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Imagine a future where we not only live longer but stay healthy throughout those extra years. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in biotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, this vision is closer to becoming a reality. Advancements in Aging Research Aging research has made significant progress in recent years by combining disciplines like biology, technology, and medicine to tackle the challenges of extending healthspans and reducing age-related diseases. While people today live longer than ever before, extending our “healthspan”—the years we stay active and illness-free—remains challenging. AI and health biomarkers (biological indicators of our body's condition) are now key tools in the pursuit of longer, healthier lives. In a recent paper, led by corresponding authors Yu-Xuan Lyu from Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen; Alex Zhavoronkov from Insilico Medicine AI Limited, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi; Morten Scheibye-Knudsen and Daniela Bakula from the Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, along with numerous other collaborators, the transformative potential of AI in aging research was explored. The research paper, titled “Longevity biotechnology: bridging AI, biomarkers, geroscience and clinical applications for healthy longevity,” was published as the cover paper in Aging's Volume 16, Issue 20. Full blog - https://aging-us.org/2024/11/how-ai-and-longevity-biotechnology-are-revolutionizing-healthcare-for-healthier-longer-lives/ Paper DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206135 Corresponding authors - Yu-Xuan Lyu - lvyx@sustech.edu.cn, Alex Zhavoronkov - alex@insilico.com, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen - mscheibye@sund.ku.dk, and Daniela Bakula - bakula@sund.ku.dk Video short - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpfe5WJ5g7I Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article - https://aging.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Faging.206135 Subscribe for free publication alerts from Aging - https://www.aging-us.com/subscribe-to-toc-alerts Keywords - aging, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, healthy longevity About Aging-US The mission of the journal is to understand the mechanisms surrounding aging and age-related diseases, including cancer as the main cause of death in the modern aged population. The journal aims to promote 1) treatment of age-related diseases by slowing down aging, 2) validation of anti-aging drugs by treating age-related diseases, and 3) prevention of cancer by inhibiting aging. (Cancer and COVID-19 are age-related diseases.) Please visit our website at https://www.Aging-US.com​​ and connect with us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ X - https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/agingjrnl/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@AgingJournal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/AgingUS/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1X4HQQgegjReaf6Mozn6Mc MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM

BUFFALO, NY- October 31, 2024 – A new #research paper was #published as the #cover of Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science), Volume 16, Issue 20, entitled, “Longevity biotechnology: bridging AI, biomarkers, geroscience and clinical applications for healthy longevity.” This paper summarizes recent advances in healthspan biotechnology discussed at the 2023 Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD), where leading experts reviewed breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), biomarkers, aging clocks, geroscience, and clinical trials that support healthier, longer lives. The authors present a comprehensive view of how these technologies are shaping research and industry approaches to aging, focusing on targeting aging itself to reduce multiple age-related diseases and extend the healthy years of life. With people living longer, addressing age-related health issues is more critical than ever. Traditional healthcare often treats age-related diseases individually, overlooking aging as a core issue. Longevity biotechnology seeks to change this by combining AI with biomarker analysis to detect early signs of aging, enabling targeted interventions that not only delay disease but also promote longer, healthier lives. Led by corresponding authors Yu-Xuan Lyu from Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen; Alex Zhavoronkov from Insilico Medicine AI Limited, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi; Morten Scheibye-Knudsen and Daniela Bakula from the Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, this research synthesizes the potential of AI to identify precise biomarkers of aging, supporting the development of "aging clocks"—tools that use biological data to estimate a person's biological age and health risks. These tools help clinicians tailor prevention and treatment to individual needs. Additionally, AI speeds up the discovery of drugs that target primary aging drivers, such as cellular damage and decreased cellular energy, offering the potential to slow, prevent, or even reverse certain effects of aging and enhance quality of life. “The fusion of AI with biomarker research has markedly revolutionized the way biomarkers are identified and validated in the field of ageing.” This approach not only promises to slow, prevent, or even reverse certain effects of aging but also emphasizes the potential for AI-driven methods to extend healthspans. In conclusion, the authors emphasize the need for continued investment in AI-driven therapies and biomarker research, which hold the potential to redefine aging care and improve health outcomes as people grow older. DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206135 Corresponding Authors - Yu-Xuan Lyu - lvyx@sustech.edu.cn, Alex Zhavoronkov - alex@insilico.com, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen - mscheibye@sund.ku.dk, and Daniela Bakula - bakula@sund.ku.dk Video short - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpfe5WJ5g7I Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article - https://aging.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Faging.206135 Subscribe for free publication alerts from Aging - https://www.aging-us.com/subscribe-to-toc-alerts Keywords - aging, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, healthy longevity About Aging-US The journal aims to promote 1) treatment of age-related diseases by slowing down aging, 2) validation of anti-aging drugs by treating age-related diseases, and 3) prevention of cancer by inhibiting aging. (Cancer and COVID-19 are age-related diseases.) Please visit our website at https://www.Aging-US.com​​ and connect with us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ X - https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/agingjrnl/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@AgingJournal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/AgingUS/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1X4HQQgegjReaf6Mozn6Mc MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM

