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Beyond Magazine Issue 20 Spring 2016

Once upon a time in Rotterdam: a floating forest

Words John Gray    Photography Olivier Scheffer In today’s urbanized environments we all strive to make our spaces greener.  Whether it’s creating garden landscapes and...

Intelligence

“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems and plants are amazingly good in solving their problems.” Stefano Mancuso

Turning off the light to make a difference

Words Jihan Seoud and Alia Fawaz The Earth Hour is a worldwide movement.  This year, 170 countries including 1,200 landmarks  and close to 40 UNESCO world heritage...

Deeply moving

Words Louis Parks     Photography Jason Decaires Taylor / Cact Lanzarote A remarkable collection of underwater sculptures highlights the dangers that are faced by...

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...

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...