Global Culture

I’m sure is not because Monocle released their most liveable cities report just a month ago, but now is The Economist releasing their Liveability rankings with the article Where the grass is greener. While Monocle’s report came in the form of a wonderful edition, perfectly written and documented, the Economist Intelligence Unit barely [...]

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Barely a couple of weeks into my new job and I’m already finding myself immersed into fascinating research on why we travel. There are statistics by regions, demographics and other dimensions which are probably not too different from what is available out there. But so many numbers got us thinking about the [...]

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hyper as in linked, and local as in location
In a fascinating dispatch from the future, author Bruce Sterling brings us the ultimate global citizen: Harvey Feldspar, who as a modern Phileas Fogg describes his encounter with world cultures with the only difference that he does it from the year 2017.

If there is a lesson [...]

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I used to live two parallel lives: working as a technologist on a digital agency by day and writing for this blog by night. For more than a year I managed to keep them separate, but blogging was an exercise of introspection and through it I learned of many things that I was [...]

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The Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and a wide variety of organization and endorsed by an impressive list of international figures has launched the Vision of Humanity site.
Peace and sustainability are the cornerstones of humanity’s survival in the 21st century. The major challenges facing humanity today are [...]

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It takes a few passionate citizens to make a difference in a city. And it only takes a few cities to make a difference in the world. So it is very encouraging to see events like Open Cities being organized with a grassroots approach -applying all the good lessons that have created thriving [...]

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The World Without Oil site is reporting gas prices of US$4.45/gal, that is CAD$1.30/liter for all of us using the metric system north of the border. In Canada, the impact hasn’t been felt as quickly as in the U.S., but the various newspapers are reporting alarming price hikes all over the country with [...]

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