Are you interested in impact investing? Our summary today works with the article titled Invigorating impact investment networks: Actor-actant engagement in a smart city environment from 2023 by Joanna Vogeley and Paul Ryder, published in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Katarina Throssel in episode 236 talking about impact investing. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how impact investing can be connected to the future of cities. This article presents aspects for successful impact investing and the role of technologies, also revealing how network participants enhance distributed agency. As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects: Impact investing networks are complex ecosystems involving the interplay of human actors and technological actants, which can be effectively understood through the lens of General Systems Theory, Open Systems Theory, and Actor-Network Theory. Three key pillars - strategic networking, communication, and impact measurement - are crucial for creating dynamic and effective impact investing networks that accelerate positive outcomes while also being aware of potential negative consequences. Technology plays a vital role in facilitating actor-actant engagements within impact investing networks, enabling the flow of capital, knowledge, and resources towards social and environmental goals, but its influence must be critically examined. You can find the article through this link. Abstract: Impact investing seeks to generate measurable social and/or environmental impact alongside a financial return. Accordingly, assumed trade-off between financial return and social benefit is no longer a given, with Masdar City demonstrating that the mobilisation of dynamic networks facilitates the growth of impact investments. So as to better understand the complex dynamics of successful impact investing networks, we engage General Systems Theory, Open Systems Theory, and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a tripartite conceptual framework. Directly related to this, we show the role of technologies and reveal how network participants enhance distributed agency. We also identify three pillars crucial to the impact investing milieu: strategic innovation, communication, and impact measurement. The article finally observes a set of key outcomes, explores the implications for practice and considers directions for further research. Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.203R - Too risky – The role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions No.204 - Interview with Josh Dry about the financial sector's role in establishing better future for cities and humanity You can find the transcript through ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠

Die utopische Idee, mit der Masdar City ursprünglich entwickelt wurde, hat der Wirklichkeit nicht standgehalten. Es hat sich aber etwas entwickelt, das für die Region sehr wertvoll ist, nämlich ein Reallabor für energieffiziente Gebäude. Haus für Haus reduzieren die Architekten und Planer den Energiebedarf der Bauwerke und ergänzen Photovoltaik-Anlagen, so dass bereits die ersten CO2-neutralen Gebäude stehen. In Zukunft soll auch der Baukörper selbst dekarbonisiert werden. pv magazine war vor Ort.

Новости на радио «Русские Эмираты» в Дубае: - Компания e& UAE, телекоммуникационный оператор Объединенных Арабских Эмиратов, зарегистрировала самую высокую в мире скорость в своей действующей сети 5G – она составила 30,5 Гбит/с. - В Столице Объединенных Арабских Эмиратов откроют первый в регионе государственный биобанк пуповинной крови. Биобанк, открытие которого запланировано на следующий год в Masdar City, сможет хранить до пяти миллионов биологических образцов и 100 тысяч образцов стволовых клеток.

Episode Description: How can biotechnology transform the world and beyond? That's the question that John Cumbers, a biotech visionary and entrepreneur, explores in this episode of the podcast. He reveals how biotechnology is merging with other sectors, such as space exploration, and how synthetic biology is reshaping the future. He also discusses how biotech can help solve global problems, from environmental to health issues. He shares his insights on the latest trends and innovations in biotech, such as AI and decentralized science, and how they are creating new possibilities and challenges. He also tells his story, from working at NASA to founding SynBioBeta, and how he envisions a future where biology and technology create amazing solutions for humanity. Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and influencers changing the world by growing everything. Biology is the oldest technology. And it can be engineered. What are we growing? Learn more at www.messaginglab.com/groweverything Topics Covered: 00:00:00 - Exploring Global Biotech Innovations: Focus on Saudi Arabia 00:01:57 - Overcoming Hurdles in Global Biotech Projects 00:03:35 - Visioning the Future: Sustainable Biotech Solutions Worldwide 00:04:17 - Spotlight on Africa: Biotech's Role in Sustainable Development 00:05:24 - Strategic Moves: Shaping the Future of Biotech Startups 00:07:38 - Exclusive: John Cumbers on Pioneering Biotech Advancements 00:18:52 - Decentralizing Science: The Rise of DAOs in Biotech 00:22:44 - Beyond Earth: The Nexus of Space Exploration and Biology 00:29:44 - A Glimpse into the Future: AI Meets Synthetic Biology 00:34:03 - Rethinking Synthetic Biology: A Lively Debate 00:37:26 - Safeguarding the Future: Biotech in National Security 00:40:05 - Competing on a Global Stage: Insights into Biotech Ecosystems 00:47:25 - Launching New Ventures: The Evolution of Biological Enlightenment Studios 00:50:15 - Wrapping Up: Key Takeaways from Our Discussion with John Cumbers Episode Links: Get $300 off Synbiobeta tickets (May 6-9 in San Jose, CA) using promo code: Grow Everything Saudi Arabia National Biotech Strategy (news) Masdar City in Abu Dhabi (website) The Line by NEOM in Saudia Arabia (website) Synbiobeta Investor Report 2024 (website) BetaSpace on the Moon 2030 (website) Neoplants (website) Biofabricate (website) Light Bio (website) Molecule DAO (website) Valley DAO (website) Athena DAO (website) Hair DAO (website) Vita DAO (website) Paul Stamets (wikipedia) Martine Rothblatt (wikipedia) Craig Venter (wikipedia) Sang Yup Lee (website) Drew Barry Central Dogma (video) National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology  (website) Ailurus  (website) Lantern Bio oral microbiome company (website) Synthetic Biology by Vantage Films (video) Polybion x Ganni (story) Have a question or comment? Message us here: Text or Call (804) 505-5553 ⁠Instagram⁠ / ⁠TikTok⁠ / ⁠Twitter⁠ / ⁠LinkedIn⁠ / ⁠Youtube⁠ / ⁠GrowEverything website⁠ Email: groweverything@messaginglab.com Support here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by: Nihilore Production by: Amplafy Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messaginglab/message

