Giant mirrors reflect a distorted desert landscape at the site of a renewable energy pilot project in southern Israel. (photo by the author)
Unlike many of her colleagues, Dorit Banet does not speak in terms of 'making the desert bloom.' The time-honored Israeli adage, worn out from decades of overuse, is apparently not part of her lexicon. For Banet, who is in charge of strategic and regional development at the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Administration in southern Israel, old clichés have no place in her vision for the region's future. Under the radar, she and her associates have been working for the past few y...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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