Without wishing to conform too rigidly to the stereotype of hyperbolic and scaremongering nature of environmentalists, life on this planet as we know it is on a set course to destruction and it’s businesses fault. The commercialised industrialisation of our environments and lifestyles has allowed economic growth, living standards and societal advancement to prosper. But…
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When a chord is struck close to home, maybe it’s the sad eyes of a child who isn’t white, the pleading cries of a kitten, or the recognised menace behind polar bear cubs playing with a piece of abandoned plastic, most people are hit with the heartrending need to offer what they have to stop…
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Once a unique look at the variety that British towns offered across the country, a trip to another county’s high street today is now a bleak déjà vu of every other. Another Boots, New Look, EE store with the same window-dress, vinyl stickers, and unenthusiastic staff. The backdrop may change, with a looming church spire…
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The providers of cheap goods, the convenience demagogues, the prophets of accessibility and the grim reaper of family owned business. Since the 1950s, supermarkets have held our high streets and wallets to ransom by a thin veneer of vinyl signage professing low prices and big deals to distract from the sterilisation of regional culture on…
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Capitalism and sustainability. Both are vague, slippery words that evade simple definitions. They conjure up a soup of jargon and ideological catchphrases, shoehorned into political addresses and calls for action. Free market, divestment, ecological preservation, free trade, stock exchange, assets, resources, ethical consumerism, conscious consumerism, free consumerism, resource-based economy, competition. Capitalism? Sustainability? The two have…
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Here’s to the best seat in the house. The focal point of sitting rooms and living rooms alike and the primary influence of everything else in the room. The sofa, where you veg out, drink tea, spill tea and spend 1,460 hours a year in front of the TV. From your claimed spot on the…
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A short summary of the outcome of our last 200 years of industry; human activity is warming up the planet, and that’s bad for everything on it. Critics and psychopaths exempt, it’s a widely accepted fact, except by an orange troll in the driving seat of the 4th largest country. The next chapter of the…
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