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City in The Desert
Eco riddle: If green is good ...
... what is greening of the desert?
For some time now desert developments have been constructed as though they could have been constructed anywhere else. Large sections of the desert are being turned into high maintenance lawn. Levels of energy and water consumption are representing immense ecological cost.
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