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Game of Drones

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 11, 2016
The eight-month old battle between the Lebanese state and anti-corruption activists has taken many forms: from street protests…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Invisible garbage, visible activism

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 15, 2015
One wealthy mountain suburb seems to have developed a unique technology to fight Lebanon’s garbage crisis. Or is…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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From sewer to sea

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 6, 2015
I was on my way to drop off my recycling at Ziad’s recycling plant near the port of…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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How to start recycling in Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 16, 2015
  As the video above states, a new initiative is finally allowing everyone to recycle in Lebanon. Beginning…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Save your bottles, support Lebanon’s glass industry

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 31, 2014
A lot of bottles will be piling up on the streets tonight. Soon they will be in landfills…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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What fire? Local news didn’t see it.

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 27, 2012
(*Update below) As I type this, an Armageddon-shaped black cloud of smoke hangs over Beirut, caused by a…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Fires not considered fires by Lebanese authorities

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 26, 2012
This afternoon, smoke from multiple fires billowed out of a green valley in Mtaileb, a hillside Beirut suburb,…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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How (not) to report pollution in Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 15, 2012
For much of this afternoon, a luxury residential apartment building was transformed into a pollution spewing factory fit…
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