Not happy with being the world’s most honest country, Sweden has plans to be the world’s first oil-free country, by 2015. And without even resorting to nuclear power.
Despite our obsession with property programmes, the UK has fewer self-built homes than anywhere else in Europe. Fewer than 10% of us build our own homes, with the rest of the EU managing around 40%.
A third of the world’s poor live in India.
Quote of the week: ‘If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down.’
George W Bush
The Earthbound Report 