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ABU DHABI AIMS TO BUILD FIRST CARBON-NEUTRAL CITY
NPR, May 06, 2008 · The future is now, and it sounds like something from a William Gibson novel: "In Abu Dhabi, there's an area of nothing but wind-swept desert. But 10 years from now, if all goes according to plan, a city of 6 square kilometers housing 50,000 people will rise in the United Arab Emirates — and it will be carbon neutral. The project, called Masdar City, will burn no gas or oil. Masdar is the centerpiece of emirate Abu Dhabi's plans to get into the renewable energy market, a hedge against the day its oil wells run dry."
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DON'T (ALWAYS) BELIEVE THE (ORGANIC) HYPE
NPR, June 21, 2007 · For many, eating right means eating organic. Cindy Burke, author of To Buy or Not to Buy Organic, says organic doesn't always mean better. In this informative segment, Burke compares and contrasts conventional, organic, sustainable, and local foods by taking the economic, environmental and health costs of each into account.
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