The decision to destroy my carefully built-up virtual image came as a result of wanting to enhance my profile.

Warhol managed to encapsulate the increasing emptiness of modern existence. If you want more meaningful art, build a more meaningful world.

The modern woman prefers hi-tech weaponry to cute plastic food containers.

What if Japan, the face of the future, is showing us who we are becoming – as a kind of proverbial ‘canary in a coal mine,’ a Cassandra of our trans-cultural futures.

When the life Sontag loved fell away and the death she feared took over, relaxation set into her body for the first time, a smile appeared on her lips and her brow unfurled.

Amidst all the hoopla of ad campaigns, business news and growth projections, a close examination of our consumer culture reveals a very ugly truth: it thrives on the death of nature, and charges the cost to future generations.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. We still have time to redesign our economic model. All it takes is a critical mass of visionaries to step forward.

Val Plumwood saw the danger of the western attitude towards nature decades before eco-consciousness went mainstream.

Minds bend and break under the strain of a cultural disconnection from the natural world.

Children who spend more time inside than in the wilderness experience poorer health in adulthood. We must let them roam free once again.

The more Facebook infringes upon people’s privacy, the more people need to kill their connection with the social-networking site.