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If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

"the car was not an object of emancipation but of servitude. I could do nothing without my car"

جمعية حماية البيئة من التلوث جمعية غير هادفة للربح تعمل على دعم ومساندة جامعي القمامة في مدينة القاهرة أي فئة "الزبالين" تحديدا. وتسعى الجمعية إلى مساعدة تلك الفئة المهمشة في الأخذ بطرق مبتكرة لتحسين بيئتها ورفع مستوى معيشتها في الوقت نفسه.

Egypt is near completion of one of the world’s largest solar energy installations.

Company that collects electronic waste for recycling

Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it's gone

London yesterday launched an attempt to become the first city in the world to be lit by LEDs – light-emitting diodes. The city aims to install LEDs in all its street lights within five years.

Air pollution threatens health in Beirut http://is.gd/aIff2m

اللواء محمد عبد الفضيل انت مرفود للسماح للصيادين بالصيد داخل محمية رأس محمد http://is.gd/ZQlBWx #saverasmohamed

We have a duty to base our judgments on the best available information. This is not only because we owe it to other people to represent the issues fairly, but also because we owe it to ourselves not to squander our lives on fairytales. A great wrong has been done by this movement. We must put it right.

Look at number 1.

In Hansen's view, dealing with climate change allows no room for the compromises that rule the world of elected politics. "This is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill," he said. "On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can't say let's reduce slavery, let's find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%."

This is one big free trash dive. Interesting. Watch the video.

Effects of shrimp farming on the environment and humanitarian situation of these farms.

whoa .. this is a must read.

Even if you sat at home flushing the toilet all day long, it would still waste less water than the rearing and butchering of one pound of rib eye. Which means the number one thing you can do to have a smaller water-wasting footprint is to consume less beef, specifically, and meat in general.

rice burn acreage was shown to have a small but statistically significant effect on asthma morbidity in Butte County

egyptian study on the black cloud: rice straw burning 42% vehicles exhaust 23% industrial emissions 23% .. mentions thermal inversion

Rice Straw Burning Phase-down Law over 10 years .. Today, rice growers may only burn a maximum of 25 percent of their fields and only when significant levels of disease are present.

air pollution is responsible for an average of 3400 deaths each year in Cairo. Air pollution

A new fishing law now prohibits shark fishing.

زراعة حوالي 400 فدان في مرحلته الاولى بنبات "الجاتروفا" الصحراوي والذي سيتم استخراج الزيت منه وتحويله الى وقود حيوي في المصفاة التي تقام لهذا

a report published last month by Egypt's environment ministry.

arabic enviro news