Via the Arabist comes this really good video on urban planning and the city of Cairo. I believe it was produced by ABC Radio Australia. I’ve only spent about two and a half weeks in Cairo, but that was enough for me to tell that it is royally fucked from an ubran planning perspective. And it is so apparent that the government doesn’t care about the poor citizens of the city at all. Anyway, watch the video if you want to learn a bit about it:
Tag Archives: Environment
Secretary Hillary talks to the netizens
Via the State Department’s Twitter I came across this press release. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had an online interview with a Chinese professor named Qi Ye. The first question went like this:
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, first of all, let me thank you for having me be able to speak to the netizens – I like that phrase — and I am so pleased that you are focusing on such an important topic as energy efficiency and climate change.
PROFESSOR QI: Right.
SECRETARY CLINTON: In our own lives, we have tried to be much more conscious of what we should do. So, for example, we use compact fluorescent bulbs, which are less of a drain on the electricity grid. We have installed more high-energy resistant windows, more insulted windows. We have, obviously, insulated our utilities and our homes. We have also recycled, so that we are trying not to add to the landfill waste more than absolutely necessary.
And my husband, of course, with the Clinton Foundation, is running a climate change program with, I think, 40 cities around the world working on higher energy efficiency, and so much else. So, we have tried to do more, but we are constantly asking ourselves what more we can do.
Okay. Whatever. But couldn’t she have said, “We are trying to drive less”? Come on, Madame Secretary! That’s really what you should tell people. Next time I hope she says: “I ride my bike to Foggy Bottom.”
