Fear No Boundary?
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The desire to cross oceans and push back the boundaries of the known world gripped countless explorers in preceding centuries, yet was still fresh in the nineteen hundreds. Apart from…
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Fluid And Flexible
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Traditional boundaries are disappearing. As work and leisure time become more fluid, generational boundaries dissolve and what’s real and virtual merge, we’re demanding more flexible lives. We change jobs…
Antivirus Activist
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It is a long, slow dance in which he and HIV are engaged; on the good days, Pontiano sees the incremental steps forward. On the bad ones, the virus seems…
Waste Not, Want Not
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In slightly broken English, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban charmingly but steadfastly refutes easy throwaway media-friendly notions and labels. ‘What is a green person anyway?’ he asks. ‘Someone with a low carbon footprint,’ I gamely respond. ‘What do you mean,’ he counters. ‘Someone who doesn’t produce much carbon or pollution … It sounds like someone living in a jungle!’ he says gently but completely seriously.
Fabien Cousteau Amazon Call
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The banks of the Amazon River hide a deceptively intricate network of rich biodiversity that my family and I have explored for a quarter of a century. Despite the downward…
The Controlling Element
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As every schoolchild knows, we human beings are 70 per cent water, not counting the fat. We need between one and seven litres of water per day to keep going,…
Water Wars
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The trouble with water – and there is trouble with water – is that they’re not making any more of it. They’re not making any less, but no more either…
Homes On The Go
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It’s paradoxical, but it seems that the more we have in the First World, and arguably the more blessed we are, the less free many of us feel. Homes and material possessions take on ever greater importance and rather than simply meeting our need for shelter and security, become millstones around our necks. Increasingly disconnected from nature, and one another, we find ourselves dreaming of a simpler existence.
Clean Start
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Over one century old, the industry contributes countless billions to the global economy, employing many millions of workers around the world (an estimated 12m in the EU are ‘directly or…
