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Reducing emissions with human laziness...

Written by Peter Edwards Editor, Global Cement Magazine
25 March 2021

The transition to net-zero CO2 living, apparently set to take place by 2050, will require a lot of changes to our way of life. We provide coverage to the many ingeneous technical solutions to CO2 in these pages, but researchers in Switzerland may have identified another useful method: Human laziness.1

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Money money money...

Written by Peter Edwards Editor, Global Cement Magazine
23 February 2021

In its report The Inequality Virus,1 the charity Oxfam highlighted one of the most startling figures of the Covid-19 pandemic so far: US$500bn. This is the amount by which the world’s 10 richest men added to their wealth from April to December 2020. Read that again: Added to their wealth! In an effort to put a scale against this figure for us non-billionaires, Oxfam says this amount would be enough to vaccinate everyone on the planet against Covid-19 and to ensure that nobody ended up worse off due to the outbreak.

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The weird and wonderful world of English...

Written by Peter Edwards Editor, Global Cement Magazine
28 January 2021

One of the many facets of the recently-imposed third UK lockdown has been a return to home-schooling for my eldest daughter. She is now approaching six, which means a longer attention span and greater comprehension than in previous lockdowns. The school subjects have increased in depth and breadth to fit, meaning she is now knee-deep in something approaching proper maths, while other tasks prompt the investigation of materials (science) and discussion of whether things around us are natural or made by people (geography).

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A return to normal?

Written by Peter Edwards Editor, Global Cement Magazine
21 December 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic upended most people’s normal routines around the world in 2020. Many column inches have been devoted to ‘the new normal.’ What will ‘normal’ look like in a week, a month, or a year? When government rules change every other week, the question is an ever-shifting goalpost. Comments can age rapidly and make the author look silly, even a few days later.

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The power of typefaces...

Written by Peter Edwards Editor, Global Cement Magazine
19 November 2020

I have recently finished reading Just my Type, a book about typefaces by Simon Garfield. Its striking cover uses no less than 10 typefaces in the title alone, one for each letter. There are 200 more inside, taking the reader from antiquity to the digital age.

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