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Beyond Magazine Issue 22 Winter 2017

Carrying guilt? The solution is in your hands

Words Alia Fawaz Single-use plastic bags are freely given out at supermarkets around the country.  If you are a regular grocery shopper, you amass a...

We’ll always have Paris Hope hinges on watershed agreement

Words Bassam Alkantar In December 2015, an agreement on climate change was reached in Paris, thanks to the skillfulness of French diplomacy. The Climate Agreement...

Disappearing Act America’s great scene stealers are at risk

Words Tamara Batshon When we think of national parks, we imagine wide-open spaces, lush forests, an abundance of wildlife, and snow-capped mountains safely protected from...

We’re in this together How to tackle the world’s issues sustainably

Words Ingmar Strum, Teodora Cakarmis, Victoria Hamdorf and Sania El Kadi The world today is in trouble. More than one-eighth of the world’s population goes...

Feeling as right as rain Farms report being showered with benefits

Words John Gray Mohammad Tayy, Farid Abou Merhim, and Souhail Awad had always used water pumped from artesian wells to irrigate their farms in Lebanon....

Lebanon Gets Real A roadmap to tackle climate change is already in place

Words Alia Fawaz Climate change is a leading global concern today. World leaders and climate change stakeholders regularly meet to set targets to reduce greenhouse...