Posts Tagged ‘footprint’
For sprawling cities
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3 Feb 2010James Heartfield has an article on the newgeography website celebrating what he calls dispersed settlements and others deride as urban sprawl. He concludes that: “Far from being necessarily de-humanising, dispersed settlements are an opportunity for an enlargement of the human spirit. To imagine that there is anything in physical proximity that is essential to community […]
- Tags: cities, development, footprint, television
Me on global equality on Worldbyes
3 Oct 2008Worldwrite’s latest Worldbytes television programme includes an item with me talking about global inequality. Other stories include challenging China bashing, a scientist talks about waste and an alien’s take on carbon footprints.
Now water gets a footprint too
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20 Aug 2008The annual World Water Week in Stockholm seems to be an occasion for an outpouring of panic about global water shortages. BBC Two’s flagship Newsnight programme has already fallen for it (see Monday’s post) and now, not surprisingly given its environmentalist leanings, the Guardian has too. The lead news story in today’s paper gave credence […]
- Tags: consumption, environment, footprint, water
More of more-is-less
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17 Aug 2008Miller-McCune magazine, a publication from the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy in California, has a useful review essay by David Villano on the “more-is-less” thesis. In other words it examines (sympathetically) the argument that it is possible to be more prosperous while consuming less. Many of the points it makes are familiar […]
- Tags: affluenza, America, book, climate, consumption, environment, footprint, inequality, progress, review, sustainability
Debating the mobile “footprint”
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3 Oct 2007I have written a short contribution to the spiked debate on the idea of a mobile “footprint”: The idea of a mobile footprint is meaningless in practical terms. Just think about how much carbon dioxide it takes to produce a particular mobile phone. If the energy used is generated from nuclear or hydroelectric power it […]
- Tags: footprint, spiked, technology
TV documentary on human footprint
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27 Apr 2007I was planning to do a brief review of last night’s television programme on the human footprint. The programme reduces human life to consumption and waste. To quote the Channel 4 website: “From our babyhood – when we get through a massive 3,796 nappies and produce 254 litres of urine – through to our old […]
- Tags: footprint, spiked, sustainability, television
New York Salon on the human footprint
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11 Feb 2007The New York Salon is having a public meeting on “the human footprint” this coming Tuesday. I wish I could go along but I will be on the other side of the Atlantic.
- Tags: America, environment, footprint
More footprint folly
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24 Oct 2006The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has published its latest Living Planet Report (PDF), its biennial statement on the state of the natural world. Its Living Planet Index suggests that global biodiversity has declined by 30% since 1970 and its Ecological Footprint indicates that the UK is living a “three planet lifestyle”. WWF’s UK website welcomes […]
- Tags: economics, footprint, sustainability
Footprint folly
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9 Oct 2006Today is the day the world goes into ecological overdraft, according to the lead story in today’s Independent. A report by the New Economics Foundation, in partnership with the Global Footprint Network, finds that until 9 October the world’s population was using up sustainable resources. But from now until the end of the year it […]
- Tags: economics, footprint, sustainability
More on One Planet Living
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2 Oct 2006On closer examination it seems that the idea of “one planet living” originated with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) rather than the government (see 30 September dispatch). David Miliband, the environment minister, credited the WWF with the idea in a speech on the idea of an “environmental contract” on 19 July. He also wrote a […]
- Tags: economics, environment, footprint, sustainability
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