Issue 20 Get Real – Sublime

The Spirit Level

laurasan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:24:05 +0000

However, The Spirit Level, the collaborative result of over fifty years of research by Professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, emphatically does not fall into that trap. The authors’ extensive enquiries into the social and economic determinants behind issues such as life expectancy, illness, mental health, drug use, obesity, education, teenage pregnancy and prison show...

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Co-opportunity

Laura Santamaria — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Tucked away somewhere towards the middle of Co-opportunity is a consummate quote by Vaclav Havel, playwright and former leader of the Czech Republic: ‘Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as...

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Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010

laurasan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:26:42 +0000

There was a serendipitous turn of events here in London early this March. The team at London’s Birds Eye View Film Festival were only days into their annual celebration of women film-makers when the news from Hollywood was announced: Kathryn Bigelow had become the first woman in history to receive an Academy Award for Best...

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Just for the Record

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:47:41 +0000

Just as the likes of The Klaxons and Simian Mobile Disco followed their pointers to start a ‘movement’ that flickered briefly but brightly and led to a Mercury Prize Award for the band, Hynes and co. declared they didn’t like their own music after all and split. The first Lightspeed album Falling Off the Lavender...

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Making The Earth Go Round

laurasan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Achim Steiner is the man who coined the phrase ‘peak everything’ in a speech to World Challenge – a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses that are making a difference at grassroots level. As the man charged with overseeing the UN’s response to six key priorities: climate change, disasters and conflicts, ecosystem...

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Modern Master

laurasan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

When the great utilitarian architect Le Corbusier visited Brazil in the 1930s, he was to have a profound effect on Brazilian design. Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer are perhaps the two greatest Brazilian modernist architects most famously responsible for the planning and building of Brasilia in the 1950s. It comes as no surprise, then, that architect Marcio Kogan, one of the leading lights in Brazil today, hails these two along with the likes of Affonso Reidy and Lina Bo Bardi in his pantheon of great national architects.

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Coming Home

laurasan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

‘Get real’ is an idiom I have never had positive associations with. Its expression passes judgement, conjuring as it does images of one finger-pointing, eyebrow-raising human shadow on a pedestal towering over another. It was a phrase uttered with disapproval by my dad when I told him that I wanted to ‘go grassroots’ and –...

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A Tale Of Six Cities

David Buckland — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Take six cities from across the world, each addressing climate change with energy and commitment, each motivated and led by their mayor towards a sustainable shift. The Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayors, hosted by the then Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Ritt Bjerregaard, was as near to thrilling business as the Copenhagen UN Climate Summit (UNFCCC...

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Take It From The Top

laurasan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

One of the most important traits of a good leader is their ability to make the right decisions. Wise decision-making, inevitably, involves moral, or ethical choices, and this occurs every time we take a decision. Hence it is not surprising that we find the comments we might define as wisdom to be essentially comments about...

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The Commons People

John Grant — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Like many people, I started the year not exactly looking forward to the UK elections. The mess that was Copenhagen paid testament to the lack of any real leadership in modern politics – a professionalised generation of technocrats looking on as the machine they served rumbled towards disaster. And honestly, UK politics has never looked...

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