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  • The Wave, Muscat adopts sustainable development practices

    Matt Reynolds, Atkins Supervising Senior Landscape Architect at The Wave, Muscat, provides an insight on how a few initiatives can make the hard and soft landscaping both sustainable and environment friendly.
    ‘The landscape designers (Landscape Designs LLC, Oman) have focused on providing a landscape treatment that minimizes the use of water through a selection of gravels, [...]

  • Eco-friendly redeveloping

    Englewood – This community built around the water plans to transform its downtown into a statewide model for urban redevelopment that puts a stopper on polluted storm runoff.
    read more @ the SOURCE: Eco-friendly redeveloping | HeraldTribune.com | Southwest Florida’s Information Leader.

  • 4,500 sign up to Dubai car sharing scheme - ArabianBusiness.com

    More than 4,500 people have joined a new scheme to ease congestion on Dubai’s roads, it has been announced.
    The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said the number of subscribers to its carpooling service, known as ‘Sharekni’, has exceeded 4,525 - just one month after launching this service.
    SOURCE: ArabianBusiness.com – 4,500 sign up to Dubai car [...]

  • Nests destroyed to curb seagulls - Scotsman.com News

    Seagull nests will be destroyed under plans to tackle aggressive birds in towns and cities, it was revealed.
    Environment minister Michael Russell outlined plans to destroy nests and discourage breeding on a visit to Dumfries, a town he said had a long-standing gull problem.

    SOURCE: Nests destroyed to curb seagulls - Scotsman.com News.

  • Wastewater fears for urban farms

    Urgent action is needed to remove pollutants from urban wastewater, which is often used in cities to grow food, an international study has warned.
    Data collected by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) found that 85% of cities discharged the water without any appropriate treatment.
    read more @ the SOURCE: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Wastewater [...]

  • Environment-friendly Olympic Village granted LEED gold award-Xinhua

    Chen Zhili, head of the Beijing Olympic Village, received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold award here on Wednesday presented by the U.S. Green Building Council.
    On behalf of the council, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson honored the award to Chen, who is also vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the [...]

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