The RISE2030 team believes that women and solar energy are crucial to Lebanon's environmental future and job opportunities in rural communities.
Zoap Lebanon is using the humble bar of soap - made from recycled cooking oil - to promote environmental and social change in Lebanon's capital.
Beirut-based furniture designer Collect to Create wants the whole of Lebanon to get excited about upcycling old junk into new, useful products.
Lebanese fashion designer Aya Hoteit had a revelation: clothing could be both sustainable and exciting. Her label, CIVVIES, is out to prove that point.
Michel de Bustros had a vision when he inherited a large plot of land in the 1950s.
Lebanon’s charming nature and mountain trails are attractions that have been gaining travelers and backpackers’ attention. What’s often missing is eco-initiatives that can employ such nature and rolling plains.
In 2015, a heightened garbage crisis loomed in Lebanon. Georges Bitar was an active part at the time, trying with others to collect and sort trash.
It all started when Salim Kabbara, angered by the site of Lebanon’s streets and beaches, decided to launch a small campaign for a beach clean-up in Tripoli, northwest of Lebanon.
“My childhood friend and I were faced with this issue of rehabilitated drug addicts being turned away from jobs,” George Ghafary says.
Bassel Baaklini wasn’t happy about the state of waste and waste disposal in Lebanon. “Each year we generate over 1.5 million tons of garbage,” he notes.
There was an issue plaguing Koura in northern Lebanon Lebanon and that is the lack of clean, portable water for its residents and refugees.
