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North East Strategy For The Environment
Environment Editor for The Journal, Tony Henderson comments on the NE region's first strategy to protect one of its greatest assets - the environment. Among the issues which the strategy examines is Transport.
May 18, 2008
What's Your Carbon Footyprint?
Travelling to football matches creates a larger carbon footprint than building the stadium, catering or waste management - says Mark Hillsdon in "Green Futures" number 68.
The article encourages the use of public transport, car sharing, or even watching the match in the pub with friends rather than travelling to the stadium at all!
May 14, 2008
As petrol shortages loom, ACT TravelWise advise employers to get their staff to work sustainably
Surging oil prices and local threats to petrol supply have increased the imperative for employers to engage in travel planning.
May 7, 2008
Work Wise Week - 15th to 21st May 2008
A week of highlighting Smarter Working, a different theme for each day - culminating in the Work Wise Summit in London "Business and the Environment".
For more information see:
Work Wise website
Work Wise North East website
May 2, 2008
London's Mayoral Elections - and Transport
As London’s mayoral elections turn up the heat on transport policy, our national politicians need to look and learn, says Peter Madden (Chief Executive, Forum for the Future).
April 30, 2008
How The Rich Starved The World
The lengths we are prepared to go to in order to protect 'our right to drive' really is quite astonishing. This article from The New Statesman concludes, "If all plant life was seen as potentially convertible for transport fuel, there would be nothing to stop what was left of the planet's biosphere from being strip-mined to keep rich motorists on the road."
Driving less and cycling and walking more appears a slightly more sensible alternative to killing the planet.
Source: ACT TravelWise e-newsletter April 2008
April 23, 2008
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