Greening Up Gitmo

By Staff
Published on April 21, 2008
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Prius drivers may think they’re green, but they’ve got nothing on Guantanamo Bay. The symbol of American power abuse gets 30 percent of its electricity from on-site wind turbines, <a title=”Vince Beiser writes for <I>Mother Jones</I>” href=”http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/05/fossil-fools.html” target=”_blank”>Vince Beiser writes for <i>Mother Jones</i>
</a>. In fact, Beiser reports that the Pentagon is “vying to be the country’s largest consumer of earth-friendly energy.” No word yet on plans to reuse water from waterboarding.</p>
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