Egypt: Learning and earning in Cairo’s Garbage City
14,000 tons. That is the official estimate amount of daily waste produced in the mega-city of Cairo. But the city authorities cannot cope with the amount thus creating a serious waste management problem. Consequently, Cairo relies heavily on informal waste…
Egypt: Learning and earning in Cairo’s Garbage City
In the next 2 years, greener hotels will dot Egypt’s Mediterranean coast
Tourists will soon have the option of staying at more environmentally friendly hotels on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.Over the next two years, 30 hotels in Alexandria and another 25 hotels in Marsa Matrouh will become grounds for implementing environmentally conscientious mechanisms…
In the next 2 years, greener hotels will dot Egypt’s Mediterranean coast
Rangers’ protests: A new era for Egypt’s protectorates?
Rangers working in several of Egypt’s protectorates staged sit-ins earlier this month for the first time to protest problems related to their work conditions and to call attention to the ongoing threats to Egypt’s protectorates, which they work to safeguard.…
Rangers’ protests: A new era for Egypt’s protectorates?
‘Dayma’ offers experimental environmental travel around Egypt
A new educational environmental travel project, “Dayma,” offers a creative and alternative gateway to discovering and embracing Egypt’s natural beauty. Dayma, which means everlasting, enduring and sustainable in Arabic, perfectly describes what the project aims to encourage. Dayma’s founders are Sara…
‘Dayma’ offers experimental environmental travel around Egypt
Egypt’s lakes: ‘a truly tragic environmental tale’
The damage inflicted on Egypt’s lakes testifies to man’s ability to quickly destroy what nature took centuries to create. Lakes — or wetlands — add to the varied topography of the country, but environmental damage is seriously jeopardizing their habitats. In some cases…
Egypt’s lakes: ‘a truly tragic environmental tale’
Egypt demands environmental human rights
The leading slogan of Egypt’s revolution has been “Bread, Freedom and Human Dignity,” reflecting the deterioration of Egyptians’ quality of life throughout Mubarak’s thirty-year reign. Consequently, an array of human rights issues have featured among the demands made since the…
Egypt demands environmental human rights
A new eco-village in Upper Egypt renews interest in sustainable tourism
For many years, Upper Egypt has not been on the radar in terms of concerted national development policies. But it is a region with much potential for developing a sustainable tourism sector that would benefit its population by creating job…
A new eco-village in Upper Egypt renews interest in sustainable tourism
Mubarak environment minister left out of new cabinet
One of the few new faces in Kamal al-Ganzouri’s cabinet is Minister for Environmental Affairs Mostafa Hussein Kamel. A number of cabinet changes following the January revolution left Mubarak-era Environment Minister Maged George untouched. As he was a military man,…
Mubarak environment minister left out of new cabinet
Environment on the electoral agenda
Egypt is currently gripped by campaign frenzy as candidates prepare for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Not only is there a staggering number of new political parties, but also issues that had previously been overlooked are finally being addressed by electoral…
Environment on the electoral agenda
Food safety in Egypt: Will the new legislation bear fruit?
Food safety is a multi-layered problem involving an array of issues, whether environmental, health or economic in nature. What seems to distinguish it, in Egypt at least, is the fact that it is yet to receive the attention required to…