Anyone wanting a get away to an exotic luxury home on the cheap needs to check out this bargain (via boingBoing)
more photos at NatGeo
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or maybe you would like an alternative and live in an eco friendly city: Masdar city in Abu Dhabi:
Inside the square, surrounded by Masdar’s signature, futuristic buildings, a variety of businesses showed off their recycled products, fair trade jewelry, and organic food, while organizations such as the Abu Dhabi Environment Agency discussed important environmental issues such as plastic pollution. Heavy on meat dishes common to the region, the cafeteria offered scant vegetarian options, but products available at the organic food store and Mazaraa farm filled in the gaps.
Although well-attended, all was not smooth. Only one set of bathrooms was available for the throng, Mazaraa organic farm nearly cooked their ducks and goats alive in the roaring sun, and visitors had to line up for a solid 20-30 minutes in order to ride the pod cars back to their own
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the two faces of the Arab world: One inward looking and embracing a non existent past and killing those who don't agree,
another with a history of trading with the world for a millennium, and building the future and welcoming all.
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If you read it carefully about the meat, what they mean is it was "fresh", i.e. killed on the spot. Yes, it sounds yukky to rich Americans, but here in the Philippines we know that means no "double dead" or spoiled meat.
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