Eco Towns

You might well have heard in the news that the go-ahead has been given for four new "eco-towns" in England. The idea is that the four new towns will provide an extra 10,000 homes by 2016, and will "showcase environmentally-friendly living" - with charging points for electric cars, zero-carbon buildings, new public transport links, and solar and wind energy.

Full story from the Guardian here, with a nice interactive to show the locations of the four new eco-towns (and the other proposed sites that were rejected).

Yr11 - Get reading!

I've just come across this page from the Guardian website which has loads of articles on travel, transport and the environment - lots here that will be useful preparation for the DME.

Chris Prettejohn has an excellent list of links on his website, including the websites of the Thames Gateway and BedZED. The Global Eye article is where Resources 1 and 2 came from, and is well worth a look. My group will be seeing some of these links in lessons in the next couple of weeks...

Also, don't forget about Unlimited Spurt!

Or, if you don't fancy reading, go here to listen to Pauline telling you about NET - Nottingham Express Transit System...

Year 11 - Sustainable Transport...

...is the very exciting topic for January's DME exam!

Although you are not allowed to see the Resource Booklet until January, you can start to do some background reading/research.

Don't forget, the DME is all about sustainability - if you are not sure what this means you had better get looking it up!!

A good place to start your reading would be the Sustrans website (click on the logo on the right)... A Google Search for "sustainable transport" will keep you going with reading all through the holidays!

If you find any sites that would be useful for all of us to have a look at, let me know!