What does it say that one of the largest producers of oil, The United Arab Emirates, is aggressively developing renewable energy? Clearly the country is thinking about a world beyond fossil energies.
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The world's tallest building has been opened with a dramatic fireworks ceremony in the Gulf emirate of Dubai.
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Relief goods continued to pour into Taiwan from abroad yesterday, while the United States is dispatching two heavy-lift helicopters, one of which is expected to arrive today to carry large crane excavators to the flood-ravaged area to help re-open blocked routes of transportation.
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Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE -
The Masdar Headquarters building will produce more power than it needs (an energy positive building).
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Masdar City, UAE -
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has started construction of its so-called 'green city,' which will be named Masdar City.
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The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi starts building what it says is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste car-free city.
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England -
Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.
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Dubai, UAE -
The United Arab Emirates plans to start building a multi-billion-dollar green city in the desert in the first quarter of this year, as the oil producer looks to become a pioneer of alternative energy.
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Hat Creek, California -
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
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Oslo, Norway -
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
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Source: Renewable Energy World, Wed September 01, 2010 
