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Report from a Carbon Front Line: Australia
I am writing to you from a city which has been certified ‘carbon neutral’ as part of its undertaking to become one of the world’s most sustainable cities: Melbourne. At the same time, this is a country which measured per capita is the developed world’s largest carbon polluter – with every citizen responsible for around … Continue reading
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about how our daily routines affect the climate, and vice versa. Take travel, for instance. Tourists – our economy depends on them – have to fly long distances to get to New Zealand, which means a lot of carbon emissions. But even those of us who aren’t here … Continue reading
Celebrating the new London cycling scheme, the Economist writes: Getting people onto bikes for short journeys has to be a good idea in a city where the alternatives are breathtakingly expensive taxis, sweaty and overcrowded underground trains and buses that often crawl along congested streets. And the scheme has laudable ambitions. As Boris Johnson, London’s … Continue reading
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