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Green living, Oct 21st, 2011,
The London 2012 Olympics is being touted as the “greenest games ever” – though I imagine a more accurate label would be the “greenest Olympics of the last few, relatively speaking”, which is just not as catchy. The London Olympic project is on the cutting edge of green innovation, however. Carbon emissions have been cut by 100,000 tons, wetlands restored and construction of largest urban park built in Europe for the last 150 years is underway. One green (or green-ish) project of London 2012 is an entire new neighborhood, called Strand East, being built by Swedish furniture empire IKEA. It…
Tags: 2012, consumerism, environmental, ethical, Green, IKEA, london, olympics
Green living, Politics, Aug 13th, 2009,
When London bid for the 2012 Olympics against other cities like New York, Paris, Madrid and Moscow, they touted that if the Summer Olympics were to be held in their city, it would be the first environmentally friendly games ever. Perhaps the Olympic Committee was quite convinced, as London won in the final round, beating Paris by 54 to 50 votes. Looking at the history of the Olympics, the games were really so much simpler when they first started (and it wasn’t just because of the naked, muscled men rolling around the dirt, either). Athletes from the various city-states of…
Tags: 2012, environment, london, olympics, sustainable development
