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Beyond Magazine Issue 22 Winter 2017

WE CARE, THEREFORE WE ACT: LEBANON’S CORPORATE GREEN CONTRIBUTION

Today companies around the world are leading the way in green initiatives, adopting a wide range of admirable, in-house sustainability practices such as ambitious...

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...

See them before they disappear

Words John Gray Shishmaref, a remote Inupiate Eskimo village with a population of 650 people, has been identified as one of Alaska’s most eroded communities. ...

It’s Getting Hot in Here So let’s talk about sex

Words Bassam Alkantar Climate-warming temperatures might be expected to affect the sex ratio of species if sex determination is temperature-dependent. Several studies show that indirect...

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....