Les Firbank
  • Home
  • Presentations, papers and links
  • Blog

A greener lifestyle?

3/26/2020

0 Comments

 
Last week I discussed how things were changing locally. Now, the sun is shining and the lockdown is pretty much total. It's like we are in a post-apocalyptic movie; there's hardly any traffic, the buses are still passing our house every ten minutes or so, but this time they are almost always empty. On the other hand, I have never seen so many walkers. Carefully spaced out into family groups, dodging into the road rather than risking getting too close, they have occupied the peri-urban lanes and paths like nothing we've seen before. 

It makes sense. Why not explore your locality in the 1 hour of exercise outside the house you are allowed. You can't go the gym, can't go shopping, the tourist attractions have all closed - even the RSPB nature reserves. I wonder, will people get to like this, will there be more support for traffic controls, and more desire to open up the peri-urban areas with more paths and green spaces? And will these ideas start to feed into regional planning?
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Les Firbank is an agro-ecologist based at the University of Leeds

    Archives

    March 2020
    April 2019
    September 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    March 2018
    October 2017
    June 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.