It’s a simple but powerful fact that the faster the rate of sprawl, the faster the rate of disinvestment in the inner city.

— Zack Semke of the Coalition for a Liveable Future, Portland.

If we continue to allow our cities to spread into the surrounding farmland and green space, we will never stop the flow of greenhouse gases from the increased number of vehicle trips and the loss of carbon-storing soil and forests.

In the U.S., green space is being lost to low-density sprawl at 365 acres an hour.

This is the first instalment for rabbles three-part series based on the book Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change, published by New Society Publishers. This first section details how someone can live more sustainably.

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.