https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/08/turkey-da-biosphere/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:30:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/08/turkey-da-biosphere/#comment-15153 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:30:13 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=11421#comment-15153 […] the past, for example, the Turkish government tried to build a dam in the country’s only biosphere zone, despite the fact that the project would have required uprooting 600 trees in a forest that is home […]

]]> https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/08/turkey-da-biosphere/#comment-3735 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:34:15 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=11421#comment-3735 Here is another reason why it’s a priority for the Middle East to cooperate in resource trading: water from Turkey can run to water stressed Palestine, Jordan and Israel. In return it makes good economic and environmental sense to link the power grids of Egypt and Saudi Arabia (using natural gas, a better source than the coal Israel uses) to Israel, Palestine and up to Turkey via Jordan and Syria. This grid will carry wind and solar power when solar thermal and concentrated PV system go on line in the coming decade and balance out the drops of production that interspersed cloud cover causes.

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]]> https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/08/turkey-da-biosphere/#comment-3733 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:29:29 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=11421#comment-3733 Sounds like what’s happening in the bogs in the UK. Green power producers are marching in erecting wind turbines with little regard for nature and its aesthetics. Although in this case, it looks like a lot more than just the view will be ruined. This is a prime reason why industrialists need to be better educated on environmental issues.

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