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Lulu Rouge – intense Scandinavian electronic music for a late summer evening. Lovely! ‘Bless You’ is their debut album.

Sigur Rós – their latest album makes its promises of the previous releases more than true. It’s gorgeous again.

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YOUTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TIME FOR ACTION
Today is World Youth Day, a day that youth organisations and movements worldwide gather to take action and stand up  on climate change.
A major focus of the Day is practical action to further encourage the empowerment and participation of youth in the processes and decisions that affect their lives. [...]

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Lovely concept, great design.
‘This is SCHOOL’  is a t-shirt that’s a counterpoint to all the negative sentiment the Beijing Olympics has been stirring up.  And it is also a reminder that the Olympics is all about UNITY, which the shirt shows by featuring every single competing nation in a yummy word track.
Read more at SCHOOL…

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Usually I’m quite an optimist when talking about future-related trends, how to act on climate change etc. But this article in The Guardian struck me quite a lot…
Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warns today. We have only 100 months to avoid disaster. Andrew Simms [...]

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For the last three decades, it’s been more or less assumed that globalization was a force that moved in only one direction — towards ever-greater integration.
And due to the logic of global trade, the assumption of ever greater integration led to the prediction that manufacturing would continue to move from countries with low labor costs [...]

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