Society – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com Inspiration for a Sustainable World Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/sublimemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sublime_Logo.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Society – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com 32 32 243252845 Making Lemonade https://sublimemagazine.com/making-lemonade/ https://sublimemagazine.com/making-lemonade/#respond Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:32:05 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/?p=12103 It is starting to sink in. The housing market, or retail spending, or affordable commodities … these may never return. A cushy retirement may never come. The Western economies may never recover.

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/making-lemonade/feed/ 0 12103 Through Pride of Work https://sublimemagazine.com/through-pride-of-work/ https://sublimemagazine.com/through-pride-of-work/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/through-pride-of-work/ Watching Shionla’s videos introducing and documenting the production processes of their carefully manufactured watches, bicycles and leather goods – all made in the USA – one wants to instantly own each of their pieces. One wants to touch the soft leather cover of their notebooks, smell that hot-off-the-press-scent. Hear the clock hands of the watches...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/through-pride-of-work/feed/ 1 13095 Who’s Next? https://sublimemagazine.com/who-s-next/ https://sublimemagazine.com/who-s-next/#respond Mon, 02 May 2016 12:00:51 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/who-s-next/ As I look out on the world scene, I marvel that anyone has any hope at all of a happy and secure future! Humanity is in a bad way – global terrorism, petty crime and violence, poverty and exploitation, global recession, drugs and alcohol addiction, AIDS epidemics and Zika virus outbreak, the proliferation of armaments...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/who-s-next/feed/ 0 13413 What’s Good for the Bee is Good for the Hive https://sublimemagazine.com/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/ https://sublimemagazine.com/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:24:17 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/ Good for the Bee and the Beehive Over ten years ago, shortly after leaving a fashion and textiles course, I took a weekend job in a holistic remedy shop to help support myself while studying at university. What started as an essentially superficial process of clearing my post-pubescent complexion soon transformed into a fascination for...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/feed/ 0 13105 I Spend, Therefore I Am https://sublimemagazine.com/i-spend-therefore-i-am/ https://sublimemagazine.com/i-spend-therefore-i-am/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:58:08 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/i-spend-therefore-i-am/ I Spend Therefore I Am is a truly revelatory analysis of the way that a certain kind of economic thinking – that which puts self-interest at its centre – has invaded most aspects of our daily lives, from the way we make personal decisions to how we view reality and what we consider of value...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/i-spend-therefore-i-am/feed/ 0 13078 Cancel The Apocalypse https://sublimemagazine.com/cancel-the-apocalypse/ https://sublimemagazine.com/cancel-the-apocalypse/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:33:42 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/cancel-the-apocalypse/ Anxiety of an impending apocalypse has gripped humanity through the ages with curious consistency. Whether spiritual or religious, the musings of a madman or the tendency for humans to overestimate risk of unlikely but potentially catastrophic events; history is beset with apocalyptic prophecies and expectations. Cancel the Apocalypse, the latest book by author and campaigner...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/cancel-the-apocalypse/feed/ 0 12729 Revolution 2.0 https://sublimemagazine.com/revolution-20/ https://sublimemagazine.com/revolution-20/#respond Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:34:32 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/revolution-20/ Remember the North African revolutions? Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, all within the space of a few months, threw off decades of dictatorship. Every one of the protest movements would, in a normal year, have warranted intense analysis, documentaries and books. So widespread and momentous were the events in North Africa that the minor details are...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/revolution-20/feed/ 0 12707 Just Design https://sublimemagazine.com/just-design/ https://sublimemagazine.com/just-design/#respond Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:14:38 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/just-design/ Just Design presents the reader with three options on how to view the state of the world: Pessimism (‘We’re screwed’), Delusion (‘Whatever’) or Optimism (‘It’s possible to figure this out’). Bridging the gap between the two most common types of design books, the lavish visual catalogue and the academic tome of a text, this book...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/just-design/feed/ 0 12704 Ground Control https://sublimemagazine.com/ground-control/ https://sublimemagazine.com/ground-control/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:11:40 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/ground-control/ This welcome reissue of Ground Control includes a new chapter on the imminent London Olympics. It is the perfect addition to a book that seeks to raise the profile of the often tedious planning and building decisions that are changing the public spaces of Britain. Anne Minton is convinced that those changes are for the...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/ground-control/feed/ 0 12689 Surf’s Up https://sublimemagazine.com/surfs-up/ https://sublimemagazine.com/surfs-up/#respond Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:34:08 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/surfs-up/ As well as the book – co-authored by Frosty Hesson alongside Ian Spiegelman, Rick Hesson – a film titled Chasing Mavericks has just been released. It tells the life story of the surfing legend Frosty, played by Gerard Butler and his mentorship with Jay Moriarty, played by Johnny Weston, a then budding 12-year-old surfing novice...

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