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Kieran
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 070817.ece
Kyoto? Bali? They're miles from here | Carol Sarler - Times Online
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RenewableCandy
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Yeah it's tough trying to save energy when you live in a cardboard house on a road with no 'sidewalk' miles from anywhere and you don't realise there's anything odd about that. But realisation is dawning in the USA that everyone does better if you can walk around...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/o ... ce171.html
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Kieran wrote:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 070817.ece
Kyoto? Bali? They're miles from here | Carol Sarler - Times Online
Americans are simply in for a big shock. I read an article recently about how Russians were ready for their 'recent' fall, and how the US was most definately not - the lack of public transport and widespread knowledge of the land (rather than the mall) featured....
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RenewableCandy wrote:Yeah it's tough trying to save energy when you live in a cardboard house on a road with no 'sidewalk' miles from anywhere and you don't realise there's anything odd about that. But realisation is dawning in the USA that everyone does better if you can walk around...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/o ... ce171.html
Ah, bless 'em. Reinventing the wheel like that, I sure they're very proud of themselves :roll:
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower
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Smithy wrote:
Kieran wrote:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 070817.ece
Kyoto? Bali? They're miles from here | Carol Sarler - Times Online
Americans are simply in for a big shock. I read an article recently about how Russians were ready for their 'recent' fall, and how the US was most definately not - the lack of public transport and widespread knowledge of the land (rather than the mall) featured....
Sounds like Dimitry Orlov. Cracking read.
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