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Environmental news from around the world, gathered (mainly) for informing my students of ongoing developments. I am NOT the creator/copy-right owner of any of the photos appearing in the posts: they are used solely for informative/educative and non-commercial purposes -and i consider this "fair use". Nevertheless, if you own the copyright of any of those photos/graphs/etc and you wish them removed please contact me and I would gladly do so.







ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ, 04/02/2007



The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics want the games to be "the greenest in history", but critics say that their plans do not go far enough.
The organisers have set the following environmental targets:
The Olympic village will be 25% more energy-efficient and carbon emissions will be reduced by 50% for the whole development compared with current building regulations;
renewable energy wlll provide 20% of the energy for the Olympic Park and Village;
20% less water than average will be used by the Olympic village;
20% of the materials used to construct the venues and 90% of demolished buildings will be reused or recycled, and;
50 km of new cycling routes and 30km of new walking routes will be built. Read more...
BBC 31/1/2007