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Dubai, UAE, 24 April 2015: Green Stand, at WETEX 2015, which is part of Green Week 2015, has received an overwhelming response where visitors were updated on the latest practices and community-related activities to promote green practices.
Green Stand has moved today to Mirdif City Centre featuring various environmental activities including Green Ribbon corner, a tour for DEWA's mascots Noor and Hayat, workshops for children including a sewing corner, a handicraft corner, a self-portrait corner, social media corner, Arabic hospitality corner, scientific presentations, children's games corner and competitions and prizes for visitors. DEWA urged all community segments to participate in the Green Week which is being held until 27 April. DEWA also runs a series of awareness activities in Deira City Centre and Mall of the Emirates.
While it was held at WETEX from 21 to 23 April, the stand displayed recycled products and a variety of electrical experiments provided by schools and universities including water purification technologies.
The booths at the Green Stand included the Lootah Technology Centre, which demonstrated an electric car that can carry two passengers and uses a rechargeable battery. This car is intended to help decrease carbon emissions. The booth also displayed solar panels and automated cars operating through solar energy.
Al Azba School displayed in its booth a sample of a solar energy park that powers technologies such as fans, irrigation systems, electrical equipment and lighting products. All these products are being developed by students from this school.
Green Wood International displayed its students' innovations in recycled products decorated with cartoons, and using paper, and plastics that were all converted into artistic images at the show and also to its system to desalinate water. Ajman University for Science and Technology also showcased chairs manufactured from recycled material like cartoons and water pipes. Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University and Sharjah University also participated at the Green Stand.
Al Yousuf Electronics representing LG products has displayed at the Green Stand a model of houses dependent on solar systems generated via oblique roofs instead of tiled ceilings. Also, Al Ittihad Private School showcased paintings made of recycled paper and cardboard materials as well as lighting and ventilation models developed by its students that operate through solar energy.
Al Ma'arifa International Private School explained at the Green Stand how wind could generate energy through the use of big fans while students from Dubai Modern Education School displayed solar electrical switches and irrigation systems that use treated water. They also showcased a small unit for producing bio-gases from poultry wastes to generate thermal, optical and electrical energy. They explained that this unit also uses the access water in producing organic fertilizers.
Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University and Sharjah University also participated at the Green Stand by conducting presentations on a variety of solutions pertaining to sectors of WETEX 2015.
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