We noted earlier that there was a glorious great leap forward in solar roadbuilding in China, with the opening of a 2 - kilometre (1.2 mile) stretch of photovoltaics covered in some form of transparent concrete. (treehugger.com)
«If we increase taxes on the highest incomes, scrap expensive and irrelevant projects like Trident, transfer money from roadbuilding to public transport and get tough on tax avoidance and evasion, we could afford a major public investment programme that would create hundreds of thousands of jobs while transforming the economy to help tackle climate change. (politics.co.uk)
These include roadbuilding and maintenance, the heat island effect of all those parking lots, the water and ecosystem effects and more. (treehugger.com)