Kholoud Khalifa has recently been able to meet with Dr. Mamdouh Hamza, the chairman of Hamza Associates and get his opinion on solar energy and other environmental issues.
Dr. Hamza offered his opinion on the most practical steps to undertake as an individual and as a community.
The talk of the hour is water scarcity, and Dr. Hamza rightfully says: ” ..culture has to change from the culture of plentiful to the culture of scarcity.”
Previously, but still reigning, is the topic of waste management and on this, Dr. Hamza is of the …

By: Mohammed Al Garf
For anyone who follows the news about environmental issues it is certain that they had stayed up to date with the proceedings of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) that took place in Copenhagen, Denmark from the 7th to the 18th of December, 2009. While many environmental activists in Egypt tuned in to the news through blogs, TV, newspapers and forums, a few Egyptian activists were actually in Copenhagen to experience the conference first hand.
I actually had the opportunity to interview two of these Egyptian …

By Nader Ramadan
Cairo- Most gardeners usually get frustrated with their weed problem. They slash them, cut them, or chemically poison them.  It is literally a weed holocaust. However, after the discovery that Dr. Safwan Khedr and his student Karim Abdel Warith with Tharwat Aguib made about local giant milkweeds, planting weeds may one day form an essential component of Egypt’s agricultural sector rather than a normal everyday nuisance!
Giant milkweeds, Calotropis procera, contains a sticky, milky substance that could potentially replace the asphalt which is used to stick the small aggregates …