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Vegas on steroids: meet Dubai

September 23, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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carbonfootprint, desert, dubai, masdar, smartgrowth, sustainability, sustainabledevelopment, water, ziggurat

    For me, a post about Dubai (the amazing pace of construction shown above) must begin with some thoughts about Las Vegas and about the king of rock'n'roll, who performed in that city often and whose impersonators there remain legion. ...continued

This beach in Dubai is really cool

December 18, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
beach, dubai, hotel, palazzoversace, refrigeratedbeach

  Jonathan Leake writes in The Sunday Times (London): "Versace, the renowned fashion house, is to create the world's first refrigerated beach so that hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. "The beach will be next...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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