A spent force?
The News Review:
- A spent force?
- India Rising: Art Since Independence
- Bugs in Termite Guts May Offer Future Fuel Source
A spent force?
Guardian Unlimited – May 25, 2005
Mitchell, 32, left university in Minnesota with a degree in urban geography, history and political science, ran her own cafe for a while, and worked in business before joining the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in 1997. Launched by four activists in Washington DC 30 years ago to “advance sustainable, equitable and community-centred economic development”, it has grown into a campaigning force, with Mitchell, now based in Portland, Maine, one of its drivers. Her book, The Home Town Advantage, outlining the challenges and opportunities of rediscovering (and encouraging) home-grown businesses, has provided a spur for action across the US and complemented a project called New Rules (to encourage local enterprise) which Mitchell heads. “We help communities feel empowered and give them the tools [to oppose],” she explains while squirming at the Hexham shop fronts. “We try to highlight what the disadvantages are, the hidden costs and the losses of what has been done, and we certainly would look at a street like this and say, ‘You’re losing a community and a local economy’. “In the vast majority of those stores, the money going in is leaving the local area entirely. Local shops would be using local services, accountants, builders, all kinds of people, and the money they took would be re-spent in the local economy.
India Rising: Art Since Independence
Forbes – May 25, 2005
Those works, says Arani Bose, are getting harder and harder to find. Husain, the only Progressive who stayed in India, has become the movement’s most recognizable name. Throughout his career, he has drawn heavily on home-grown themes ranging from his early paintings of rural idylls, musicians and Hindu epics to later series on Mother Teresa, British Raj stereotypes and Bollywood film. He has filtered it all through a cubistic style, assimilating the color and spatial concepts of Indian miniature paintings and the compositions and gestures of Indian temple sculpture. His early, heavily impastoed works are among the most desirable. Another leader of the Progressives was Francis Newton Souza, best known for landscapes, cityscapes and images of women he painted during his London years. Collectors especially covet his oil-on-masonite works from 1952-64, looking for those with his signature bold black lines.
Bugs in Termite Guts May Offer Future Fuel Source
ABC News – May 25, 2005
And where does this Nobel laureate get his inspiration? From termites. Or more specifically: the guts of termites. Chu, who won the Nobel for physics in 1997, isn’t claiming that termites can save the world, as one headline recently screamed. But he does believe that the natural processes that allow termites to turn the hard fabric of plant material — cellulose — into an ethanol-like fuel hold secrets that could lead to cheap, clean-burning and virtually limitless fuel.