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Najib
Jul 03, 2017 09:46
Beirut Planting Roofs is the latest experiment by Ziad Abichaker, The "Garbage King", where he's teaming up with the American University of Beirut to install vertical planters made out of Eco-board panels on a rooftop and use waste material to produce an edible crop. In simpler terms, here's what they did: - Use 12 vertical planting structures made from eco-boards, the equivalent of 10,600 plastic bags. - Used 1200 Kg of mature compost obtained from…
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Najib
Jul 02, 2017 02:09
Following the latest Burkini controversy, a summer resort in Zgharta is now allowing veiled women wearing Burkinis to swim on Tuesdays only. When asked by one of the readers on why it's only allowed on Tuesdays, they said: "The burkini swimsuit is new to our culture and not everyone accepts it for the time being, we just tried to do something and to help fix this problem, and like you know many many resorts in…
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Najib
Jul 02, 2017 11:14
Lifehaus is the first low cost fully self-sufficient project in the Middle East that is designed to lower the carbon footprint ​using upcycled, local materials and ancestral techniques. The founder and architect behind LifeHaus is Nizar Haddad who was driven by his interest in green architecture "to develop the LIFEHAUS project which revisits and applies multiple long forgotten ancestral building methods, employing the knowledge of masters to produce the most optimal, ecological, self-sufficient and economical…
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Najib
Jul 02, 2017 10:31
The Lebanese Army stormed two refugee camps in Arsal's outskirts and managed to arrest and kill several terrorists. The operation wasn't that easy as the first man they were looking for blew himself up, then four other militants blew themselves up but luckily no soldiers were killed in the process. Instead several soldiers were slightly injured. More than 30 terrorists and ISIS members were arrested so far in Arsal an another major terrorist and Ain…
Advertising
8 years ago
I noticed Al Rifai’s ads all over the billboards in the past few days and wasn’t sure if they were celebrating a milestone or sending out a message. I checked their Facebook page and they ...
Events
8 years ago
We were talking about summer festivals last week and someone mentioned that Wael Kfoury is performing in like 10 festivals, which is not quite common given how highly-rated and popular the singer is. But I ...
Art
8 years ago
Wednesday June 28th was the opening night for Beirut’s Cultural Festivals and the first screening of a “Journey Through Time”, the festival’s centerpiece and a true masterpiece. From the live orchestra, the script, the spectacular ...
Food
8 years ago
Even if you weren’t that familiar with the Broumana area, you only needed to follow the traffic and the lights yesterday to spot the newly open Roadster Diner & Zaatar w Zeit outlets. The new ...
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