Refworld | Women's Rights in Lebanon

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Women In Technology | WIT Lebanon Profile

Women In Technology | WIT Lebanon Profile

homes made of recycled plastic

Oscar Mendez builds homes with plastic prefab bricks, made of recycled plastic.
If we started doing the same in Lebanon, we would divert plastic from the waste stream and create affordable adobe homes!

Electronic Band-Aid shapes as alternative to antibiotics

maybe a tool that alternative medicine will pick up one day: Electronic Band-Aid shapes as alternative to antibiotics



Alternative medicine, much like organic farming is sometimes misconstrued as low tech, but I think it's meant to be the pursuit of the right tech.

isolation is bad for seniors, and what of our senior parents?

A Harvard doctor is bringing pets into nursing homes to save seniors from isolation, and the resulting decline on health. In the meanwhile our foreign parents are isolated from their immigrating children, when immigration departments consider them to not be immediate family. They can only come to the US and Canada for visits. These are parents who dedicated their lives to secure our fitire against some difficult odds. As a result we can productive in multiple countries, pay taxes and someone else's pension, but not our parents'. They are considered a burden, all while the system profits from their investment in us.  Our parents are rewarded with precisely the isolation and loneliness that crush seniors according to Dr. Thomas, even though they earned the right to be close to us wherever we might live, and to receive emotional and financial support.

why urban forests

The benefits or urban trees by FAO

Germany recognizes Armenian genocide

It's good to see Germany catch up to Lebanon, and recognize the Armenian genocide. Maybe this will slow down neo-ottomans who fuelled ISIS.