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A firefighting aircraft...
A firefighting aircraft drops water over a blaze that ravaged forestland near Lykostomo village in the northwestern prefecture of Ioannina yesterday. |
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Taxis should go green
The 30,000 taxis that circulate on the roads of Greece put a heavy burden on the country's environment, contributing to the greenhouse effect and spreading atmospheric pollution in the country's cities.
It is no small wonder that the state (which issues taxi licenses) has not worked out some kind of policy to gradually replace these diesel-fueled vehicles with eco-friendly hybrid cars.
Such a policy would achieve many goals - and not all of them environmental.
Let us not forget that Greece is one of the countries with the greatest dependency on petroleum. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Writing on the wall
Unsolicited graphic interventions on public and private property - graffiti - has a long and varied history in Greece, and it very much reflects on where society is. Visitors from more «orderly» countries, and those with a heightened need for aesthetic order, are often shocked by the barbarity of the writing and smudges on Greek walls, opening the eyes of the rest of us to a blight to which we have become desensitized. The vandalism may be a statement of an organized kind, such as when major political parties and football teams send their foot soldiers across cities, towns and the countryside with huge stocks of paint, disfiguring bridges, embankments and even country fountains with their primal message that they are everywhere and at the same time accountable to no one (this applies even to parties when they are in power and should be upholding the rule of law, which forbids such vandalism). |
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