Extinction Rebellion has occupied a section of Deansgate – one of Manchester’s main streets for shopping, eating and drinking – since Friday. A petition has been launched to close the street permanently to motorised traffic, arguing that it would be good for health and business. Research from the Walk Ride Greater Manchester campaign group said […]
Carlton Reid 2,073 viewsAug 30, 2019, 01:21pm A university study has found that cargobikes complete urban delivery jobs up to 50% faster than small vans. Meanwhile, the U.K. Department for Transport has announced it is to spend £125 million on, among other things, “flying urban taxis.” This pump-priming of not-yet-existing technologies is part of a
Submitted by Hannah Figg on 27 Aug 2019 In order to address the increasing threat from climate change, the Dutch government has presented its Climate Agreement, which includes cycling as an integral element. Temperatures in the Netherlands reached record highs this June (40.7°C – two degrees higher than the past record from 1944). Climate scientists
Many of the businesses on Deansgate affected by the closure seemed cheerful about the occupation. Chris Seville, of Forsyth’s music shop, said they would just get their deliveries round the back – “and maybe we will sell a few more drums this week”. Like Lee Scholes, the manager of the Sofa Workshop next door, he
David FarrellWed 28 Aug 2019 14.56 BST The climate crisis demands an urgent, realistic and sustained response from governments around the world: such a response will inevitably require sacrifices from all of us. And there lies the rub for our systems of representative democracy. How can politicians facing short-term constraints (particularly the need to be
People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government’s chief environment scientist has warned. Prof Sir Ian Boyd said the public had little idea of the scale of the challenge from the so-called Net Zero emissions target.
Enrique Dans 11,903 viewsJul 6, 2019, 02:12pm Disruption is a very interesting phenomenon, among other things because virtually no established industry is ever prepared for it. By definition, disruption is rarely invited: it is almost always forced on us, particularly in a mature industry, when some external circumstance, a radical innovation, an evolution or a
Transport for London’s (TfL) procurement process for the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel contract has been slammed as being “flawed, in breach of the principals of equal treatment […] and manifestly erroneous”. TfL has also been accused of flouting its principals of “transparency” and “non-discrimination”, in a damning legal document submitted to the High Court by losing
BY BRYAN WALSH AUGUST 14, 2019 IDEAS Bryan Walsh is a contributor to TIME. Previously, he was TIME’s International Editor, its energy and environmental correspondent and was the Tokyo bureau chief in 2006 and 2007. He lives in New York. IDEAS Bryan Walsh is a contributor to TIME. Previously, he was TIME’s International Editor, its
“But as she was finally approaches the harbor in New York, the crowds were swelling. Walser, wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Ride bikes, do good”, said he hoped to get on board a boat as part of a welcoming flotilla for the Malizia II. “I’m a seasoned sailor and she seemed to have done
