Cafés Wastefully ‘Warm Sparrows in Winter’
Some 6000 Parisian café owners are on a heated collision course with Paris City Hall over plans to ban (butane-fired) patio gas heaters. The patio heaters are used outdoors by sidewalk cafés to warm their winter customers – many of whom are hardened nicotine addicts who also claim the right to coffee and a newspaper [...]
Outdoor Poster Boys or Visual Polluters?
Few who visit or live in France can ignore JCDecaux, the name that is synonymous with outdoors or, in the view of some, grossly polluting it. For from the moment one drives or flies into France – home-base of JCDecaux, these days a powerful multinational business — it becomes very evident who owns every bus [...]