Vor 15 Jahren wollten die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate eine klimaneutrale Stadt bauen. Heute gibt es diese Stadt, aber sie ist weit entfernt vom ursprünglichen Projekt. Die Ziele waren hochtrabend. Ausgerechnet ein Öl-Emirat, das mit Öl und Gas reich wurde, wollte eine Stadt bauen, die kein klimaschädliches CO2 ausstösst. Der Augenschein vor Ort und Gespräche mit Fachleuten zeigen: Masdar City funktioniert längst nicht so wie geplant. Trotzdem hat das Projekt einiges bewirkt.

Die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate wollen damit zeigen: Wir können auch nachhaltig (Autor: Martin Polansky)

Новости на радио «Русские Эмираты» в Дубае: - Отток капитала из России в Объединенные Арабские Эмираты с начала специальной военной операции на территории Украины вырос вдвое, сообщил начальник управления оценки рисков Росфинмониторинга Евгений Шевляков. - В инновационном городке Masdar City в Абу-Даби построят первую в регионе мечеть с нулевым потреблением энергии. С ее помощью планируется установить новый стандарт для молитвенных домов, который будет сочетать инновационный дизайн, культурное наследие и защиту окружающей среды.

durée : 00:04:08 - Le Reportage de la Rédaction - La COP 28 s'ouvre ce jeudi 30 novembre 2023 à Dubaï. Drôle d'endroit pour une COP dont le président, Sultan Al Jaber, est le PDG de la compagnie nationale pétrolière. Les Émirats qui se présentent aussi comme un champion des énergies renouvelables, avec comme vitrine l'éco-ville de Masdar City.

durée : 00:04:30 - Le zoom de la rédaction - Alors que s'ouvre la COP28 à Dubai, direction Masdar, une ville qui a poussé en plein désert, dont les Émirats arabes unis ont fait une vitrine...Ils la présentent comme la ville parfaite pour les canicules, adaptée à un climat désertique. Petit tour du propriétaire.

durée : 00:04:08 - Le Reportage de la Rédaction - La COP28 s'ouvre ce jeudi 30 novembre 2023 à Dubaï. Drôle d'endroit pour une COP dont le président, Sultan Al Jaber, est le PDG de la compagnie nationale pétrolière. Les Émirats qui se présentent aussi comme un champion des énergies renouvelables, avec comme vitrine l'éco-ville de Masdar City.

Новости на радио «Русские Эмираты» в Дубае: - Национальная нефтяная компания Абу-Даби (ADNOC) объявила о начале строительства первой на Ближнем Востоке высокоскоростной водородной заправочной станции. Объект, строящийся в Masdar City, будет производить чистый водород из воды с помощью электролизера. - Жительница Дубая собиралась ехать домой в Индию на летние каникулы, и спросила у своей матери, что та хочет в качестве подарка. На фоне резкого подорожания цен на помидоры в Индии женщина обратилась к своей дочери с довольно практичной просьбой: привезти домой 10 кг помидоров.

We get the thoughts of some of our business leaders what they did as teenagers - and what advice they had for young entrepreneurs. Plus, the UAE is to invest 30 billion dollars in South Korea. Scott Snyder is the Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations and he's been following the visit closely. We get his take on it and why it's important. And lots of green energy headlines at the start of ADSW - World Future Energy Summit starts today. Steve Severance of Masdar City  joins us live. And as DMCC release their impressive numbers we sit down with their boss Ahmed Bin Sulayem for an extended chat.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The average LA commuter spends five days a year stuck in traffic; pedestrian deaths are the highest they've been in 40 years in the U.S.; and the transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in America. They're all products of a system that has prioritized automobiles over people for decades. But ‘car free' or ‘car light' approaches to urban planning are taking hold in cities and neighborhoods around the world. From Amsterdam to Barcelona to Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates, officials are getting serious about redesigning their communities for car-free living. The concept sounds a bit radical. But it doesn't mean getting rid of cars altogether. It's about reimagining communities to shift the balance in favor of new transit options. In this episode, Andrei and Tiffany explore what transportation in the U.S. would look like if most of us didn't have to reach for our car keys every day.Guests:Ellen Dunham-Jones, director of the urban design program at Georgia TechCornelia Dinca, founder of Sustainable AmsterdamPeter Norton, associate professor of history at the University of VirginiaShyam Kannan, Mid-Atlantic transit lead at HDRTransit expert Jerome Horne

A number of countries across the Gulf and Middle East and North Africa, including the UAE, are stepping up investments in companies and initiatives that develop local food supply chains. Dana, which supports desert-tech and agri-tech startups with at least one woman founder, has agreed a deal with Masdar City to set up an R&D beta facility in Abu Dhabi. Chief Executive of Dana, Zada Haj, talks to co-hosts Kelsey Warner and Mustafa Alrawi about the importance of building up the sector amid growing concerns about food security in the Mena region amid climate change, conflict in Ukraine and Covid-disrupted supply chains. In this episode: Dana's role in food security and women-led startups (0m 16s) The birth of Dana and its mission in the region (7m 37s) Adapting for the different markets of the Mena region (16m 19s) Making investors look at the bigger picture (22m 12s)   Read more on our website: Masdar City and investment platform Dana sign pact to advance food security in UAE Can the UAE's agritech plans help meet the global food challenge? UAE to invest $2 billion in Indian 'food parks' and explore clean energy projects Subscribe to Business Extra for free to receive new episodes every week Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Podbean

