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• Business / Innovation

  Germany's Bottle Bank

  

  Issue 1

  Germany is the eighth biggest exporter of wine, shipping 280 million litres in 2005; but it’s also the world’s largest importer of wine, buying 1.19 billion litres the same year. Like France, the country has struggled…

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  Affairs / Innovation

  Here's to the future

  Issue 19

  There’s a real sense that we are entering a new era, with a fresh, sharp president in the White House and an economy in flux. Here five leading thinkers, writers and academics – Alain de Botton, Paula Scher, Andrew J Bac…

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  Affairs / Innovation

  Africa/Middle East Briefing

  

  Issue 43

  Our column from Pretoria looks at how South Africa is manoeuvering itself into a world-power position. Plus elections in Seychelles, educating ultra-orthodox children in Israel and demanding change in Lebanon.

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  Business / Innovation

  That's just how I roll

  

  Issue 55

  Vélo Québec is the guiding force behind Montréal’s much imitated bike culture, a model that is being exported around the world. The woman in the saddle explains how she forged a lean, green urban lifestyle.

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• Design / Innovation

  Back in your box

  

  Issue 26

  How do you make voting simpler, appealing and important? It’s a challenge Norway has tried to solve. The solution is a vote winner.

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  Business / Innovation

  All in it together

  

  Issue 61

  As companies around the world collapse into administration it would seem that the frenzied pursuit of profit in these straitened times can have an unfortunate side effect: bankruptcy. But the global resurgence of co-oper…

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  Affairs / Innovation

  Up for adoption

  

  Issue 9

  In Germany home-owners can generate power and sell it to the national grid. Genoa runs an inspiring van-share scheme that’s cutting congestion and in Estonia they have adopted a simple fiscal reform that’s kept the economy…

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  Business / Innovation

  Ideas to steal

  

  Issue 45

  Making the word’s busiest cities a little more ordered should be top of most urban planners to-do lists. And when one city strikes on an idea that works, it seems the rest of the globe is keen to catch up.

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• Affairs / Innovation

  How to...

  

  Issue 60

  No one is better placed to offer valuable advice on tricky projects and ambitious, world-changing actions than the people at the sharp end – precisely the kind of individuals giving the benefit of their hard-won experience…

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  Edits / Innovation

  Garfish and friends

  

  Issue 16

  Jacob Jensen’s products for Bang & Olufsen made design history in the 1960s and 1970s, but his design philosophy is perhaps more relevant today than ever. For an imaginary final lunch he chooses the “incredibly well-desi…

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  Edits / Innovation

  Inventory no. 61

  

  Issue 61

  This month, the natural world brings wood, leather and rare essences to the fore and creates unexpected combinations with chocolate-and-caramel tea and a vodka that starts life with a cow.

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  Affairs / Innovation

  Asia briefing

  

  Issue 20

  Urban farming in Japan, Korea's mission to put its cuisine on the map, and farewell to to Cambodia's "bamboo" railways.

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