Topic: United Arab Emirates

LAVA's Vision for Abu Dhabi's Sustainable Masdar City Center

Dubai's reign as a "symbol of crazed civic ambition" is over, but the United Arab Emirates is still planning to play host to Masdar City, the first large-scale carbon-neutral development in the world. Now the UAE has selected ...READ»

Where in the World to Find a Job

The national unemployment rate may be at its worst in over a decade, but there's a world of opportunity out there beyond Wall Street. Companies from Finland to Dubai are bucking the recession and actively hiring--you just have to know where to look.READ»

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UAE, Country With World's Largest Carbon Footprint, to Host HQ for International Renewable Energy Agency (Updated)

The United Arab Emirates has the largest per capita carbon footprint of any country in the world, contains artificial islands, a ski dome in the middle of the desert, and will soon boast the first air-conditioned beach. In general, ...READ»

Vertical Village Brings Energy-Efficient Gaudiness to Dubai

In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has always maintained a reputation as the center of excess and oil money gone awry, while Abu Dhabi's Masdar City has emerged as the UAE's sustainable core. But Dubai's developers might be ...READ»

9th International Defense Exhibition & Conference

Christmas comes in February for defense contractors. Thanks to its enormous military budget, China is the biggest target for the kinds of companies that will hawk everything from battleships to bullets at this five-day fair. But as ...READ»

Formula 1 Racing

It's a little unerving that so close to the 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix the yas hotel web site does not allow online booking!READ»

Preview: Architecture of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai

The grand tradition of World Expos may seem a little quaint to Americans--evoking 1950s era images of flying cars and robot butlers. But the Expos still live, and the upcoming Expo 2010 in Shanghai, promises to be worthwhile since ...READ»

Was Captain America Sacrificed on the Alter of Global Business?

Was the recent “death” of Marvel’s Captain America (reported by the AP on March 7) a bit of comic book ethnic cleansing? Less than two weeks after the surprise death of this superhero created during World War II to embody the ...READ»

Sternon Panvel - Real Estate Developers

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Trade Gap

Do we need to close the trade gap -- or clothe it? The Gap's suppliers indicate just how widespread the global economy is.READ»

Visions of South Korea's Urban Future

The United Arab Emirates gets all the attention for crazy urban schemes—from zero-carbon cities to kinetic, swirling skyscrapers. South Korea is lesser known, but it's also got grand ambitions and tech-crazed urban ...READ»

Italian Execs to Wall St.: Make Something Useful Already!

By turns testy, reproachful, defensive and self-congratulatory, Italian executives took the stage at New York's Museum of Arts and Design last night to insure America that, despite the wilting economy, in Milan, the furniture show ...READ»

sternon & garnet - Real Estate Developers

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Retail Fantasyland

Go to the National Retail Federation annual convention, and you might think we’re on the verge of a high-tech shopping boom. So where is it? Paco Underhill, retail consultant and author of Why We Buy, explains.READ»

Zero-Emissions Masdar City Gets Persian Gulf's First Geothermal Facility

Masdar City, a planned zero-emissions cleantech hub in the middle of Abu Dhabi, announced this weekend that it will raise between $300 and $500 million. Today Masdar announced even more significant news--the city is building the ...READ»

It's a Boat! It's a Plane! It's BMW Oracle's Wing Sail!

A massive 7,700 pound wing sail affixed to a racing trimaran may be the United States' best shot at winning the Americas Cup.READ»

Iranians Revolting Against Nokia for Alleged Spying Complicity

The tech-savviness of the Iranian people served them well during the protests against corruption in the recent election, and now it's making them turn against cellphone giant Nokia--a government colluder in their eyes.READ»

Innovation Economies

About three years ago, having returned from living in the UK for almost four years, I began thinking about the contrasts between different national cultures' acceptance of new technologies. In my lifetime in the US, and probably in ...READ»

Feedback

Savior or Sellout? Some of Adam Werbach's old friends in the environmental movement may not be talking to him since he signed on with Wal-Mart, but Fast Company readers had plenty to say about September's cover story. Responses ...READ»

Now February 2009

Coming in February: Super Bowl XLIII, Toy Fair '09, and the transition from analog to digital TVREAD»

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Take a Long Walk

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Excellent Leadership is Innovation - Just Ask Obama

Even in a business blog, it is not possible to sit down on this historic morning to compose a piece about leadership and innovation without talking about Barack Obama. The Obama leadership equation for two years has been Obama = ...READ»

From Wall Street to Dubai

Diary of a tech entrepreneur's adventures in the hot zone.READ»

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the worlds first zero carbon city

hi,find this interesting reading which i came across recently;   ABU DHABI - Abu Dhabi Starts Work on US $22 Billion Zero-Carbon City Abu Dhabi today broke ground on Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, ...READ»

Water Desalination: The Answer to the World's Thirst?

As supplies of fresh water evaporate, the world turns to the sea.READ»

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