It would take the French. A tethered gas balloon in Paris’s 15th arrondissement has been taking tourists up for aerial views of the city since 1999. Now, it has been coupled to an air quality monitoring and display system, to give real time information on air quality in the city and at major traffic junctions. [...]
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The latest in environmental tourism?
Posted in Tourism on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How many people are there in the world?
Posted in Sustainable living on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
6,681,394,380 . . . and counting . . . rather fast. Today, July 11, is World Population Day, inaugurated in 1988 by the United Nations to mark the day when the world’s population hit five billion, July 11, 1987. The counter is at www.worldometers.info, where we learn that the absolute growth in population today (at [...]
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