To explore the future and its limitless possible outcomes is a very challenging exercise. However difficult, it is the main aim of John Urry’s and Kingsley Dennis’ new book After the Car (Polity Press, 2009), which draws many interesting paths of what may be different shapes of the future. After reading the book, the Carbusters [...]
It’s now official: our politicians have decided to change the world and adopt more socially and environmentally responsible behaviour. The proof: during the UNFCCC conference in Copenhagen this December, the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs will buy 3,000 litres of a new generation of biofuel (one more). This new generation is made from plant waste, [...]
The development of carbon markets is a very fashionable idea among decisions-makers as a method to reduce CO2 emissions, but many insist that this idea essentially allows rich countries and companies to buy the right to continue polluting. An “innovator” from Minnesota, US, decided to make some money from those who believe in carbon offsetting, [...]
Anything can be “green” nowadays or at least that is what many industries and decision-makers will tell you, in order to prevent real changes and keep business running as usual. Hence, it is not surprising to learn that an “eco-motorway” (label created by Vinci, the company that built the motorway) opened in June in France. [...]
Walking is carfree. So what’s “Carfree Walking” all about you may ask? Carfree walking started as movement in the UK, aiming to encourage people who take recreational walks to use public transport instead of a car to get to the place they want to walk. Tim Woods from Car Free Walks, a UK website offering [...]
“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
-Leonardo da Vinci.
Nature is no longer of our concern, as humans – at least for a majority of humans that participate in todays environmental meltdown, [...]
Roll up! Roll up! It´s the great Ecotopia Biketour 2010 extravaganza!
Twenty years ago the first Ecotopia Biketour was organised to reach the Ecotopia gathering in a environmentaly acceptable way and to raise attention to environmental topics. After the first Ecotopia Biketour in 1990 every year another temporary eco caravan appeared in a different part of [...]
Please, a warm welcome for the addition of both “speed bumps” and “kinetic plates” to the never-ending list of current “green” sources of power. Based on the same idea as the old sleeping policemen, a new generation of “speed bumps” has landed on UK roads. They generate electricity as cars drive over them and are [...]
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