Message In A Bottle
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This April, defying all rationale, Rothschild will set sail from San Francisco, California in the hope of travelling 11,500 nautical miles across the world’s largest and arguably most unpredictable sea…
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Hidden Connections
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Klingberg’s work is made of things that surround us and take up our time and attention. Its basic raw materials are the logos from low-price store chains and mass-produced goods…
Energy Payback
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Fixing our dangerously fragile energy infrastructure has to start with energy demandmanagement. Here we know enormous reservoirs of efficiency exist,pumped full of carbon to be saved, simply waiting to be…
Being There
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We quickly became a team. When we didn’t have enough money to pay the rent, we emptied our wardrobes of Gerardine’s homemade clothes and my collection of second-hand clothes onto a table in Camden Market. We subsequently opened a stall in the sadly missed Kensington Market and our first brand, Red or Dead, was born.
Reaching For The Stars
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In September 2000, the heads of state of some 180 countries gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Like the rest of us, they saw the millennium…
Eight
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One of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Just some of the grave challenges we faced today – from combating AIDS and improving maternal health to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger…
A World Apart
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As you descend onto the moonscape of Iceland, a large frosted island located at a point on the mid-Atlantic ridge where tectonic shifts have played incredible tricks on the landscape,…
Pure And Simple Does It Every Time
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Journalists and people in the street alike have been quick to blame the banks for the ‘irresponsible practices’ that have created the current financial crisis. But what about our own borrowing and spending habits? Are we taking personal responsibility for our own situation
Elemental Force
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Since my last column, the world has turned on its axis. Watching the world’s finances spin into meltdown in a matter of weeks, the idea that catastrophe can lie just around the corner must suddenly seem horribly tangible to many people. For the banking executive, catastrophe lies in the mammoth hole in his balance sheet and the collapse of his institution. On top of this horror, some bankers find themselves the subject of criminal investigation by the FBI.
