البصمة الكربونية

 

Mohamed ElsayedMohamed Elsayed • FollowingFollowingFacilities Maintenance management | Expert in Operations Management, Contract Negotiation & Strategic Facility Optimization | Proven Track Record in Industrial & Real Estate ProjectsFacilities Maintenance management | Expert in Operations Management, Contract Negotiation & Strategic Facility Optimization | Proven Track Record in Industrial & Real Estate Projects
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ماذا تعرف عن البصمة الكربونية فى كلمتين 

هي إجمالي كمية الغازات الدفيئة التي تنتج عن الأنشطة البشرية اليومية ، سواء كانت فردية أو مؤسسية ، وتقاس بوحدة مكافئ ثاني أكسيد الكربون (CO2e) تشمل هذه الأنشطة استخدام الطاقة ، النقل، إنتاج السلع، والزراعة، وتعد مؤشرًا مهمًا لقياس التأثير البيئي ومكافحة تغير المناخ.

تنتج البصمة الكربونية عن طريق ما يلى :

١- عمليات حرق الوقود الأحفوري ( الفحم الحجرى – الغاز الطبيعى – النفط الخام ) : واللى بيستخدم في توليد الكهرباء وتشغيل المصانع

٢- عمليات إزالة الغابات : واللى بتتسبب في إطلاق غاز ثاني اكسيد الكربون في الغلاف الجوي.

٢- عمليات الانتاج الصناعية : واللى بتكون فى المصانع المختلفة واللى بتطلق كميات كبيرة من الانبعاثات.

٣- عمليات الزراعة وتربية المواشي: واللى بتساهم في انبعاث انواع اخرى من الغازات الدفيئة ، مثل غاز الميثان خاصة من الماشية.

٤- عمليات الاستهلاك اليومي : عادات الأفراد اليومية زى استخدام الكهرباء، واستهلاك المنتجات المستوردة ، وإدارة النفايات.

طيب ليه لازم نقيس البصمة الكربونية ونعرف مستواها :

١- الوعي البيئي : يساعد قياس البصمة الكربونية على فهم كيفية تأثير الأنشطة اليومية على البيئة ، مما يشجع على اتخاذ قرارات أكثر استدامة.

٢- تخفيف التكاليف : يمكن للشركات والأفراد تقليل النفقات عن طريق تحسين كفاءة استهلاك الطاقة وتقليل الهدر.

٣- الالتزام باللوائح : يساعد قياس البصمة الكربونية الشركات على الامتثال لمعايير الاستدامة البيئية والقوانين المتعلقة بالانبعاثات.

٤- تحسين سمعة العلامة التجارية : الشركات التي تعمل على خفض بصمتها الكربونية تحظى بولاء وثقة أكبر من المستهلكين.

ما هي أضرار البصمة الكربونية المرتفعة

١- تغير المناخ والاحتباس الحراري : تؤدي زيادة انبعاثات الغازات الدفيئة إلى ارتفاع درجة حرارة الكوكب، مما يتسبب في تغيرات مناخية متطرفة.

٢- ارتفاع منسوب البحار: تساهم درجات الحرارة المرتفعة في ذوبان الأنهار الجليدية والصفائح الجليدية، مما يرفع منسوب مياه البحار والمحيطات.

٣- زيادة حموضة المحيطات : يمتص المحيط كميات كبيرة من ثاني أكسيد الكربون، مما يسبب زيادة حموضته ويضر بالنظم البيئية البحرية.

٤- تدهور جودة الهواء : تساهم الانبعاثات في تلوث الهواء، مما يؤثر سلبًا على صحة الإنسان.

٥- فقدان التنوع البيولوجي : يؤدي تغير المناخ إلى تهديد العديد من الكائنات الحية بالانقراض نتيجة تغير بيئاتها الطبيعية .

كيف نساهم في تقليل البصمة الكربونية؟

للأفراد: ترشيد استهلاك الطاقة، استخدام المواصلات العامة، تقليل النفايات.

للشركات: اعتماد كفاءة الطاقة، التحول للطاقة النظيفة، تطوير استراتيجيات ESG.

للحكومات: دعم المشروعات الخضراء، تطبيق معايير الانبعاثات، استثمارات مستدامة.

الهدف الاساسى من ضرورة خفض البصمة الكربونية :

البصمة الكربونية هي مرآة تعكس تأثيرنا على الكوكب و خفضها يعني حماية صحتنا ، اقتصادنا ، وأجيالنا القادمة

Dis-Governance

 

Of Flooded Airports and Broken Toilet Doors:

Our National Crisis of ‘Dis-governance’

The recent spectacle of our world-class airport terminal knee-deep in floodwater, a chaotic sequel to the perennial breakdown of its aerotrains, was more than just an operational failure. It was a perfect, damning metaphor for the state of our nation. We have become an international laughing stock not for a lack of ambition, but for a fundamental failure in execution. This is not merely bad luck or poor management; it is a systemic disease we must name and confront: Dis-governance.

