Issue 7 New Energy – Sublime

Going, Going, Gone…

Jeremy Leggett — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000

The world expects several decades of growing supplies of generally affordable oil. Every corporate and ministerial plan is geared to this assumption. Beyond the peak of global oil production the world will face shrinking supplies of increasingly expensive oil. That is a manageable proposition if the peak is several decades away. It is a major problem if the peak is imminent.

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Concrete Forms

laurasan — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Like all architects who have attained international recognition and status, David Adjaye is rarely in one place very long. We caught the Tanzanian-born 41-year-old just before a talk he gave for the Architecture Foundation at London’s Tate Modern. He was there to present his latest project, a contemporary art museum in Denver.

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Creative Energy

Wayne Hemingway — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000

It is not an impossible ask. This generation can be exalted, remembered and leave an impact as epoch-making as the Victorians’ with their Industrial Revolution, which lifted millions of lives out of economic, educational and social poverty. By bringing in a Green Revolution we can leave a positive footprint every bit as lasting and...

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