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Where On Earth
The Lost City of Tikal
super/collider takes us into the depths of the Mayan jungle, for a study in human fragility
Design & Living
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Where On Earth
Eternal Ice in the Aegean Sun
We teeter along the edges of an extraordinary Turkish "glacier" forged by minerals and hot springs
Design & Living
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Where On Earth
A Path to the Milky Way
We explore the extraordinary telescope erected in the driest place on earth that allows mankind to peer into the cosmos
Design & Living
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Where On Earth
A Hole in the Sea
We skirt around the edges of Belize's Great Blue Hole, a 400 foot abyss in the heart of the ocean
Fashion & Beauty
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Sustainable Culture
The Future of Sustainable Fashion: rêve en vert
We speak to the founders of rêve en vert, an online shopping location dedicated to the best of non-disposable fashion
Design & Living
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Where On Earth
A Lake Of Fire in Central Africa
super/collider dives into the molten depths of the Congo's deadly yet beautiful Mount Nyiragongo volcano
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Watermark by Edward Burtynsky
On the day his exhibition opens at Flowers Gallery, we speak to Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky about his role as a campaigner and exploration of the relationship between humanity and water
Art & Photography
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AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You
Vivienne Westwood on Renewable Energy
Dame Vivienne Westwood tells us why she’s backing a renewable energy fund we can all get in on – and how it could help revolutionise our economic system in the process
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
SALT Festival: A Northern Odyssey
Sustainable Culture meets Helga-Marie Nordby, founder of SALT, a new type of festival that promises a once-in-a-lifetime experience north of the Arctic Circle
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Reasons to be Cheerful: The Days are Getting Longer
The end of the Mayan calendar seems to have had little effect on planetary systems. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we passed our darkest day on December 21st and thankfully the earth continues on its yearly voyage encircling the sun...
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
In Search of Hope
The rhythmic whirr of a helicopter as it lifts a stranded villager to safety from the midst of a drowned settlement, crops wilting into the drained dehydrated earth...
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
In The Land of Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s work involves projects and discussions that nurture community and explore ways of living – with a core principle of “doing less”. In the late 90s, Rirkrit helped establish The Land Foundation...
Art & Photography
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In Pictures
Prypiat, Ukraine
Prypiat, Ukraine, was evacuated after the Chernobyl explosion spread radiation through the town in 1986. Today, the town remains deserted, surrounded on all sides by an exclusion zone of empty rivers, silent forests and abandoned farms...
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Coal
Every year the COAL prize is awarded to an outstanding project exploring art and the environment – and with almost 400 submissions from over 40 different countries standards soared in 2011. This year’s winner was Stefan Shankland’s Marbre d’Ici
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Catalytic Clothing
Imagine walking down a bustling city street, wearing a chic but very normal-looking white dress. As cars, buses and delivery trucks rush past and the exhaust fumes swirl around you, tiny particles on the dress fabric slowly filter the air around
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Battlegrounds
Driven by a fascination for strange spaces and guided by satellite mapping, Malaysia-born photographer Hin Chua has spent the past four years venturing out to capture what he describes as “the ongoing environmental struggle taking place beyond the
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Before & After
Two photography books from the German art publisher Hatje Cantz crossed our (sustainably sourced birch) desk recently, each showing two very different kinds of landscape. Leafing through them side by side brings into focus just how massively we, the
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Overgrowth
Now in its third year, the Prix Pictet is an annual photography competition based around a theme related to sustainability. Water in 2008 and Earth in 2009 have given way to Growth this time around, with entrants invited to capture everything from
Design & Living
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Sustainable Culture
Wasted Land
Located on the Northern outskirts of Rio de Janiero, just over the shoulder of the city’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, lies Gramacho Gardens. Far from the leafy suburb its name would suggest, Jardim Gramacho is in fact South America’s largest