Artificial Intelligence may evoke images of robots in the movies, but it is in fact something that’s changing the world we live in. In this episode of Future Forward, our unusual tech dialogue delves into AI developments and concerns, with the brilliant Dr. Abdel Rahman AlMahmoud, Principal Big Data & Analytics Researcher and Leading Secure Cloud and Machine Learning at the Technology Innovation Institute located at Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 140: Modern Art and Architecture in Morocco in the Aftershock of the 1960 Agadir Earthquake On February 29, 1960, an earthquake leveled much of the southern Moroccan coastal city of Agadir. Over the next decade, a new Agadir would be built in an avant-garde brutalist architectural style, representing a concrete example of Morocco's newly independent future. And yet, this future is haunted by the trauma and violence of the past, by way of both the earthquake as well as colonialism. The literal and figurative aftershocks of the earthquake would go on to impact, in ways that are often obscured, various facets of life all around Morocco and beyond, especially with regards to visual and material culture. This raises the questions about the entanglements of human actors with non-human forces when it comes to histories of modernism, decolonization, and nation-building.   Riad Kherdeen studies global modern art and architecture, with a focus on the region of West Asia/Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He is working on a doctoral dissertation project on modernist art and architecture in Morocco related to the Agadir earthquake of 1960 titled “Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and Haunting in the Aftershock of Morocco's Agadir Earthquake (1960)." His interests fall within three main clusters of study: the first is in comparative and planetary modernisms via postcolonial studies and critical theory; the second is in the study of perception, including aesthetics, phenomenology, psychoanalytic theory, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience; and the third is in materialisms, ranging from the micro scale with technical studies of visual and material cultural production, including techniques, processes, technologies, and materials/conservation science, to the macro scale including Marxist/historical materialism, new materialism, ecocriticism, and systems theory. Riad holds a B.A. in Art History and a minor in Chemistry from New York University (2013) and an M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts (2016). His M.A. thesis “Masdar City: Oriental City of the Twenty-First Century,” advised by Jean-Louis Cohen, looks at the urban design and architecture of Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates as a new iteration of the “Orientalized” city within a genealogy of recent urbanism in the Arab world, one that still succumbs to the imagined representations of the region created by European imperialism yet embraces those stereotypes to construct new narratives about its people and its nascent nation. Previously, Riad has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Genome Project at Artsy.   This episode was recorded on November 19th, 2021 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).    Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

Abstract On February 29, 1960, an earthquake leveled much of the southern Moroccan coastal city of Agadir. Over the next decade, a new Agadir would be built in an avant-garde brutalist architectural style, representing a concrete example of Morocco's newly independent future. And yet, this future is haunted by the trauma and violence of the past, by way of both the earthquake as well as colonialism. The literal and figurate aftershocks of the earthquake would go on to impact, in ways that are often obscured, various facets of life all around Morocco and beyond, especially with regards to visual and material culture. This raises the questions about the entanglements of human actors with non-human forces when it comes to histories of modernism, decolonization, and nation-building. Riad Kherdeen studies global modern art and architecture, with a focus on the region of West Asia/Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He is working on a doctoral dissertation project on modernist art and architecture in Morocco related to the Agadir earthquake of 1960 titled “Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and Haunting in the Aftershock of Morocco's Agadir Earthquake (1960)." His interests fall within three main clusters of study: the first is in comparative and planetary modernisms via postcolonial studies and critical theory; the second is in the study of perception, including aesthetics, phenomenology, psychoanalytic theory, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience; and the third is in materialisms, ranging from the micro scale with technical studies of visual and material cultural production, including techniques, processes, technologies, and materials/conservation science, to the macro scale including Marxist/historical materialism, new materialism, ecocriticism, and systems theory. Riad holds a B.A. in Art History and a minor in Chemistry from New York University (2013) and an M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts (2016). His M.A. thesis “Masdar City: Oriental City of the Twenty-First Century,” advised by Jean-Louis Cohen, looks at the urban design and architecture of Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates as a new iteration of the “Orientalized” city within a genealogy of recent urbanism in the Arab world, one that still succumbs to the imagined representations of the region created by European imperialism yet embraces those stereotypes to construct new narratives about its people and its nascent nation. Previously, Riad has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Art Genome Project at Artsy. Photograph of the Agadir central post office, designed by Jean-François Zevaco in 1963. The photo comes from Thierry Nadau's chapter in Architecture française d'outer-mer.

In the past two decades, the augmentation in the Artificial Intelligence and advanced disruptive technologies sector has played a key role in upscaling the social and economic development in the United Arab Emirates. The AI sector of the UAE has vectored a myriad of advanced projects such as the creation of the Dubai Internet City, the usage of the renewable city in Masdar City and the Emirates Mars Mission. Fostering the development of these smart technologies such as robotics, blockchain technology and the Internet of Things has the potential to further fuel UAE's economic competitiveness, growth and flexibility. Let's discuss it today!

