Race for Sustainability?

This month is special for Singapore. It presents its National Energy Efficiency Conference with overseas & local experts & delegates, hosts an international CSR summit, launches a five month long climate change awareness campaign called “Our Green Home” at a Singapore Environment Council “G1″ event. But to top all that Singapore hosts arguably the biggest polluting event on the planet – a night time Formula 1 motor race. Besides being energy inefficient – all those lights as well as powerful fuel guzzling cars – it would be the most unsustainable event ever. In the same month Singapore Zoo welcome two panda from China to an appropriately air conditioned cool cage. We know that air conditioning uses about 70% of Singapore’s stationary energy. All too much to take in? Enough to make your editor take to riding a Singapore built bamboo framed bike. Definitely the most sustainable and energy efficient form of transport in the world. Plenty to read in this issue but readers will have to wait a fortnight for the 2012 Global Sustainability Leaders list. Some late submissions & time needed to compile it put it back. But look out for the next issue due out 18th. – Ken Hickson

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