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The Guardian’s editor Alan Rushbridger has 6 months left at his post and has a revelation over the holidays that he needs to leave a legacy by doing something meaningful. Inspired by a trip to Sweden where we meets Bill McKibben, an author, climate change advocate and the force behind 350.org....
For companies operating in America’s $760bn food and $435bn restaurant business, it’s never been more interesting time, because of a combination of forces that are overturning some of the established traditions and thinking. Many of our favorite food brands grew up in an age when Americans...
While the media seems convinced that everything we know will be digitally disrupted out of existence, it’s interesting when you come across something that counters this argument. This week, Rough Trade will do the unspeakable and open a record store in New York. Some of us are old enough to...
It was back in 2006 when Time magazine did the radical thing and named “You” its Person of The Year. Seven years on, it’s therefore somewhat surprising to see The Guardian have repeated that old story when they just released their Top 100 Media Rankings for 2013 and ranked...
In the past week, we’ve seen both Wal-Mart and Target delivered results that didn’t meet expectations. Both companies placed the blame on weak US consumer demand, with Wal-Mart citing increases to payroll tax as having a big impact on spending and Target’s CEO mentioning his...
The Wall Street Journal put together a nice graphic that succinctly explains why US economic growth is slow at best. The answer lies in the fact that while there’s job growth in certain sectors, that growth has been restricted to low paying jobs in the food services, retail, admin and...
France is known as a country with strong food traditions, especially when it comes to bread and wine, but it looks like this is changing. France’s vintners are having a very challenging time convincing the Millennial generation to consume their wares, so they are resorting to drastic...
Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir have done some really interesting work trying to understand the psychological issues around being short on time and money and how to develop strategies that combat these challenges. They’ve published a book on the topic Scarcity: Why Having Too Little...
In a world of relentless and exhausting change, it’s fascinating when you find examples of those who do the extreme opposite; people who manage to resist the temptation to have multiple careers, they aren’t constantly looking for the next new thing and instead stick to one thing and do it for a...
Rachel Botsman is something of an expert when it comes to new business models; she’s been writing about and championing the idea of Collaborative Consumption for quite a while. Sidekick Studios recently did an interview with Rachel and asked her about the meta trends for the next 5-10 years,...
Campbells is one of America’s most iconic food brands and one immortalized by Andy Warhol in the 60s, but fast forward almost 50 years and the brand is not as revered as it once was, for today’s generation of Millennials, Campbells might be something you grew up with, but in a “food...
Future Publishing in the UK is going to launch this September, a new magazine called The Simple Things. It’s one of the first big print publications to take a post-materialist viewpoint and to reflect the values, attitudes and behaviors we seeing in these continued recessionary times. It’s a...
Whole Foods just released stellar quarterly results, with net income rising 32%, which probably had some people scratching their heads, as it was yet another conflicting signal that did not compute with a potential economic downturn. In the question and answer session with analysts after the...
While the country seems increasingly polarized around every topic imaginable, it’s almost utopian to think that we can survive in a Facebook-centric world that’s only focused on Friends and Likes. The company appears to have no room for enemies or dislikes, which has basically left the door...
In a fragmented world, the water cooler effect is bigger than ever, but so very different. Massive news events are now following a similar and somewhat predictable pattern. The news of the recent passing of Whitney Houston was broken on Twitter, rather than a conventional media source and it...