Business & Travel

Leading off from my last article on Japanese designer Fumi Masuda, I wanted to quickly mention the LOHAS movement that I referred to.

The title of this story is probably a little misleading, as what we are talking about is very much a reality and coming to Australia in 2012.

Ok so sorry for the business discussion but this stuff is what interests me about the environment more than anything: how business and capitalism is going to deal with it. Plus, this story is about beer. In fact, it's about some of my favorite American beers. But enough about me and my delicious problems, watch Rob Harmon talk about how business is starting to think about longer term approaches to resource sustainability, courtesy, as always, of TED.

Having grown up on acreage in ‘the sticks’, surrounded by bushland, fruit & vegie crops and many kinds of happiness (honestly, it was pretty idyllic circumstances for an inquisitive kid), I tend to forget – city kids need green places to play! And when cities are graded for quality based on things like public transport facilities and level of pedestrian friendliness, well, that’s what makes the work of Topotek1 so wholesome.

Airports use some pretty strange methods to get passengers around before their flight. Dallas replaced a complex underground train system around the terminal with a complex elevated train system.