The Glasgow Effect

I will not travel beyond Glasgow¿s city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike, for a whole calendar year.¿ Ellie Harrison, January 2016

This simple proposition ¿ to attempt to live a ¿low-carbon lifestyle of the future¿ ¿ put forward by an English artist living in post-industrial Glasgow cut to the heart of the unequal world we have created. A world in which some live transient and disconnected existences within a global ¿knowledge economy¿ racking up huge carbon footprints as they chase work around the world, whilst others, trapped in a cycle of p