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Sustainability, collaboration and creativity are at the basis of the changes currently being experienced by our society. Since 2008, Defiant Imagination has been looking at how these concepts are being applied to different areas of our daily life: urbanism, food, the economy, social media, and more.
Its author, Flavie Halais, is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist.-
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The Atlantic’s Biggest Ideas of the Year
In its July/August issue (already on the newsstands since June, go figure,) the Atlantic proposes a list of “The 11½ Biggest Ideas of the Year” that dominated American news and national affairs. Not surprisingly, they deal mostly with recurring themes: the war, the presidential elections, the war, global warming, the economic crisis and… the war. On a lighter tone, some less significant ideas were scattered on the side. For example, in the “Newly conventional ideas we used to think unimaginable” list, you’ll find “Viable nonwhite or nonmale presidential candidates” next to “Your dad on Facebook.” My favourite one: “Talking to our enemies” in the “Seemingly horrifying ideas that could have potential…”