A crash course in changing the world.
I decided to dedicate a part of my blog for your input about challenging food security and water scarcity, sustainable energy sources, empowering women and perserving Indigeneous Knowledge!
My thesis question is: what is the impact of tourism and how to promote a more sustainable travels?
I chose Sinai Peninsula in Egypt for a case study!
Why Sinai?? because it has biblical, has ancient history and is a World Heritage to perserve, it has a diversified ecology from wetlands, red…
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http://ccivs.org/New-SiteCCSVI/CcivsOther/culturalheritage/today-tomorrow.pdf
Unbeatable on heritage matters?…
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I created a program to fight poverty and social exclusion in my current city Barcelona. I am an architect who is intersted in building for people with limited resources and designing concepts that addresses societal problems as well as environmental. However, I feel challenged to raise awareness of other designers and architects on the impact of their design when those parameters are not taken into consideration. There are few…
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) and is among the…
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Before the industrial revolution in 1940's and before people had access to technological building materials as in steel and concrete, they used to build from local quarries/ wood or other depending on their resources and climate. they used to understand simple natural phenomenon as in the prevailing wind direction and sun orientation. you may tell me that you don't need to be an architect/engineer to note these simple observations, but…
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The importance of building codes was made evident in the weeks following the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. NOW’s Sarah Lynch reports on what Lebanon is doing about safety.
The disastrous earthquakes that recently shook Haiti and Chile came without warning. But their outcomes might lead one to believe otherwise. While Chile saw an earthquake 800 times stronger than that in Haiti, the damage was significantly less—something experts attribute to Haiti’s poor infrastructure.…
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The Boy Who Cried, “Wolf!”
or Why a Community-based Alert System is a good idea.
You must remember the story of a boy whose task was to watch a flock of…
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About Women Build
Women Build is Habitat’s volunteer program…
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Biblioteca Popular Francesca Bonnemaison
(Francesca Bonnemaison Public Library)
Sant Pere més Baix, 7
08003 Barcelona
Spain
Tel: +34 93 268 0107
Fax: +34 93 310 6401
E-mail (Correu electrٍnic): b.barcelona.fb@diba.es
The library was begun by Francesca Bonnemaison along with women members of St. Anna's parish. The library aimed at providing a service to young women, and soon incorperated a school for…
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This is a group photo taken in Bir Heddi in Tunisia during my fieldtrip visit with BaSiC Initative. I am the second person to the right and just to my left is the success story of a tunisian woman that thru FEDKR had recieved a micro loan to start her own husbandry. she started with like 7 goats and sheep. she used to live with her 4 children in 1 room and now she has over 50 goats and sheep and a house not less than 5…
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I have been an Expat for five years now travelling and living in many communities.Eventhough I tend to blend with locals , I still am very exposed to multi-cultural identities which indirectly teach me a lot of diverse aspects. Currently I am in spain with 10 other different nationational colleagues!
London, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, USA, Greece, Australia, Phillipines, Bangladesh, Spain and I am from Lebanon. So, I proposed that each one list his/her assets (that could be offered or shared)…
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