Charalampos Giannikopoulos is the founder of DCarbon, a consultancy firm whose goal is to provide top-quality analysis and strengthen existing values in the real-estate sector through the seamless integration of sustainable development tools, optimum efficiencies, innovation and green advocacy. Charalampos started his career in the UK as the Sustainability Coordinator of the R&D group at Aedas, a global leading architectural firm, jumping to the business consultancy sector focusing on environmental investments and PPP projects. In 2011, he was involved in the inaugural implementation of LEED in Greece with large scale commercial projects. With extensive experience in participating in multi-disciplinary teams on major international projects including the “Masdar City” sustainable masterplan and the “Abu Dhabi Investment Council” development in Abu Dhabi, Charalampos has been involved in prominent commercial, industrial and educational projects in the region including management of more than 80% of all completed LEED projects in Greece. Along with dynamic energy modelling projects, creation and implementation of environmental management plans and green advocacy programs. Charalampos is a LEED Fellow, a USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) Faculty, a former member of the LEED Technical Advisory Group of the USGBC and USGBC Pro Reviewer, a founding member of the BoD of the SBC Greece, former Vice President of the Hellenic Chapter of ASHRAE, a LEED AP with the “Building Design + Construction”, “Interior Design + Construction”, “Operations + Maintenance” and “Neighborhood Development” specialties, a WELL AP, a BREEAM International New Construction Assessor, a BREEAM In-Use Assessor, an Estidama Pearl Qualified Professional, a DGNB Consultant and an EDGE Expert.    Show Highlights Greece's  95% collapse in the real estate sector pushed sustainability to the forefront of projects. Charalampos' project management company does sustainability on a greater scale by asking how green is your portfolio.  Looking at sustainability from a different aspect to improve product manufacturer requirements.  Charalampos' fearlessness has allowed his team to be involved in every single first project in its category. How the evolution of health issues connects directly with the economics of green building? The biggest challenges for the future and why LEED has been taken for granted. Applying LEED and other rating systems in his region. Keys for successful LEED projects and how to engage teams to maximize resources.   “I'm really proud of our involvement in the first  LEED Platinum project in Greece - a kindergarten! To us, it is vitally important that children come into contact with sustainability. We believe that early exposure to sustainability can have a positive impact on the way people see the world, and choose to live and interact with the environment.” - Charalampos Giannikopoulos   Charalampos Giannikopoulos Transcript   Charalampos Giannikopoulos' Show Resource and Information   This Changes Everything LinkedIn DCarbon | Sustainability Consulting | LinkedIn DCARBON     Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!   Copyright © 2021 GBES

Operating far outside the lines of what he calls the “humanitarian-industrial complex,” freelance culture hacker and FreeSpace founder Mike Zuckerman has been going into refugee settlements around the world, working with their citizens to create spaces and places that better serve their communities. While the NGOs wrung their hands over how to deliver aid in the COVID-19 pandemic, Zuck spent most of last year on the ground in Uganda, working with the people of Nakivale, a refugee settlement of 120,000 near the Tanzanian border. Together they built civic spaces including an amphitheater, a library, a radio station, and a Virtual Reality room in a shipping container, which they used to connect Nakivale to the Burning Man online multiverse last summer. With projects like these, Zuck is bringing the lessons of Black Rock City to other temporary spaces around the world, helping displaced persons overcome “agency deprivation disorder” and reclaim their innate plowers of self-reliance and self-expression.http://www.mikezuckerman.comhttp://freespace.iohttps://opportunigee.orghttps://burningman.org/culture/burning-man-arts/grants/globalLIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

Operating far outside the lines of what he calls the “humanitarian-industrial complex,” freelance culture hacker and FreeSpace founder Mike Zuckerman has been going into refugee settlements around the world, working with their citizens to create spaces and places that better serve their communities. While the NGOs wrung their hands over how to deliver aid in the COVID-19 pandemic, Zuck spent most of last year on the ground in Uganda, working with the people of Nakivale, a refugee settlement of 120,000 near the Tanzanian border. Together they built civic spaces including an amphitheater, a library, a radio station, and a Virtual Reality room in a shipping container, which they used to connect Nakivale to the Burning Man online multiverse last summer. With projects like these, Zuck is bringing the lessons of Black Rock City to other temporary spaces around the world, helping displaced persons overcome “agency deprivation disorder” and reclaim their innate plowers of self-reliance and self-expression.mikezuckerman.comfreespace.ioopportunigee.orgto.orgwearealight.org ourhabitas.com/riseburningman.org/culture/burning-man-arts/grants/globalLIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG 

We talk to Greg Lavery of Rype Office, which remanufactures high quality office furniture. We hear why Greg decided that office furniture is ideal for a circular business, how Rype’s customer base is evolving and why people are switching to remade furniture. A civil engineer by training, Greg has focused his career on improving the sustainability of the built environment. He began by working for Arup and Greg was awarded a PhD in sustainable building design in the 1990s. He built, from startup, what is now Australia’s largest solar business, Origin Solar, and as a consultant, assisted organisations with innovative sustainable business models, including Masdar City, Interface, Shell and ClimateWorks Australia.

