This week:

• Green Life correspondent Peter Stock delivers a tour of the book, “Drive: our complicated affair with the automobile”. The author, Tim Falconer, joins Peter to recount a 2-month road trip across the United States and examines the past, present and future of what he considers our collective automobile obsessed society.
• We present a recent lecture by Jack Santa-Barbara, director of the Sustainable Scale Project, an NGO dedicated to promoting a scale of human economic activity that is ecologically realistic in the long term (originally aired January 12, 2007).
• Correspondent Simon Watson fills in as host for Jordan Poppenk.
  

The headlines in brief:

• Honda is releasing the first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell car, but only in California;
• Beijing is importing water from across China for the upcoming Olympics;
• British and US conservation groups are working with Iranian groups to protect the rare Asiatic Cheetah.

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