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We’re all far too sensible to be influenced by advertising, right?  For sure, all of the choices we made while doing our Christmas shopping this year were entirely rational, not possibly swayed by distant marketers, right?  Wrong.  Probably.  A recent article by Adam Corner in Aeon magazine, called Ad

Any sense of “we’re all in this together” appears to evaporate when it comes to those industries that use the most amount of energy.  If a recent lead editorial in The Times is anything to go by, there’s a sense that they are somehow above all that.  But

The Drift Record Shop describes itself as “an immaculately curated independent music specialist based right in the heart of the Devon countryside”. Picking up on Ruth Potts’ suggestion yesterday that “wherever practical and possible develop lasting relationships with things by having and making nothing that is designed to last less

Ruth Potts is the co-author, with Andrew Simms, of a pamphlet called The New Materialism, founder of Bread, Print and Roses, and organiser of the recent ‘Festival of Making’. She describes her work as “inviting people to fall in love with stuff in a good way”.  We sat down with

It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that I never really got the whole keeping fit thing.  I share an office with people whose idea of a good time is running across Dartmoor at night with a head torch on, hours in the gym or cycling across

What would our food system look like if the impacts of production on the environment and on public health were taken into account?  At present the polluter doesn’t pay, and those producing food sustainably are not rewarded for positive outcomes.  How might things work if the true costs of