Urban World: Bridging the urban divide, Why cities must build equality

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Sustainability

How we must learn to live within our means Ecological footprinting allows us to compare the availability of naturally renewing resources with our rate of consumption of these resources – our ecological footprint. Here Pooran Desai, International Director of BioRegional One Planet Communities and Sustainability Director of BioRegional Quintain, warns that our level of consumption is becoming too much for our planet.

The Beddington Fossil Energy development in the UK is a pioneering attempt to create a sustainable community

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