Dis-governance is the systematic breakdown where our institutions, despite their size and budget, fail to provide basic order and services, resulting in administrative paralysis. It is the utter inability of different government silos to coordinate and produce positive outcomes for the citizens. The flooded airport is just the tip of the melting iceberg. Look around: new toll roads that inexplicably create more congestion, immigration boundaries more porous than a teabag, brazen kidnappings in broad daylight, chronic disruptions of water supply, and violence in schools. The list is a depressing litany of a social contract fraying at the edges.

This malaise is felt most acutely where Malaysians live their daily lives. If you reside in one of our many public housing estates, Dis-governance is your daily reality. It is the infuriating sight of rubbish bags perpetually flung from windows and vehicles parked indiscriminately, blocking access for the elderly and persons with disabilities. These are not complex problems. Yet, officials seem tied in impossible bureaucratic knots, unable to implement simple and consistent enforcement. This inability to plan sensibly and enforce basic rules sends a corrosive signal: the system is broken and respect for the law is optional. Is it any surprise, then, that public safety issues and deviant behaviour fester in these neglected spaces?

At the heart of Dis-governance lies a crippling lack of accountability. When nobody is truly responsible for producing outcomes, nobody feels compelled to act. A recent, heartbreaking example illustrates this perfectly: a bank offered a local school resources for improvements. The students themselves identified broken toilet doors as a pressing issue. Yet, despite the funding being available, a solution was stymied by an absurd paralysis. The teachers, the headmaster, and the local education office could not navigate their own internal processes to agree on fixing a few doors. When a child’s simple plea for dignity is lost in a labyrinth of inaction, we have moved beyond red tape into a pathology of failure.

How did we get here? Dis-governance is the direct result of a nation that evolved economically, but whose institutions did not. Since independence, our population has grown more than fivefold, and almost 80% of us now live in urban areas. Yet, our governance structures remain ossified, designed for a different time and a different demographic. There is a cavernous mismatch between the public service delivery system and the needs of 21st-century Malaysians.

Our challenges have transformed. We are no longer a nation solely fighting malaria, infant mortality, and illiteracy. Today, our aspirations are about the quality of life in our neighbourhoods, driving innovation, building world-class services, and nurturing happy, healthy families—the very goals of the Madani framework. Yet, we are hamstrung by anachronisms. Parental anxiety over education reform has been an election staple for two decades, yet instead of producing globally competitive graduates, the national conversation is sidetracked by debates over shoe colour and, as we now know, an inability to manage even basic maintenance.

This daily failure to deliver breeds deep public cynicism. The grey area between the existence of rules and the inability to enforce them becomes a fertile breeding ground for corruption. When people see that the system does not work for them, they lose faith. This erodes trust, breeds resentment, and ultimately unravels the social cohesion that holds our nation together.

The government must recognise that this is a systemic problem. It cannot be fixed with piecemeal initiatives or incremental tweaks at the margins. Tinkering with SOPs or announcing one-off committees is like placing a band-aid on a gaping wound. What we need is a serious, courageous, and comprehensive overhaul of the entire system. This requires re-imagining the synergistic roles of the public sector, the private sector, and civil society, empowering them with clarity, accountability, and a singular focus on outcomes. We must dismantle the architecture of Dis-governance and build in its place a system that is agile, accountable, and truly responsive to the people it serves. The floodwaters at our airport have receded, but the tide of public frustration is rising. We must act before we are all submerged.

The ancient wisdom of Confucius rings with a chilling prescience for Malaysia today: “Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed.” The warning could not be clearer. It is long past time to change our direction.

Mohideen Abdul Kader

President

Consumers’ Association of Penang

الازدحام المروري

 

لعله الظاهرة الأكثر ضجيجاً في العالم المتنامي، حيث تتداخل فيه العديد من العوامل والمؤثرات الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والإدارية والتنفيذية، بل والسياسية

الازدحام المروري هو عَرض لمرض أسمه "فشل التخطيط العمراني" .. الكثيرين يتعاملون مع التخطيط العمراني من واقع "صناديق" تخصاصتهم, وليس من حقيقة أنه عملية معرفية شاملة، لا تتم بواسطة إدارة أو مركز بعينه، بل بواسطة تجمع للمتخصصين "المؤهلين" وفق آلية ذات حوكمة لتمحيص واتخاذ القرارات الملائمة .. ولعل مقارنة العديد من البلدان والمدن تفيد في بناء أنموذج ومرجعية للنجاح .. في تقديري الخاص، أن "الديمقراطية العمرانية" الحقيقية والفاعلة تؤدي للقرارات التنفيذية الأكثر صواباً، حيث تكون هناك محاسبة "جماعية" على التقصير أو التساهل أو المغالاة أو التجاهل .. وللأسف، بين الديمقراطية العمرانية والسياسية حوار صعب وشائك ومتشعب

Msheireb

 

By Yasser Elsheshtawy

October 31, 2025,

Msheireb Downtown, a district celebrated as one of the world’s most sustainable urban developments.

