Travel by train produces much less pollution than by plane - because there are more passengers each ride, no need to use energy to lift the plane on the sky and less CO2 emission, significantly shorter connection transfer from your home to city train statoin than from city centre to airport in suburban areas etc...
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(con't. from part 1)
Q: Did you uncover an underground slow culture?
A: The slow food movement had already got the ball rolling by altering cultural perceptions of slow as a dirty word. It had been a byword for "lazy", "boring" and "unproductive". Bu what slow food did was say: "Slow has a role to play in the 21st century. We're proud to be slow." It was kind of like the gay community taking back the word "queer".
Q: Apart from slow food, where else is the slow ethos thriving?
A: There are now about 70 slow cities in Europe and 4 official slow cities in England. There are slow festivals all over the globe and there is an International Day of Slowness each February. There's even a slow sex movement - it's the idea that you get more bang for your back.
Q: What do the politicians make of it?
A: The Conservative Party (UK) are very interested in the slow ethos and they're wondering if the idea can be used to push forward their quality of life agenda.
Q: How damaging is information overload?
A: The constant barrage of electonic interruptions causes our IQ to fall by 10 points in an average day. That's twice the effect of smoking marijuana. Being on call 24/7 is more likely to tuen you into Ozzy Osbourne than some über-master of the universe.
Q: What are your hopes for the future of the movement?
A: I thinkn we're on the brink of something very big here. The whole equation of quantity and quality has been completely skewed. It's become all about either having 639 friends on Facebook, push-button orgasms or drive-through funerals. Evertyig has becomme a box to tick on a to-do list. But people are starting to think that they want to live their life rather than just hurry through it. We won't reach a utopia of slow instantly. But maybe in 40 years, we will have reigned in this roadrunner reflex.
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today's fresh lime -
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start from today -
Check out fabulous 2nd hand stuff in auction web like eBay, there are plenty of good buys there which makes value of money as well as keeping useful products away from dumping sites.
