Issue 23 Beyond Matter – Sublime

Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy

laurasan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:16:55 +0000

Moving through former incarnations to its current version – 4.0 – Kaletsky shows how, in the evolution of its different phases, capitalism has been polarised. The breaking down of the 1930s classic capitalist system was followed by a Keynesian model emphasising a greater role for the government and a lesser role for the market. In...

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Four Fish: A journey from the Ocean to Your Plate

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

His qualifications indisputable, Greenberg’s enquiries on how we fish salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna led him on a journey to Alaska, Israel and the Shetlands, where he spends time with a cast of fascinating characters. Where consumers consume – our intake of fish has doubled over the last fifty years as stocks are depleted...

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Soul Boy

laurasan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:56:46 +0000

Joe is tired with the monotony of life, until one day he meets Jane (Nichola Burley), a glamorous and totally- out-of-his-league local girl. Desperate to impress, Joe and his socially inept friend Russ (Alfie Allen) follow her to the new Wigan Casino to discover what appears to be a decrepit dance hall. Suddenly the scene is...

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A Life in Music

Hanspeter Kuenzler — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:05:10 +0000

Don’t trust anyone over thirty, the Californian activist Jack Weinberger postulated in 1964. For forty years, the music business bought into this dubious credo. But things have begun to change in the last few years. More and more rock and pop stars from the 1960s and 1970s have demonstrated how to age gracefully. Some have...

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Cents and Sustainability

laurasan — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:34:21 +0000

Gro Brundtland’s imperative to sustainable development, while considering the reduction of poverty and adhering to clean and green investment may have been considered utopian then, but books such as Cents and Sustainability, or Paul Collier’s The Plundered Planet demonstrate it is a real possibility. Massively researched and meticulously put together, Cents and Sustainability is positioned...

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The Good Life

Jen Marsden — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

We’ve ditched our underground travel systems and motorways, and I hop about from A to B in my individual zero-carbon transport pod. The West has the most powerful information system ever known, yet on an individual level, partly because I’m no spring chicken, I struggle with the latest-generation MIT Sixth Sense device that provides constant...

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The Gene Delusion

John Grant — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

My son asked me recently whether I believed in God. My reply was that I believe – I think – that there may be some sort of intelligence shaping the universe, including our little corner of it. And that some of the ideas and experiences we describe as religious may be inklings of that intelligence....

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Iris Van Herpen

Laura Santamaria — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Iris Van Herpen forms her collections around historic and abstract themes, and by experimenting with techniques more associated with product design than fashion, she has pioneered the use of rapid prototyping, a technology that allows a designer to design their creation onscreen and then ‘print’ it in 3D. Since graduating from ArtEZ Academy of Art...

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The Big Share Option

laurasan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Although Rachel Botsman, co-author of What’s Mine Is Yours discovered the title for her book on an Elliot Morris CD, the title could not be more fitting for a book about the rise of Collaborative Consumption. The bones of her ideas are based on years of research, which has revealed that decades of ‘Hyper-Consumption’ are...

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Finding Your Soul

Laura Santamaria — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Some years ago, I was talking to a young woman who, with her husband, was preparing to work with an aid agency in the developing world. It sounded like quite a sacrifice they were making, and I asked her how they had received this vocation. This was the story she told me

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