The Glasgow Effect - A Tale of Class, Capitalism and Carbon Footprint - The Second Edition

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