The Solar Impulse made its debut at the 2011 Paris Airshow. The single-seater prototype aircraft, which is powered solely by the sun’s rays, and flew for 20 minutes at Bourget airport. The Solar Impulse has 10,000 solar cells which cover its 63m (207ft) wingspan and [...]
Egypt is in need of about 350,000 new housing units. Facing an increase of energy consumption in Egypt by more than 70 per cent since 1980 – 90 per cent of which come from fossil fuels -, resource efficient housing plays an important role. Furthermore, the use of fresh [...]
Simon Spagnoletti, an experienced product designer, has unveiled his new concept, Seahorse Buoys. The buoys with UAVs and sensor functions can be remotely operated via satellites generating real-time data. Buoys containing wave energy generation system eventually forms an oscillating magnetic field around [...]
A company in Spain has started producing household electricity from a solar power plant near Seville.The technology is called concentrated solar thermal energy, which means it uses heat from the sun to run steam turbine generators. And running it doesn’t generate any greenhouse gases. [...]
Designed by Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), 8 Tallet (or 8 House) is a progressive apartment complex that is conceived as a small neighborhood in itself. The complex is based on the concept of localizing services for residences.With 476 apartments, some of which boast private [...]
Global Water Dances is a bold visionary artistic initiative focused on the critical need for safe drinking water. Already today, there are an estimated 5 million deaths per year globally from polluted water. By 2025, over half the world’s population will be facing water-related [...]
Welcome to Orascom Development´s sustainability blog. Through this blog, we want to communicate relevant and up-to-date news as well as to provide the public with detailed information and offer the community the opportunity to interact with us. The blog assembles information regarding our sustainability mission and our various sustainable projects as well as illustrating [...]
City Compost Bin Turns Organic Trash into Rich Nutrient Soil Mathieu Azema, a French designer, has come up with the C/N Compost Bin that focuses on appearance and usability of city trash bins. Instead of asking urbanites to change their habits, the designer wants them to walk up to the bin – as they did [...]
The impression arises, that we have to deal with increasingly severe flood catastrophes on our planet. First Pakistan was hit and half the country submerged, and currently nearly the entire state of Queensland in Australia is affected. A link to global warming is being confirmed by a growing number of scientists, with a forecast for [...]
The first passive hotel in Europe, The Explorer Hotel in Oberstdorf/Austria, lives according to the sustainable economic principle: Minimise the loss of energy and maximise the energy gain. The passive hotel Explorer Hotel creates only 10% of the CO² emission of a conventionally built hotel of the same size. Energy gain profits through windows, heat [...]
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