Surviving Progress Film Review
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Directed by Mathieu Roy, it’s partly telling us what we already know – that consumption at the current rate is unsustainable – but they way it’s delivered means it has serious…
Art & Culture
Beyond Clever
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This past month has been a roller-coaster ride of success and struggle for the climate agenda. Nature Climate Change has just published a feature on Cape Farewell: Climate is Culture,…
Our Future In The Making
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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…
Perfect Shot
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At a time when anyone and everyone can take photographs with a mere tap of their phone, award-winning image-maker Lottie Davies reminds us that the art of capturing moments on…
Handmade Houses
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This question, one loaded with the bubbling excitement of infinite possibility and freedom, is at the core of Richard Olsen’s Handmade Houses, an inspiring book charting a century of ‘green’ architecture…
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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What’s 17 times 24? You probably can’t be bothered to work out the answer. The part of the brain necessary is what Daniel Kahneman calls System 2, the ‘thinking’ bit…
The Lean Startup
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This book by self-confessed start-up failure Eric Ries seeks to destroy the myth of the Great Man; the Richard Bransons and Mark Zuckerbergs. What Ries – who eventually led his…
Climate is Culture
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How do we start to do things differently? I have just returned to London after a month on the road, which has taken me to Toronto, New York and Washington.…
Singing in the Key of Life
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It’s a tough call to interview Kirsty Bertarelli. The Sunday Times Rich List ranks her as the wealthiest woman in Britain, and she is a former Miss UK turned successful…
