With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable.
… Greening Cities Dan Box | 1st April 2003 News Sustainable Cities Urbanization China Copenhagen Brazil … urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable. We are fast …
The Car Free Megacities campaign sets out to transform London, Paris and New York.
… Driving cars out of our cities Andrew Simms | 11th May 2021 | Comment … Picks air_pollution_0.jpg The Car Free Megacities campaign sets out to transform London, Paris and New York. Great cities set the tone for modern living and a …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… and less than half of PetroChina. Even in the cities, Han Chinese and Uyghur live in virtual …
Officials can sternly lecture the City on its excesses as much as they like: when it comes to actually regulating it, politicians just don't care. And don't want us to know...
We should all know how RBS spends our money Dan Box | 26th October 2009 Comment Politics And Economics RBS Oil Gas Finance Money danboxcomment.jpg Officials can sternly lecture the City on its …
The COP26 conference came to Glasgow and went again - and there is already evidence from the Scottish city that it will have little or no legacy.
… officers. Polluting A recent report by Adfree Cities found that only 22 percent of adverts … use.’ Robbie Gillett of the Adfree Cities campaign described the regulatory set …
Smog Day was launched in 2017 as a moment to remember all those dying unnecessarily due to air pollution.
… outcome. For a time people living in major cities experienced what they were like with … their privileged use of road space. But many cities worldwide are showing that it is … levels and designing virtually car free cities. From Oslo to Madrid, Milan and Paris, …
New study shows three quarters of ‘off road’ SUVs sold in the UK are to people living in our towns and cities.
… the UK are to people living in our towns and cities. We are far less in control of the … are, regardless, sold to people in towns and cities, even when these vehicles are being … there at almost every turn in the towns and cities where we live. And the …
Controls on adverts for oil companies, SUV makers and airlines are already starting to happen - but what else should we stop advertising to raise our survival chances?
… are ‘consumed’. From small towns to big cities, more and more tobacco-style bans on … is published by Badvertising and Adfree Cities. Now that the impacts of climate …
Big polluters have no place using sport as a billboard - let’s kick them out.
… behind, it's one of the major aspects when cities and countries bid to host such mega … after powerful grassroots campaigns. Towns, cities, and even whole countries are getting …
Advertising is a type of ‘brain pollution’ says new ‘ministry’ campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency.
… physical billboards looming in our towns and cities’ infrastructure, inside cinemas and not … of fossil fuels which chokes our towns and cities and whose air pollution in total was … the climate emergency and several other cities around the world such as Grenoble, São …
In 1996 there were no farmers’ markets anywhere in the UK. Today they outnumber Asda stores. Dan Box celebrates their comeback and why we should all be using them.
… markets have been successful in poor inner-cities that have no supermarket. According to …
Dan Box makes a detour to the G20 climate protests in London, but leaves disappointed. Later, a lecture by Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review, lifts his spirits.
Dan Box blog: listening to the radicals Dan Box | 2nd April 2009 Comment Dan Box G20 Protests Blueprint For A Safer Planet Nicholas Stern Blog Climate Change Blog Politics And Economics Society Dan …
They emptied the public purse to fund their continuing largesse. Now it's time for the banks to pay us back. At phenomenally good rates...
Bailed-out banks should fund the Green New Deal Dan Box | 17th August 2009 Comment Banks Bonuses Green New Deal Finance Politics And Economics danboxcomment.jpg They emptied the public purse to fund …
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… fields on which to grow or graze, these giant cities need to buy in food and other goods, … food into the city. It seems inevitable that cities like London will shrink rapidly as the …
In the cut-throat world of clean energy investment, is it more important that things are done for the right reason, or that the right thing gets done? We may not like the answer...
Oi! You nicked my reef! Dan Box | 3rd August 2009 Comment Science And Technology Politics And Economics Tidal Reef Severn Renewable Energy Energy danboxcomment.jpg In the cut-throat world of clean …
The end of the oil age won't be a pretty thing, but a new report by Deutsche Bank suggests it could be even uglier than we feared...
Food riots will mark the end of oil Dan Box | 23rd November 2009 Comment Energy Peak Oil Oil Money Food And Farming danboxcomment.jpg The end of the oil age won't be a pretty thing, but a new report …
Oil company BP disappears from Channel 4 coverage despite being originally announced as Paralympic Games sponsor.
BP 'dropped' as C4 paralympics sponsor Jess Worth Andrew Simms | 24th August 2021 | News Activism Climate Breakdown Bp Paralympic Games Editor’s Picks 7c4698bce7023cff6a688c0c_rw_3840.jpg Oil company …
The new feed-in tariffs are nothing if not controversial, but they also run the risk of conflicting with other, international, climate change policies
Having both emissions trading and feed-in tariffs is a waste of time Dan Box | 12th March 2010 Comment Energy Politicsandeconomics Feed-in Tariffs EU ETS Emissions Trading Carbon Trading …
As the worst drought in 100 years makes its effects felt in the southern hemisphere, Dan Box asks whether the Australian interior is becoming a terra nullius – a genuine no-man’s-land
… the bright lights to bigger towns and cities. While they have not directly been … country, pulled back only from the line of cities at its edge – has lost one in five of …