Category Archives: SustainabilityCamp

Session Recap & Resolution: Is Your Body Ready? (Yes! ^_^)

In the session, we discussed a wide range of health issues (causes, effects, awareness, etc.). Our conversation led us to singling out a couple of points, which are: 1- Retailers stacking health bars at the bottom of shelves and promoting sweets at the top to encourage impulse buying, where is the social responsibility in that? [...]
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Crowdbuild a Place for us in UAE to Learn how to Behave more Sustainably

WOW. What an energized circle it was in the learning session, gathered around a sustainable ‘BarCampFire’! I’m still feeling it. Exploring what forms of education can lead us to a more sustainable way of living led to an epiphany that a lot of our learning is social - we absorb our behaviors from the people around [...]
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Creating a platform for community engagement with the arts

We reminded ourselves of the issues that concern residents of UAE and debated the role of arts in engaging effectively with the community with diverse artists, critics, and the casual arts onlooker among other stakeholders. There were three main threads to this session; creative production and development of ‘creatives’, developing an arts audience to cultivate [...]
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Kick start a collective platform for sustainability on 11/11/11 – Green Sheikh

At SustainabilityCamp, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali al Nauimi also known as Green Sheikh, opened the discussion with a brainstorm to mobilize participation towards what he calls, Project 11/11/11. The goal of the project is to create global momentum and unify all organizations, governments, businesses and individuals working under the 3 pillars of sustainability; society, [...]
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My Gifts from SustainabilityCamp

I just wanted to share with you some personal reflections, one week after our Sustainability unconference. It starts from a personal commitment that I made: to have 2 minutes of silence in between actions. Well, honestly, it didn’t work! People started to freak out after 30 seconds or so every time I was in the [...]
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