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Volume 10, No.87, June 2005
CONTENTS

5

Useless knowledge, harmless ignorance (editorial by Najib Saab)

14
Green cities (cover story)
18 Al-Azhar Park resuscitates Cairo

24

Cities without slums

26

Life at the top: urban roof gardens

28
Charging into the future: London's green revolution
34
Living in radiation: tragedy of an Iraqi village polluted with depleted uranium
35
Curbing plastic bags in Algeria
44 Arab squandered resources
50 Alaska: a polar wonderland
56

Beirut's Garden Show

60 Coral reefs: a timeless treasure lost in 100 years
64 Kugurofu: a macrobiotic sanctuary in Japan
66 Passages of death: clearing landmines in Angola
68 Environmental solutions to energy problems
82 Human dignity and social progress (by Klaus Toepfer, UNEP's executive director)

Letters to the editor 6 - Environment in a month 8 -UNEP news 30 - Environment market 76 - Green library 78 - Calendar 80