one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
January 06 2008
Bicycle messengers in Cambridge, UK are carrying mobile phones that transmit air pollution levels measured on their routes to a University research lab.
January 02 2008
Good move: Berlin, Cologne and Hannover have banned heavily polluting cars from their city centers.
December 24 2007
China, smokestack of the world.
December 19 2007
Air quality is downright horrible today so moderate your cycling speed and don’t get into that car if you’re a driver.
November 11 2007
The health effects of shipping fuel fumes have been under the radar for a long time but statistics are starting to show up. No mention of the port of Antwerp in there, but considering its size, I imagine there must be consequences to the local population.
June 25 2007
Wise words“Companies that are polluting in China are owned by American, European, Japanese and others. They are benefiting from the cheap labour, from the resources and at the same time accusing China of pollution.”
May 01 2007
Small UK town gives up plastic bags“Mankind's appetite for the plastic bag is deeply daunting. It is estimated that one million are used every minute - their average working life just 12 minutes before they are discarded”
April 22 2007
Scraping the vehicle pollution off tunnel walls creates the art of Alexandre Orion.
April 03 2007
city life worse than radiation“Air pollution in major cities may be more damaging to health than the radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster”
March 14 2007
Don’t overdo it today, we’re in the middle of a pollution peak. Coincidentally, coach drivers will be protesting a new European law by driving en masse through Brussels. Great timing…
March 11 2007
Dear Mr Winterkorn, you could actually choose not to give customers what they want, or rather what your advertising makes them want.
January 31 2007
Inside your car you inhale 5 times more smog than outside.
December 31 2006
Pollution from industrial pig farms“They walk out of the house to get something in the yard and become so nauseous they collapse. When they retain consciousness, they crawl back into the house.”
November 15 2006
Hollywood is the second largest polluter in the Los Angeles area. The full report is online. (thanks Dimitri)
Fighting excess packaging at the shops“If I didn't hail from the countryside, I might think fruit 'n' veg grew in foam trays”
October 24 2006
John Thackara reads Monbiot's Heat“I am still in Beijing as I write this. It is going to be a long walk home.”
August 20 2006
Milan is to start charging vehicles entering the city based on their emissions.
August 08 2006
Our shit kills halfway around the world“Klavitter has calculated that albatross feed their chicks about 5 tons of plastic a year at Midway”
August 04 2006
We can’t keep our destructive hands off anything. The seas are dying and turning into a toxic soup thanks to our industrial use of fertilisers and other ugly byproducts bacteria thrive on.
July 19 2006
Yes, it’s unbelievably hot and we’re in the middle of a big ass ozone peak which can do permanent damage to your lungs. And what do the authorities do? They ask you to stay inside and avoid exercise because attacking the root causes requires courage (on our part too).
June 22 2006
Caroline Lucas on our love of flying“we face a clear choice: reduce aviation's expansion, or give up on tackling climate change altogether”
May 30 2006
Pollution has gone global, we’re contaminating each other via high-altitude winds.