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 Stories About: climate AND ecological footprint AND Nevada
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Leaving Las Vegas
What's the ecological footprint of the gambling industry? |
Tom Athanasiou |
26 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I won't explain how it came to pass that -- only two days after a trip to NYC to present Greenhouse Development Rights at a meeting of the UN's Committee for Development Policy -- I went to Las Vegas. I will say that that my wife, an Aussie, wanted to see the place, that we have a 11-year-old boy, and that the Hilton contains an installation honoring the United Federation of Planets. (The flag of which has a notable similarity to the one displayed in the UN's o ... |
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| Topics: climate, ecological footprint, Nevada (all these topics) |
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