Issue 31 Work it Out – Sublime

Radiant Comfort

Jenny Page — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

FOR HER Korres Guava Lip Butter 6g, £6 rich in shea butter and rice wax to soften and hydrate. Adds a lightly tinted shine finish Ark Age Aware Skincare Age Prepare Skin Vitality Moisturiser 50ml, £25 specifically tailored for teens-to-30s skin, antioxidant moisturiser is rich in oleic acid from avocado and peach lipids, and algae. Contains white tea and...

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The Laws Of Nature

Katrine Carstens — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:14:31 +0000

Roaming the swamplands around his home in New York State as a child, James Thornton knew he had a passion. He loved the insects, the vegetation and most of all, the birds. But not even in his wildest flights of fancy could he have predicted that his love of nature would take him to...

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Undersea Magic

laurasan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:09:02 +0000

Sublime: How and when did you start exploring the underwater world, and narrating your experiences through photography? Troy Mayne: I started diving when I was 19. My first dive was off the Great Barrier Reef. It was mind-blowing. I was hooked! I knew immediately that I’d be diving for the rest of my...

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Getting Closer

Katrine Carstens — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:53:08 +0000

More than four decades ago, a Danish man called Jan Gudmand-Hoyer had a vision. He was an architect who dreamed of creating a place where people of all ages and backgrounds could live together and build a community while retaining a sense of individuality and privacy. What emerged was the concept of bofællesskab, roughly...

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A Green New World

Gabriel O'Rorke — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:29:16 +0000

Some say travel is a human right, others that it is a luxury. With climate change and global shortages on the one hand, and the fact that the tourist industry generates income and employment on the other, travel is a subject that provokes hot debate. Yet for many of us, travel serves as a much-needed...

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Under Their Own Steam

Katrine Carstens — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:24:49 +0000

In 1997, the Isle of Eigg was the focus of international attention, with headlines sweeping the globe to places as far away as New Zealand, the US, Bonn and Buenos Aires. The island community was fed up: it had endured centuries of exploitation by lairds under an archaic feudal system of landlordism. A groundswell...

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The Artful Engineer

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:57:49 +0000

Poised above his sketchpad, faced with the challenge of designing a roof for the 2012 Olympic velodrome, engineer Chris Wise asked himself: ‘What would nature do?’

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Great Expectations

Frances Corner — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:19:33 +0000

In the opening chapter of his biography, Dickens, Peter Ackroyd points out the parallels between our time and that of the Victorians. Dickens’s death came as evidence of a giant transition; in these last decades of the 19th century, the English people were witnesses to the fatal disruptions of an old order and the uneasy...

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Our Future In The Making

David Buckland — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:06:43 +0000

The climate conference in Durban has come and gone, and there is a proposed agreement to start curbing greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020. I am tempted to reflect on Rome burning while Nero fiddled, but that is just my cheap take on, or total frustration with, the situation. Economist Lord Stern has now called for a...

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What’s Your Problem?

John Grant — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:58:08 +0000

What is the problem with Western culture? How is it we have become so stuck? I’d like to suggest that, gasp, our core issue as a culture is actually our obsession with solving problems. We are a self-help society, and not just in the New Age section of the bookshop, but in the entire Western...

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