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Painting the Desert Green

Apr 11, 2011 9:47 PMNov 20, 2019 3:32 AM

Over at Frontier Earth, some riffing on a classic essay in Science, painted lawns in the desert, and a tiny step towards sustainability in Phoenix, Arizona.

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