Center for Sustainable Development

Type: Organization

Name: Center for Sustainable Development

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Along came Reshma

Photo: ReutersWhen the planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, I was tucked away in one corner of the Midwest, where the only previous Bengalis included Humayun Ahmed and a steady stream of engineers, the latter being our chief export, followed ... [Published Bdnews24.com - May 19 2013]

Entities: Twin Towers, Humayun Ahmed, Center for Sustainable Development, Resilience, Ramu (Bangladesh)

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Dubai’s skyscrapers could become towering infernos

High rise towers are seen near the Dubai Marina. — ReutersDUBAI — New skycrapers popping up in Dubai are feared to pose dangers to their occupants as they are covered with aluminum facades, which are highly inflamable, Fox News said on Friday.“Shiny, ... [Published Saudi Gazette - May 03 2013]

Entities: Dubai, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Center for Sustainable Development

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Tamweel PJSC

Experts fear Dubai's skyscrapers could become towering infernos

Feb. 7, 2012: High rise towers are seen near the Dubai Marina in Dubai.ReutersShiny, new skyscrapers are popping up along Dubai’s skyline, but building experts fear that one of them could become a towering inferno.Thom Bohlen, chief technical officer ... [Published FOXNews.com - May 02 2013]

Entities: Dubai, Sharjah, Flammable, Center for Sustainable Development, Tamweel PJSC

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Green League

The Green League

At College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, students study just one topic: human ecology, or how our species interacts with the planet. Administrators practice what they teach. The campus is the first nationwide to become carbon neutral, thanks in ... [Published Poder 360 - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Green League, Sustainable Design, Sustainability

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Farm Tour Diaries: Costa Rica

Rainforest on the grounds of a Costa Rica flower farmPHOTOGRAPHY: Anna ClarkIt’s pouring rain, and together with farmers and their families and fellow journalists, I’m huddled in a shelter open to wet gusts of wind. In the growing dark, candles are lit ... [Published Vegetarian Times Magazine - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Costa Rica, Certification, Rainforest Alliance, Passiflora edulis

Quotes

"[The facades] are good-looking, long-lasting and easy to maintain, but they have one big problem -- they burn rapidly" he said

Experts fear Dubai's skyscrapers could become towering infernos [Published FOXNews.com - May 02 2013]

...sustainability scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Chair of Sustainable Practices, and teaching faculty member in the School of Sustainability at ASU. "Gary possesses exactly the combination of skills, experience and intellectual curiosity to lead the Institute,” said Julie Ann Wrigley, co-chair of the GIOS Board of Directors. “As a former global business executive, member of the GIOS Board of Directors and leader of ASU LightWorks Initiative, a better leader could not have been chosen at this point in the development of the Institute.”"

Gary Dirks, Director of Arizona State University’s LightWorks and... [Published PRWeb - Mar 14 2013]