Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Can Phoenix remake its desert-gobbling ways? GRIST
Grist

Sol searching

Hope for a desert delinquent:
What Phoenix — the poster child
for environmental ills — is doing right

GRIST — 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 locally as the Brown Cloud shadows the city. And that's not the only affront to the environs here.

So how is it that this poster child for sprawl and environmental ills is being hailed -- albeit by its own government -- as an exemplar of sustainability? City leaders are quick to tell anyone willing to listen that not only are they finally getting hip to environmental matters, they've been attending to some of them for upwards of 30 years.

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