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Bright lights, big trees: Dutch designer imagines an ‘urban forest’

Jul 10, 2015

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City links: Blueprints for a neighbourhood of tree houses and smiley-face signals to reduce road rage feature in this week’s best city stories

Yoko Ono: ‘To be an artist you need courage’

Jul 9, 2015

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Editorial Team

in Art, Green

For more than 50 years Yoko Ono has been campaigning – for peace, for feminism, for gun control and, most recently, against fracking. This tireless activism, she says, is at the heart of her work as an artist. Alex Needham meets her at home in New York

Natural dyes v synthetic: which is more sustainable?

Jun 30, 2015

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Editorial Team

in Fashion, Green

Colours derived from plants may appear more planet-friendly than man-made dyes, but the case isn’t clear-cut

The Elephant R.U.N. at Shangri-La’s Hambantota Resort & Spa: Upcycling Waste into Works of Art

Jun 25, 2015

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Editorial Team

in Art, Green

In 2016, Sri Lanka will have a new Shangri-La luxury resort called Hambantota Resort & Spa. An Eco Centre will be built on site, to teach and educate guests, colleagues and local school children about conservation and Sri Lanka’s environment. The resort’s biodiversity programme will focus primarily on the development of elephant conservation programmes in and…

Climate change should be top foreign policy priority, G7 study says

Jun 25, 2015

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Editorial Team

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Global warming ‘ultimate threat multiplier’ posing serious risk to world security, says report urging governments not to see it simply as a climate issue