Howard Visits Christie Walk

2006-08-30

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, visits Christie Walk

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, visited Christie Walk, eco-housing development in inner city Adelaide, today to announce the first Solar Cities trial. He was shown around the site by Paul Downton, Christie Walk architect.

Christie Walk is an obvious context for a solar cities announcement. Let's hope that renewed government leadership on sustainable cities results in more backdrops to choose from next time.

Refer: Urban Ecology News

Question: Did Howard learn anything from his visit?

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Howard on the environment......

2007-05-14

Posted by Richard Bergin

Howard thinks that humanity can consume 85,000,000 barrels of oil a day (about 31,025,000,000 barrels each year, that we can burn 5,300,000,000 Tonnes of coal each and that we can consume 400,000,000,000 cubic meters of wood each year – all with no environmental impact. This level of consumption goes on year, after year and is always increasing. In fact people like Howard want us to consume more and more, they believe that is how humanity is supposed to get ahead though we drown in the externalities of this kind of economics...........Clearly Howard is a flat earth kinda guy, there's plenty of em, they're called free market economic rationalists and they come from a time when the world was in black and white

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