The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for free to the world’. You can see the first one highlighting the red panda here, and be sure to visit his [...]
The Plastic Pollution Coalition visited the UAE last month and have posted about their trip and the groups and people they met here. I’m hoping for a longer report on their findings and hopefully some further collaboration. Plastic pollution in the UAE is diabolical. It’s everywhere and as much as street cleaners are deployed to [...]
Speaking with recent arrivals in Dubai, they are shocked (as was I) to see the use of plastic wrap for things like…bananas. Try as hard as we might it can sometimes be really hard to avoid plastic. It is thrust upon us at every cashier no matter the amount of items bought. The wrapped banana is [...]
Here is the second in a series I hope never ends – if only due to survival of the species. The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for [...]
Some of the articles I wrote for Gulf News have made it into a book on the weird and wonderful place that is Dubai. It’s author, Lorraine Ludman, will be discussing her book during a session at the 2012 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, on Friday 9th March at 1.30, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival [...]
The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. A dedicated environmental artist, I had the pleasure of working with Guillermo for several years in the UAE. He is now based in Beijing and I am in Paris but yet, the [...]
The aquarium team at the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai have successfully bred zebra sharks from a female shark but amazingly, without a male. All the details are in the article published in the Journal of Fish Biology but overall this means that the captive female produced 15 pups from eggs laid within the aquarium [...]
Sadly the ‘ecofont’ has been rated one of the ugliest fonts in a recent top 8 of the worst fonts. Surely there are 2 even worse fonts to a make it an all round top 10? Literary types and designers might agree it’s ugly but I think it’s a great way to save on ink when [...]
A 27m long bridge has been built over the River Tweed in Wales from 50 tons of recycled high-density polyethylene plastic that would have otherwise been buried in landfills. According to Vertech Composites, the UK-based firm that designed and built the bridge, the structure is able to support vehicles as heavy as 44 tons. And [...]
I just can’t get the tune of this great little video teaser out of my head. Created by Sarita Mehra, a videographer extraordinaire based in the UAE with production experience for most of the movies filmed here including soon-to-be released Mission: Impossible 4 (Ghost Protocol), she made this video for thecarboncult.com. And I’m thrilled! Take [...]
