Public space

mySociety.org have some cool maps showing travel times for central London. All maps show travel times to the the Department for Transport (DfT) office in central London.
This one shows areas where going by bike beats public transport if you need to get to the DfT office (note that all the areas that are not […]

The Economist of 6th December, 2007 (full story, requires login) writes about U.S. subsidies for ethanol:

In other words, the demands of America’s ethanol programme alone account for over half the world’s unmet need for cereals. Without that programme, food prices would not be rising anything like as quickly as they have been. According to the […]