(Interesting article on new devlopment popping up in Lybia. I like that she says the meditteranean is turning into a gaint swimming pool surrounded by concrete devlopments)
A Green Resort Is Planned to Preserve Ruins and Coastal Waters
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: October 16, 2007
CYRENE, Libya — In this remote eastern region of Libya, where the bleak hills resemble a lunar landscape, the Green Mountain Sustainable Development Area is the latest in a spate of recently announced projects that form a sort of environmental coming-out party for this former pariah country.
Fleets of white Mercedes vans ferried guests along newly paved roads for a lamb dinner among the ruins and a signing ceremony presided over by Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, eldest son of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

In an area where many residents are illiterate, newly erected signs in crisp white and blue say “Airport” in Arabic and English. Development is coming to town.

In an area the size of Wales centered on the Greek ruin here, the younger Qaddafi, a group of wealthy Libyans and a bevy of consultants are planning a carbon neutral green-development zone, catering to tourism and serving as a model for environmentally friendly design, they say.
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