LFA at Kualoa Ranch; Lessons from Masdar City; Honolulu Mayoral Race; Promise of Statehood

LFA at Kualoa Ranch; Lessons from Masdar City; Honolulu Mayoral Race; Promise of Statehood

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates's planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. Most of such hypotheses remain science fiction, but in Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society. The first parts of Masdar City opened beside the Abu Dhabi airport in 2010 as an oil-wealth funded initiative to establish the UAE as a leader in the renewable energy sector and to begin to prepare the emirates for a low or post-oil economy. Masdar attracted students and researchers from around the world to test, and be test subjects, for innovations including personal rapid transit, energy currencies, carbon capture and storage, and closed-loop resource circuits. Quickly, however, the master plan was abandoned as unworkable; but Masdar City has also not been a failure. Rather, Günel explores the interconnected social, technical, and political ramifications and adaptations involved in this attempt to design a potential fossil fuel-free future. She shrewdly criticizes the limitations of climate change strategies intended to protect the political economic status quo. Yet also, through deep ethnographic fieldwork with participants, Günel demonstrates the valuable role of anthropological insight in social and technological adaptations to a changing climate. Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Lance C. Thurner recently completed a PhD in History at Rutgers University with a dissertation addressing the production of medical knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He is broadly interested in the methods and politics of applying a global perspective to the history of science and medicine and the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 4 is a special collaboration with the @comotion podcast from LA Comotion. In this episode, Scott Smith talks with Comotion host, futurist and urbanist Greg Lindsay about smart cities, technology, mobility and energy transition, live from Masdar City in the UAE. Liner notes: https://medium.com/@changeist/underfutures-episode-4-ghost-smart-cities-4ceee43829b4

Episode 27. This conversation between Greg Lindsay and futurist Scott Smith was recorded on location in Masdar City, UAE. Scott and Greg chat about the famous closed-loop zero-carbon city, which Scott refers to as "a fragment of the Gulf future's 1.0 dream", and about building the next vision of the future. Scott, Founder and Managing Director of Amsterdam-based consulting group Changeist, talks about how mobility cultures differ from city to city, and highlights the need to think about sustainable transportation as part of a much more complex system.

Episode 27. This conversation between Greg Lindsay and futurist Scott Smith was recorded on location in Masdar City, UAE. Scott and Greg chat about the famous closed-loop zero-carbon city, which Scott refers to as "a fragment of the Gulf future's 1.0 dream", and about building the next vision of the future. Scott, Founder and Managing Director of Amsterdam-based consulting group Changeist, talks about how mobility cultures differ from city to city, and highlights the need to think about sustainable transportation as part of a much more complex system.

Chris Bosse, architect and cofounder of LAVA since 2007, a firm that fusions future technologies with patterns of organization found in nature to build a smarter, more socially and environmentally responsible future, visited UFM to talk about his company and the projects they develop. He describes the ideas that LAVA wants to disseminate and that inspire them: nature, technology and humankind. In his opinion, everything has been digitalized in the past years, but construction is still stuck. If we combine principles from nature, with principles of latest technology then we have a chance to build an architecture that is always contemporary and can always be updated but is always valid in its eternal principles”. Bosse talks about the idea of building with minimum effort, material and weight but maximum impact, along with concepts and things from nature that they have studied. Chris explains this point by showing several of the projects he has developed around the world, the objectives they had, construction process and inspiration behind. These ideas of nature and technology have always been around, Bosse says. He talks about Leonardo Da Vinci, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frei Otto's work, who were some of the pioneers at this, and discusses the importance of setting parameters to projects, according to the outcomes desired. There's multiple outcomes based on parameters we can adjust, so we can also go back within the design process in order to get a more efficient outcome”. Then he goes further into the projects LAVA has worked on, such as the aquatic center, Beijing 2008 Olympics: an olympic water cube designed on the concept of Yin-Yang and the structure of corals, The Green Climate Fund Headquarters: a german offices building that motivates people to flow around and integrates sustainable technology. The JeJu Hills Hotel Resort, the Masdar City: a city prototype of the 21st century with zero carbon, zero waste ecology, zero emissions and cars that pretends to attract investors, scientists and students to create this project and eventually replicate it, to have sustainable cities. I call this shaping the future because we refer to the past, we live in the present but we proyect into the future, we build a world for future generations”. Chris then talks about Forest City in Malaysia: it is being build with the vision of translating forest into a vertical city, the Energy Storage Centre in Germany and many other interesting projects. Finally he reflects on how these new ways of construction encourage people to think outside the box and challenge the current architectural ways.

Episode 405with Gökçe Günelhosted by Matthew GhazarianDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudAbout half-hour's drive from Abu Dhabi sits Masdar City, a clean technology and renewable energy business cluster and research institute. Founded in 2006, Masdar imagines a sustainable and business-savvy future where technology, ecology, and humanity co-exist and thrive, even in the oil-rich deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. In this episode we speak with Gökçe Günel, who spent over a year at Masdar examining the anthropology of renewable energy and green technology development. We talk about the challenges of pioneering greener versions of transportation, currency, and energy, as well as how experts imagine and produce these projects. How can developing technologies help us mitigate or even avert ecological disaster? And how does faith in their powers define whether and how we can transform our current patterns of consumption and energy use? « Click for More »

Episode 405with Gökçe Günelhosted by Matthew GhazarianDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudAbout half-hour's drive from Abu Dhabi sits Masdar City, a clean technology and renewable energy business cluster and research institute. Founded in 2006, Masdar imagines a sustainable and business-savvy future where technology, ecology, and humanity co-exist and thrive, even in the oil-rich deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. In this episode we speak with Gökçe Günel, who spent over a year at Masdar examining the anthropology of renewable energy and green technology development. We talk about the challenges of pioneering greener versions of transportation, currency, and energy, as well as how experts imagine and produce these projects. How can developing technologies help us mitigate or even avert ecological disaster? And how does faith in their powers define whether and how we can transform our current patterns of consumption and energy use? « Click for More »

