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Hope for a Desert Delinquent
What Phoenix, the poster child for environmental ills, is doing right |
Lisa Selin Davis |
13 May 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Can Phoenix remake its desert-gobbling ways? In order for Phoenix to truly be a green city, it would have to be brown. Or not brown, exactly, but the sandy shade of the mountains that surround it: the jagged peaks and parched hills that enclose the Valley of the Sun. These days, though, Phoenix is a less-natural shade of brown; a ring of smoggy pollution known locall ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, climate, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, urban planning (all these topics) |
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