Issue 9 Innovate – Sublime

Passionate Patriarch

Stephen Armstrong — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Many Hollywood actors like to sound off about politics. But few have been on the sharp end of it quite like Donald Sutherland. ‘I was in Yugoslavia when I found out,’ he says, with a fond smile. He is telling me about the day in 1969 when he discovered that his then wife, Shirley...

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Home Evolution

laurasan — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist, writing about New York as a city of change in 2001 shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attack, named Michael McDonough as one of only three New York architects doing work worthy of being described as being ‘on the cutting edge’. He was referring to McDonough’s then recently conceived e-House, a high-performance, website-controlled building tucked deep into the Hudson Valley woods in Stone Ridge, New York, which has been in construction since the beginning of the new millennium.

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Addicted To Novelty

laurasan — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Initially, my first paragraph was about the amazing and baffling technological changes that have taken place in the last ten years, the creations that I really don’t understand, that have changed the way I live my life and made a pile of cash for their inventors and propagators. Innovation seemed to mean something complex,...

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Crap Towns

Wayne Hemingway — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Could our kids do the same today? They have got something we didn’t have – the internet – but their opportunities to experiment at face-to-face retail are limited, and our towns and cities are becoming the worse for this. As pension funds and PLCs buy up the UK, try getting a shop on Neal Street...

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Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Jeremy Leggett — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Climate scientists in government and universities run simulations of future climate that show a very sobering piece of arithmetic. If we are to avoid tipping the planet over the widely accepted danger threshold of 450 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide, we can only afford to burn fossil fuels in a quantity measured in...

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Dare To Be Different

Laura Santamaria — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A white stag was sighted in the highlands of Scotland a few months ago. The appearance of such a rare creature has been considered from time immemorial an omen in the mythology of many cultures. Kings and chiefs feared them as they were believed to herald the death of a ruler. The Celts considered them...

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