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Metabolic Foundation testing air quality sensor

ORANJESTAD – Recently, foundation tries to make
the Metabolic Foundation them more applicable in
had a replication session of order that they can also be
their air quality sensor "the used by people who are
first airbender", in connec- not scientists themselves.
tion with their Surfside Sci-
ence project. To guarantee that the
methods are trustworthy,
“If all goes well, they will throughout the year the
replicate this and we'll have foundation will be working
our 2nd airbender”, the or- together with marine ecol-
ganizers commented on ogist and environmental
a post on their Facebook engineer Tatiana Becker,
Page. “Our good friend of who will compare the re-
the foundation Jeff and our sults that Metabolic Foun-
new intern Steven studying dation measures with the
at the University of Aruba results that she will measure
are working on it.” using standard methods
generally used in science.
“One of our main goals is to With this, the foundation
make all our environment hopes to prove that their
monitoring methods repli- and collect will be open air and sea water, changes data collection on Aruba’s methods can be applied
cable and affordable. This source”, they said. in the coast landscape and coasts, both on land and on more beaches around
way we want to stimulate vegetation in the bottom in the ocean itself, close to Aruba.
any other islands that also Back in August, Metabolic of the ocean. Surfside Sci- the coast. Mettes indicat-
have a lack of data to start Foundation announced its ence is a project that re- ed that these methods are For more information,
to collect their data as well. Surfside Science project, ceived financing from RE- more affordable than tra- please visit science.
So everything we develop which focuses on methods SEMBID, which is a fund of ditional method, and the brenchies.com.q
for measuring the quality of the European Union man-
aged by Expertise France,
the collaboration agency
for French development
that manages projects in
the Overseas Countries
and Territories (OCT), which
include Aruba and 11 other
islands in the Caribbean.

The Surfside Science project
will have duration of one
year, and during that year,
Metabolic Foundation will
test different methods that
can be used to automate

MoU zero-emission vehicles

ORANJESTAD – The Govern- additional step is also taken
ment of Aruba, through the to stimulate more sustain-
ministry of Nature and the able practices in Aruba.
ministry of Economic Af-
fairs, signed a Memoran- As inhabitants of a small
dum of Understanding re- and arid island, the people
garding their focus so that of Aruba are aware of the
by 2030, 30 percent of all impact of climate change
vehicles medium duty and in our daily life and future.
heavy duty in our country Even so, we construct our
are zero-emission vehicles. community by dealing with
our vulnerabilities and by
This initiative is led by the establishing high ambitions
Dutch government and and even higher standards,
also CALSTART with its Glob- according to a press re-
al Commercial Vehicle lease.
Drive to Zero program.
Aruba has shown that it
The objective is to acceler- contributes to a collective
ate the cero-emission mar- impact when it comes to all who adopt these in their pects, like tourism for exam- fortifies Aruba’s commit-
ket, especially in the indus- modernization and adap- countries. Aruba also con- ple, but also sustainability. ment to a more sustainable
try of medium and heavy tation to sustainable prac- tinues leading the trend in future.q
duty vehicles. This way an tices, and the benefit is to the region in different as- With this initiative, the MOU