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...militia is accused of that war's worst human-rights atrocity, in which hundreds of his captives suffocated to death after having been locked inside shipping containers. He denies the charges. Samimi is not concerned about Dostum's wartime activities--few if any of Afghanistan's leaders can boast clean hands after three decades of war. The problem, she says, is that the warlords and their militia commanders continue to commit crimes with impunity, protected by their alliances with foreign nations and comfortable positions within the Afghan government...
...world's first zero-carbon-footprint, zero-waste settlement--the embodiment of this oil-rich Arab city's surprisingly green dreams. "This is bringing attention and capital from around the world to Abu Dhabi," says Khoreibi. "We're going to use this as a launching pad for clean development...
...Arab Emirates is the world's eighth biggest producer of petroleum. But the leaders of Abu Dhabi know--perhaps better than most--that the oil won't last forever, so they have embarked on the Masdar Initiative, a multibillion-dollar push to establish the emirate as a center for clean-technology development and innovation. Those plans include Masdar City, designed by British architect Norman Foster, as well as a $250 million clean-tech investment fund and an energy-engineering school linked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If it all works, this desert emirate could become the Saudi Arabia...
...momentum going at WFES by announcing that at least 7% of its electricity would come from renewable sources by 2020, up from nothing today. Nor, said Masdar officials, would the recession have a major impact on the emirate's plans, announced last year, to invest $15 billion in clean energy--an amount equal to what President Barack Obama has suggested spending annually for the entire U.S. "We are looking beyond the current financial crisis," says Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Masdar's CEO. "But all our projects are still proceeding...
...Star Trek.) More prosaically, the 2.3-sq.-mi. (6 sq km) walled community will have a solar-powered desalination plant, and conservation will keep water use 60% below the norm. The city's centerpiece will be the Masdar Institute, a graduate academy that will churn out new experts in clean energy. The hope is that a pool of educated workers--plus Masdar's favorable tax policies--will draw green companies to the desert, where they will be able to test their ideas in an environmental Utopia. "There is a visionary component to it," says Frank Mastiaux, CEO of climate...