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Feature-length episode of the BBC rural affairs programme presented
by Helen Skelton, Ellie Harrison, Adam Henson, Matt Baker and John
Craven. The presenters travel throughout the United Kingdom taking
in various locations including the Lake District and the Cotswolds.
I will not travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles
except my bike, for a whole calendar year. - Ellie Harrison,
January 2016 This simple proposition - to attempt to live a
'low-carbon lifestyle of the future' - put forward by an English
artist living in post-industrial Glasgow cut to the heart of the
unequal world we have created. A world in which some live transient
and disconnected existences within a global 'knowledge economy'
racking up huge carbon footprints as they chase work around the
world, whilst others, trapped in a cycle of poverty caused by
deindustrialisation and the lack of local opportunities, cannot
even afford the bus fare into town. We're all equally miserable.
Isn't it time we rethought the way we live our lives? In this, her
first book, Ellie Harrison traces her own life's trajectory to
examine the relationship between literal and social mobility;
between class and carbon footprint. From the personal to the
political, she uses experiences and knowledge gained in Glasgow in
2016 and beyond, together with the ideas of Patrick Geddes - who
coined the phrase 'Think Global, Act Local' in 1915, economist EF
Schumacher who made the case for localism in Small is Beautiful in
1973, and the Fearless Cities movement of today, to put forward her
own vision for 'the sustainable city of the future', in which we
can all live happy, healthy and creative lives.
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