Marketplace

Ready, set... build a better city

The race is on to create the first fully-sustainable city.

China's planning to take a deserted island the size of Manhattan and turn it into an eco-city for about half a million people. No conventional cars will be allowed and the city will capture and purify water. It'll be just an hour ferry ride from Shanghai, so how they're going to stop mainland pollution from drifting over we're not sure...

Meanwhile in Abu Dhabi, they want to build a smaller, walled city that's being called the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city.

Any other takers?

Permalink | Comments (0)

Bugs Bunny learning Arabic

Abu Dhabi has done a billion-dollar deal with Warner Brothers. The entertainment company is going to be a giant theme park and theater complex in the Persian Gulf emirate -- and it's created a fund to make Arabic language movies and video games there.

Permalink | Comments (0)

Why is U.S. military spending so much for fuel in Iraq

We've all winced at recent prices at the pump and here's more reason to wince.

U.S. forces in Iraq are spending almost as much as we are.

The Pentagon says the military is spending about $153 million dollars a month in Iraq on fuel -- that includes gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

U.S. authorities say Iraq's oil revenue could approach $60 billion dollars this year.

Democratic Sen. Carl Levin and Republican John Warner are asking why taxpayers are footing a large part of Iraq's reconstruction costs at a time the country's earning billions from oil.

Permalink | Comments (0)