Game of Drones
The eight-month old battle between the Lebanese state and anti-corruption activists has taken many forms: from street protests…
Invisible garbage, visible activism
One wealthy mountain suburb seems to have developed a unique technology to fight Lebanon’s garbage crisis. Or is…
From sewer to sea
I was on my way to drop off my recycling at Ziad’s recycling plant near the port of…
How to start recycling in Lebanon
As the video above states, a new initiative is finally allowing everyone to recycle in Lebanon. Beginning…
Save your bottles, support Lebanon’s glass industry
A lot of bottles will be piling up on the streets tonight. Soon they will be in landfills…
What fire? Local news didn’t see it.
(*Update below) As I type this, an Armageddon-shaped black cloud of smoke hangs over Beirut, caused by a…
Fires not considered fires by Lebanese authorities
This afternoon, smoke from multiple fires billowed out of a green valley in Mtaileb, a hillside Beirut suburb,…
How (not) to report pollution in Lebanon
For much of this afternoon, a luxury residential apartment building was transformed into a pollution spewing factory fit…