One residential community in Dubai is reaping the benefits of a labour of love. Residents of The Sustainable City on Al Qudra Road are celebrating the "date season" — and how: They've just harvested a massive 50 tonnes of home-grown fruit. Five varieties of dates have been collected this year: Khalal, Khudri,...
The Sustainable City, the Middle East’s first fully operational sustainable community, has announced its plan to reduce the consumption of single-use plastic within the community by 90 percent as early as next year. The Sustainable City’s phase-out of single-use plastic – a significant environmental polluter with...
Signify and Diamond Developers, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) as part of their mutual commitment to utilize creative and innovative technologies and solutions designed to promote sustainability. The signing took place at Sustainable City, a Diamond Developers project and the first fully sustainable community...
General Motors Africa and Middle East recently announced that The Sustainable City, the region’s first fully operational sustainable community, has taken delivery of six new Chevrolet Bolt EVs for its alternative propulsion fleet. The new cars will be part of The Sustainable City’s car-sharing fleet, which will...
Faris Saeed, CEO of Diamond Developers on why he built The Sustainable City Diamond Developers, like many companies of its type, enjoyed high-profile successes at the peak of Dubai’s real estate boom. It was one of the first companies in Dubai to enter the freehold property and...
May 30, 2019 Dubai-based mountaineer Dolores Shelleh has become the first Arab woman to scale Mt. Everest from its toughest North Col terrain. She is also the first Jordanian and the second Serbian to accomplish the feat. Typically, the northern Col of Mt. Everest presents more altitude issues for climbers...
The Sustainable City, the first fully-operational sustainable community in the Middle East, has won five top laurels at the Gulf Real Estate Awards 2019 including the ‘Happiest Community’ Award for the third consecutive year. In addition to being voted as the “Overall Winner’ the community...
Sharjah is to build a Dh2 billion “mini-city” occupying 7.2 million square feet and featuring up to 1,120 villas that will be run fully on renewable energy sources. The location for Sharjah Sustainable City — as it will be known — is the Umm Fannian...
We welcomed a visit from Akon and a delegation from Akon Lighting America in The Sustainable City. The delegation visited the different facilities within the city and explore our integration of clean energy sources. During this visit, The Sustainable City hosted the Million Solar Stars...
The Sustainable City, the Middle East’s first fully-operational sustainable community, has named one of the Ghaf trees in the community as ‘The Tree of Tolerance’ to mark the celebration of the ‘Year of Tolerance’. This follows the Ghaf tree being selected as the logo for the...
