It is easy to think of America as the land of Hummer-driving, ginormous burger-eating environmental vandals, but of course there are good green things happening there. The Economist this week has two interesting accounts:
* the first big concentrating solar power plant since the 80s (who says solar isn’t a “mature technology”?) has just been opened in Nevada.
* there’s apparently (by the Economist’s judgement anyway) a boom in green building. What that it were the same in Britain – whenever I catch the train those hideous quasi-Georgian brick boxes packed on the outskirts of towns and villages make me despair.
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