David Green, the founder of EcoIsland, Sustainability Executive of the Year and "Team Green Britain Hero" has recently taken a video camera with him on a sneak preview of some of the new facilities being constructed for the 2012 London Olympics. Here's what he discovered:

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Here's the video I was endeavouring to bring to the attention of the Teignbridge District Council planning committee yesterday. As I pointed out to them:

In it an MIT professor spends 15 minutes going over many of the vitally important issues in a way I will be unable to do in 5 minutes at Forde House.

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The New Statesman has just published an article about the Isle of Wight entitled "A Paradise in the Making"!  They make this bold claim because David Green's EcoIsland Partnership has recently been launched with a fair amount of fanfare in a large marquee just outside the Houses of Parliament in London.

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In this weekend's Daily Telegraph Andrew English reviews three new variants of the Smart fortwo that are even more economical that the standard Smart car. The petrol version of the Smart fortwo, the 2 seater car produced by the Mercedes Benz subsidiary, has long been one of the World's most frugal. It managed 60.1 mpg whilst emitting just 112 grammes of carbon dioxide on the EU combined cycle. The figures for the same model from the United States Environmental Protection Agency are 33 mpg in the city and 41 mpg on the highway.

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