From the first step, the design impressed: shaded walkways, a quiet tram slipping between buildings, and hidden underground parking keeping the streets free for pedestrians. It was an architectural vision of the future – cool, efficient and beautifully composed.

And yet, it felt lifeless. Msheireb had achieved climate resilience but lost something just as vital: social life.

That contradiction lies at the heart of the Gulf’s new urban dilemma – how to build cities that can endure rising heat and water scarcity without sacrificing the spontaneity and inclusiveness that make urban life worth living.

The development of Msheireb also came at a cost. Its construction led to the removal and erasure of Najada, a traditional old neighbourhood located just across from the site.

Najada had long been home to a thriving South Asian community – tailors, small traders and craftspeople who animated its narrow streets and courtyards.

In their place now stands a new district of glass and stone, its polished surfaces concealing the memory of old Doha.

What was once a living neighbourhood of exchange and informality has been replaced by a curated environment, sterile, exclusive and detached from its social past

To continue reading:
https://www.agbi.com/opinion/infrastructure/2025/10/resilient-but-empty-the-human-dilemma-facing-gulf-cities/

Edible neighborhoods

 

Louis De JaegerLouis De Jaeger Verified • 2ndFood Forest & Landscape Designer Award-winning filmmaker & Author 👉 Commensalist & Eat More Trees & Food Forest Institute 🌏 40u40🌳 Food Forest & Landscape Designer 🚜 Award-winning filmmaker & Author 👉 Commensalist & Eat More Trees & Food Forest Institute 🌏 40u40
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Edible neighborhoods are not the future
They are already here
Now we just need to transform all neihgborhoods
Starting in your street :)
Rijnvliet in Utrecht became the first edible neighbourhood of the Netherlands.
A place where streets grow pears.
Where a central food forest of fifteen thousand square meters produces apples, persimmons and berries.
Where children learn under the trees instead of between concrete walls.
Where residents walk on a canopy path to pick nuts and fruits from mature crowns.
Where every plant has a purpose for people, insects or soil life. 
This is what happens when a city stops decorating and starts producing.

• Every street contains edible trees and shrubs
• Seven layers of vegetation support biodiversity and cooling
• A digital tree map shows what to harvest and when
• A food forest teacher gives nature lessons
• Residents co-manage the ecosystem with the city
• Workshops, harvest days and wild foraging walks build community

Most people talk about climate resilience but this neighbourhood built it 
If every urban expansion in Europe followed this model, we would create millions of square meters of climate-proof landscapes within a decade.
Imagine your city built like this and that your street starts feeding you.

The masterplan was created by De Zwarte Hond, Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners designed it together with Xavier San Giorgi

Original post and picture by the brilliant Vincent Luyendijk
Check out: www.defijnestad.nl

𝟱 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀

 

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 𝟱 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 hashtag#𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 hashtag#𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀

 In our opinion one of the biggest barriers to growth in our profession aren’t lack of data, funding, or political will. They’re the mental loops many planners keep playing on repeat. Here are five that need to be erased permanently.

🔹1. “Urban planning is a technical discipline.”
Wrong. It’s political, social, economic, and cultural before it’s technical. GIS layers, mobility models, or zoning codes are tools, not the craft. If you believe your job ends at data visualization, you’ve already lost relevance.

🔹2. “Good plans speak for themselves.”
They don’t. Plans don’t speak people do. If you can’t defend your proposal in front of politicians, citizens, and investors, it doesn’t matter how sustainable, resilient, or smart it is. Communication is as essential as design.

🔹3. “The public doesn’t understand planning.”
They do they just don’t understand our jargon. If your work can’t be explained in two minutes to a local shop owner or a journalist, the problem isn’t public ignorance, it’s professional arrogance.

🔹4. “Innovation comes from big cities or international firms.”
False. Real innovation happens in constraints in small municipalities experimenting with tactical urbanism, in informal settlements adapting faster than our bureaucracies, in communities co-designing their own futures. Scale doesn’t equal creativity.

🔹5. “My job is to plan for others.”
No. Your job is to plan with others. The age of top-down masterplans is over. If you’re still sketching from your desk instead of walking the street, talking to residents, and co-producing with interdisciplinary teams, you’re designing nostalgia, not cities.

👉Urban planning is stuck not because we lack vision but because some planners are still defending obsolete mental models. The next generation of planners won’t be measured by how much they know, but by how much they unlearn.