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- Title
- Obsession with car sending us way of the DODO
- Author(s)
- Fisher, Frank
- Abstract
- The many recent environmental supplements in 'The Age' and its broad range of articles on the sustainability crisis are heartening. Efficiency and technical change, however, are the 'low-hanging fruit' of sustainability. Above looms the tree of social understanding that gives rise to the activities we're trying to make more efficient. Reconstructing it with an eye to sustainability will transform its fruits so that they are no longer unsustainable. This means exposing contradictions and misrepresentations that become apparent once we begin looking at the world through sustainability-sensitive lenses. Once identified, these contradictions can be changed. Here are a few examples from urban life. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Newspaper article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Design. National Centre for Sustainability
- Source
- The Age, 08 May 2008
- Publication year
- 2008
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Cars; DODO; Driver Only Driver Owned car; Environment; Greenhouse gas emissions; Melbourne; Public transport; Sustainability
- Publisher
- Fairfax
- Publisher URL
- http://business.theage.com.au/obsession-with-car-sending-us-way-of-the-dodo-20080507-2c1f.html
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 Frank Fisher.
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