Pre-Industrial

Thinking through the archives of ‘industrial time’ – from Jane Eyre to the IPCC report.

Capital Growth and British Waterways have teamed up in a bid to convert London’s canals into flourishing floating vegetable gardens.

During the past weeks, the world’s media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global fi nancial system. At stake are billions in bail-outs and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and investments of hundreds of millions of ordinary people.

The internet once represented something like freedom for Tom Hodgkinson, but the honeymoon ended when the problems of the virtual life became all-too-real

Convenient, flimsy, costly, cynical, manipulative, wasteful, deadly...we'll never forget the plastic bag