{"id":6993,"date":"2005-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/on-yer-bike\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T03:43:42","slug":"on-yer-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/on-yer-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"On yer bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a little inspiration, I managed to get out of bed that little bit earlier this morning – such that I could oil my chain before riding to work.<\/p>\n

Boy does it make a difference. At least I think it does. I imagine part of the effect is purely mental, ie. I can’t hear my chain squeaking like a Galah – so it seems like the bike is moving with less effort. Still placebo or otherwise it made the ride that tad easier.<\/p>\n

I rode over the the ANU for some climbing this evening, and then popped over to Llewellyn Hall for a Science Festival Forum.<\/p>\n

The topic was “Cats, Cars & Catchments” or thereabouts, basically a discussion about Canberra and it’s environmental future(s).<\/p>\n

It was a pretty interesting hour or so, although it wasn’t a debate, rather just a series of observations from the assembled five experts.<\/p>\n

There was lots of talk about water, Paul Perkins<\/a> being one of the panel members (formerly CEO of ACTEW). He stated that with a 25% reduction in water usage, which they feel is feasible, Canberra could be home to 500,000 people – from the perspective of water supply at least.<\/p>\n

One of the issues that concerns me, as someone who might live in Canberra for a long time, is the physical structure of the city. I think Canberran’s preference for cars as a mode of transport is to a large degree explained by the phyiscally dispersed nature of the city. It’s going to be very hard to address, but we may have to when petrol hits $10\/litre.<\/p>\n

No one really addressed the topic to any great degree, there was just one passing comment that if we over urbanise the inner city it won’t be a very nice place to live. Possibly true. Although if we keep burning petrol like we are there might be a whole lot<\/em> of places that aren’t nice to live.<\/p>\n

Food for thought anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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