In their second episode, Noah and Ben sit down to define the 4th Industrial Revolution, discuss the prospective change we will see in society, and ask a few questions about the future of tech. Questions and Links: 1. (Modern Indentured Servant) https://qz.com/india/1377844/h-1b-visa-fraud-indian-ceo-accused-of-duping-us-immigration/ 2. (Amazon's Announcement on Healthcare) https://qz.com/1192731/amazons-push-into-healthcare-just-cost-the-industry-30-billion-in-market-cap/ 3. (The Masdar City) https://www.inverse.com/article/23321-masdar-city-abu-dhabi-future-cities-sustainable-architecture-urban-middle-east Our Questions to You: 1. Tech and the Church. What does the future look like for them in terms of adaptation or unaware infiltration 2. What will happen WHEN we don't have to leave our homes 3. What will happen to members of dying industries like journalism/mining conform to this new society? 4. What will happen when we don't get sick anymore? 5. If all knowledge is free to us now, why is there still inequality? 6. What's the next major industry that will die just like the pony express? 7. What will our work transform into. Whether it be construction, textile development, or tech? Comment your thoughts below, we want you to be a part of this conversation!

A busca por uma vida mais sustentável é uma necessidade. Será que esse caminho foi encontrado por Norman Foster?  O ArquiPapo da vez fala do projeto de Masdar City nos Emirados Árabes. A cidade que...

Masdar City, a squeaky-clean planned city under development outside Abu Dhabi, grew from the sand with a single vision: help the United Arab Emirates wean itself off its own vast oil reserves. The 10-year-old micro-metropolis serves as an incubator for clean-technology companies. It incorporates the latest design and construction strategies to minimize its energy consumption. It runs solely on renewable energy.

In this episode, I talk with Chris Chi Lon Wan, the head of design of Masdar City, UAE. We had a great conversation around design management and sustainability and how to achieve innovation in development projects. Engineering Quotes: Here are some of the questions I asked Chris about sustainability: Tell us about Masdar City? What […] The post TCEP 107: How to Achieve Sustainable Innovation in Development Projects appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

#031 - Es begab sich, dass Audi zu Testfahrten mit dem neuen Elektroauto E-Tron eingeladen hatte. Also stieg Stefan ins Flugzeug nach Abu Dhabi und war in und um Masdar City dabei. Unterdessen nutzte Paul-Janosch die Chance, sämtliche 4x4-Modelle von Alfa Romeo, Fiat und Jeep auf schneebedeckten Straßen zu bewegen. Eine typische Woche im Leben zweier Motorjournalisten. // Autotelefon - Der Podcast über Autos. // Jetzt abonnieren! Wir freuen uns über Rezensionen und Bewertungen.

Neste podcast, você vai ouvir um resumo das visitas técnicas que Menta fez a Dubai e a Abu Dabhi, nos Emirados Árabes, entre 20 e 25 de janeiro. Acompanhe detalhes desta viagem inspiradora, passando pelo Dubai Mall (maior shopping center do mundo), Masdar City (cidade sustentável), Ministério da Felicidade, Burj Al Khalifa (torre mais alta do planeta) e a Montanha Russa mais rápida do mundo, no Ferrari World. Para acessar outros conteúdos, acesse www.menta90.com.br. Lá você encontra o link para demais textos, podcast e vídeos.   

Dominic and Cymene eat crow about Larsen C, discuss d-bags and make an exciting announcement about next week's episode. Then (16:29) we welcome to the podcast former CENHS postdoc and current Arizona anthropologist Gökçe Günel. We learn about Gökçe's fascinating work on Abu Dhabi's prototype city-of-the-future, Masdar City, a project which recently culminated in her forthcoming book, Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke Univ. Press, 2018). We talk about the early hype surrounding Masdar and what actually came to be, some of the most interesting experiments (driverless pod cars, an energy-based currency system), the aspirations of Arab urbanism, and why the project as a whole has often been called a failure. Gökçe shares with us her thoughts about the true legacies of Masdar, urban retrofitting, labor theory of value vs. energy theory of value, and proleptic temporality (the telling of the future before the future happens). We turn from there to Gökçe's more recent work on desalination and carbon capture in the Arabian peninsula and finally to her current work on power ships, floating generators that are being used to power cities across the world. Listen on!

SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode is a deep exploration into the intersection of land use, religion, and the fragmenting of societies. Rhamis has worked and travelled throughout North Africa, The Middle East, Central Asia and Southern Europe, teaching Permaculture and working on projects throughout the region. In this episode we explore the role that land degradation plays in the destabilization of societies, and how it has been a component in the rise of religious fundamentalism and terrorism. Specifically addressed is the situation in Syria with ISIS and the civil war there. Rhamis also goes into his view of Islamic religious zealotry and where it has gone astray from the faith. He talks a lot about his views of Islam and it's connection to his Permaculture work. It's a deep episode. Enjoy the ride! Rhamis's Links: permacultureglobal.org/users/51 permaculturenews.org/author/rhamiskent/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mur0Nz9W3Q SEE RELATED EPISODE 001: Rhamis Kent: Permaculture's Solution to the Refugee Crises https://soundcloud.com/user-193856180/earth-repair-radio-001-rhamis-kent Rhamis's full biography: Rhamis Kent is a consultant with formal training in mechanical engineering (University of Delaware, B.S.M.E. ’95) and permaculture-based regenerative whole systems design. He has previously worked for the renowned American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen at DEKA Research & Development, with subsequent engineering work ranging from medical device research and development to aerospace oriented mechanical design. After taking an interest in the design science of Permaculture, he sought extended training with permaculture expert and educator Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. This led to his involvement with design work connected to the development of Masdar City in UAE after Mr. Lawton and his consulting company (Permaculture Sustainable Consultancy Pty. Ltd.) were contracted by AECOM/EDAW to identify solutions which fit the challenging zero emissions/carbon neutral design constraint of the project. EDITORIAL NOTE FROM RHAMIS: I went back to look at that data I quoted about gun violence and needed to correct some of the number I cited (incorrectly): https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel.../2014/12/141217090810.htm Firearm violence facts from 2003 -- 2012 - 300,659 deaths from firearm violence -- more than U.S. combat fatalities in WWII An average of 82.3 deaths every day. - $165 billion in costs to society in 2010 - In 2012, 96.2 percent of all firearm deaths were from homicide and suicide, and 64 percent of deaths from firearm violence were suicides. - Compared to other industrialized nations, the U.S. has a low predisposition to violence but the highest firearm mortality. "The overall death rate from firearm violence in young black males is very high, and there has been little net change since 1999," Wintemute said. Firearm homicides among black males aged 20 to 29 are five times higher than those among Hispanic males and at least 20 times higher than for white males. Homicide rates for black females are also higher than rates for Hispanics and whites. In 2012, firearm homicides were the leading cause of death for black men ages 15 to 24. Among white men, Hispanic men, and black women in that age range, firearm violence ranked second after unintentional injuries. Firearm suicide: White males and females at higher risk The data show that suicides are concentrated among whites, with the risk among white men steadily increasing throughout their lifespans and steeply rising from ages 70 to 74. By 85 and older, suicide for white males was 3.2 times that of Hispanic males and five times that of black males. "With additional research, we can identify other interventions that can reduce firearm violence, which is responsible for more than 30,000 deaths each year," Wintemute said.

SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM Permaculture's Solution to the Refugee Crises Podcast interview with Rhamis Kent, focussing on land degradation and it's impacts on global security, refugees, and the solutions that can be found through Permaculture. Rhamis has worked in Somalia, Yemen, and throughout North Africa and Southern Europe. He is really tuned into the conditions and challenges of regions that are viewed as "unstable" by the Western world, and has a great deal of insights about how Permaculture can assist people, and solve the refugee crisis through large scale land restoration. Rhamis's Links: https://permacultureglobal.org/users/51 http://permaculturenews.org/author/rhamiskent/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mur0Nz9W3Q SEE RELATED EPISODE 008 - Rhamis Kent: Land Degradation and the Roots of ISIS https://soundcloud.com/user-193856180/episode-008-rhamis-kent-land-degradation-and-the-roots-of-isis Rhamis's full biography: Rhamis Kent is a consultant with formal training in mechanical engineering (University of Delaware, B.S.M.E. ’95) and permaculture-based regenerative whole systems design. He has previously worked for the renowned American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen at DEKA Research & Development, with subsequent engineering work ranging from medical device research and development to aerospace oriented mechanical design. After taking an interest in the design science of Permaculture, he sought extended training with permaculture expert and educator Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. This led to his involvement with design work connected to the development of Masdar City in UAE after Mr. Lawton and his consulting company (Permaculture Sustainable Consultancy Pty. Ltd.) were contracted by AECOM/EDAW to identify solutions which fit the challenging zero emissions/carbon neutral design constraint of the project.

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Oliver Leisse im Gespräch mit der Fotografin Uschi Irani, die für uns in Dubai Trends erforscht. Wir reden über die Zukunft der Metropole, über die grösste Mall der Welt, über Luxus und einen goldenen Porsche. Über Architektur, Nomaden, neue Kunstviertel und die Lust am Show Off. Über die fehlende Verbindung zur Kultur der Region, neue kreative Chancen und weshalb Dubai eher eine Gemüse-Suppe ist als ein Melting Pot. Über Masdar City, die erste komplett umweltfreundliche Stadt und gekühlte Kühe. Folge direkt herunterladen

Masdar City is a low-carbon, mixed-use development located in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Prospect Group spoke with Masdar City’s Director, Anthony Mallows, and Head of Business Development, Amier Alawadhi, about the evolution of the Masdar concept, attracting investment, and maintaining the balance between environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

Kossornas planet besöker Förenade Arabemiraten, som är ett motsägelsefullt land. Här finns lyxen, oljan och de stora pengarna, men även projekt som Masdar City - en planerad ekostad helt utan koldioxidutsläpp och avfall. Möt svenska Johanna som bor i Dubai, men saknar Västerbottens friska luft. Följ med upp i världens högsta byggnad, Burj Khalifa. Träffa den svenske inredningsarkitekten Lars Waldenström som lade grunden till det moderna Dubai och dessutom ritat ett tiotal palats till Shejk Mohammed. Programledare: Lena Nordlund och Christer Engqvist