way is out
Words Bassam Alkantar
Seven months ago, the authorities shut the main landfill site (Naameh) for garbage from the capital, without providing an alternative. Since then, rubbish...
Driving the lesson home
Words Sawsan Abou Fakhreddine
The project’s name, “THE 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) MOBILE SCHOOL,” encapsulates its main idea: spreading awareness in different regions through the...