Patagonia
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Set amid glorious panoramic landscapes – the verdant Welsh hills and the golden wilderness of Patagonia – at the southernmost tip of Argentina, the film acknowledges aspirations of an earlier…
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Minding My Peas and Cucumbers
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Kay Sexton’s idealistic vision of self-sufficiency is rudely shattered by immersion into the alien and hostile world of archaic rules and regulations, hosepipe standoffs, competitive vegetable-growing and biblical-scale pest invasions.…
Reducing Landfill With Spencer Brown
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‘I’d like to buy your trash.’ That request earned Spencer Brown, a product designer and founder of Rent-a-Green Box, plenty of sceptical looks when he stepped onto a southern Californian…
Out In The Open
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We’ve just begun the interview, and American artist Spencer Tunick receives a call from his wife. She asks him to read the grocery list: eggs for the two children, waffles,…
Waste Land
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Long camera shots give a unique perspective of the vast scale of this colourful moving mountain of refuse, and the ant-like industry of the numerous catadores that live off its…
A Potted History of Vegetables
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If you find these facts food for thought, then read on. With allotments and green spaces never so popular, seasonal and local produce the order of the day and a…
Less Meat More Veg
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With photographs that pull you in, impressively designed and recipe- and idea-rich, Less meat more veg shows how to reverse that statistic with tasty, wholesome fare. Sections on game, poultry and red…
The Meat Crisis
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In the next fifty years, at the current rate of consumption, a doubling of meat and milk production is predicted, with the slaughter of animals annually forecast to rise from…
Flawed Is Beautiful
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A museum is already holding a retrospective of her work, which looks set to be regarded as one of the most important female designers of her generation, Hella Jongerius has…
