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- novenator, on 07/03/2009, -4/+12do you just search Digg for climate change articles to troll in? Seriously dude, get a life
- Barackalypse, on 07/03/2009, -2/+9I don't really understand why they have these massive communal green spaces but decide to pack the residences all together. Wouldn't it be nice to look out and see the green space instead of glorified two story apartment blocks all crammed together? They have these enormous green spaces and most of the windows don't have any view of them. Maybe its an American thing, but I don't like sharing walls with my neighbors, who undoubtedly would be nymphomaniac musicians ensuring I hear noise at all hours.
- illied, on 07/03/2009, -0/+7Interesting idea, but I don't see much attention to transportation or employment issues. Will it be connected to Bristol by rail? Will there be infrastructure or planned spaces for jobs in the community (beyond manning the till at the local Starbucks)? If not, it becomes just another satellite suburb, with residents still having to hop into their cars to get to work from their ecofriendly homes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3304596/Hanham-Ha ... - squareears, on 07/03/2009, -0/+6it's called urban living
- lee1060, on 07/03/2009, -0/+6Maybe when I've won the lottery.
- theodenking, on 07/03/2009, -1/+6This is good but I wonder how much the finished product will cost. Ever since Thatcher forced the Housing Associations to take up all the slack we've had a massive shortage in both social housing and low-cost private rentals. Building expensive high-tech houses like these is a good PR exercise but it does not help the sectors of the population that actually need more homes. What the government needs to be focusing on is "retrofitting" existing building to make them energy efficient and building low-cost housing.
- hiPpymIck, on 07/03/2009, -0/+4FTA - the last bit
"I find this eco-town claim utterly amazing," says Maurice Spurway, a spokesperson for Friends of the Earth.
"Cranbrook will create a paved area close to a flood plain and its waste will probably be burned in an incinerator in Exeter, so carbon emissions would be maximised. The town is following all the wrong rules of development. This eco-town name is a marketing ploy without substance and I'm shocked the Government has fallen for it."
As far as Derek Wall, a Green Party principal speaker, is concerned, the whole eco-town idea is wrong-footed.
so - the environmentalists obviously havent been consulted - turbog20, on 07/03/2009, -0/+3I love green tech and the promise of low-e housing. But It still makes FAR too liberal use of land. The most "green" technology that man has ever invented has been the city. When people live in dense areas they use less land and less energy is required per person to function day to day. And this concept extends to everything from simply commuting to work all the way to shopping, entertainment, trash pickup, mail, power transmission, material usage (less roads, water pipes, power lines, sewer, etc)... Dense cities will always be the most green from of design.
But, i guess on the other hand, technology has to start on a scale that is small before it can be applied to large structures. Sort of like how we had to learn to build the hut before we could build the sky scraper.
I guess I just don't like the idea of, in America at least, people continuing the trend of abandoning our beautiful cities in hopes that someone else will clean up the mess so they may return later. - Royish, on 07/03/2009, -0/+3Too much of anything is bad.
- glaz, on 07/03/2009, -0/+2Our robot offspring will be digging this in the future on Robo-Cracked.com's "Top 10 Weirdest Abandoned Places".
- boldfire, on 07/03/2009, -0/+2'An additional £1.5 billion will be invested over the next 2 years to deliver 20,000 new affordable homes, creating 45,000 jobs in the construction and related sectors.'
http://www.labour.org.uk/building_britains_future - GarethEdwards, on 07/03/2009, -1/+3Welcome to the UK
- kimbja98, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1If you live outside the cities (even not very far in cases), you can still find detached or link-detached houses. Of course, then you'd be in a large housing estate or living too far away to make cycling/public transport a viable option. It's a shame, since the housing industry buys up old houses, demolishes them and builds flats instead or terrace houses as they get more $. Luckily, America still has land so they can build houses with some distance between them.
- Taiyoryu, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1It's hard to tell but I believe where there's shaded panels, it incorporates a living wall.
- Frostek, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1The UK is physically smaller than the US - we don't have enough space to do what you suggest.
- glaz, on 07/03/2009, -1/+1Environmentalists are impossible to consult because they demand standards be met which are impossibly impractical in their execution. They're never happy, ever.
- inactive, on 07/03/2009, -3/+2money
- artwhite, on 07/05/2009, -2/+1***** You
- Kythas, on 07/03/2009, -4/+2A hundred years from now, our descendants will be laughing at people's stupidity for believing in this global warming *****.
- immatellyouwhat, on 07/03/2009, -11/+9You fart, you lose.
- catmar, on 07/03/2009, -7/+3I don't believe climate change is due to man's puny efforts. This is the usual problem, reaction, solution scenario, they want our money and they will get it by hook or by crook, unless we all as one say NO we wont take it anymore!
- jf5qy, on 07/03/2009, -5/+1This is definitely a positive gesture, but misguided in some respects. While yes, it's apparent to anyone who endorses the "climate change" theory that humans are responsible for drastic increases in carbon dioxide output since the industrial revolution, it is also apparent that the Earth has adjusted to some extent the amount of CO2 we've put out.
While it's great that they have eliminated carbon emissions, if everyone stopped emitting CO2, the consequences could be equally as catastrophic as if we had done nothing at all about climate change. (I'm not talking about refusing to exhale, smart-*sses).
tl;dr - doing nothing is not an option but zero emissions is also not the way to go. - 3The3Dude3, on 07/03/2009, -7/+2And it's all ruined when some selfish ***** decides to exhale. Then there is the neighborhood dickbag who is too cheap to buy a Mr. Fusion model Flux Capacitor for his Prius and thus, emits a "*****" of carbon into the dome-less bio-dome.
- Rudegar, on 07/03/2009, -8/+3no carbonated beverage ?
- TheMachine1, on 07/03/2009, -12/+7Zero carbon but infinite smug emissions.
- Pirate45, on 07/03/2009, -9/+3whoopdee doo!!!!!!!!
- artwhite, on 07/03/2009, -21/+7Buried - CO2 is life
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