Yes, they can look pretty, but Diana Balmori’s landscaping projects can also change cities, make people happier and healthier and battle climate change. A pioneer of the green roofs movement, she helped build New York’s…
Wednesday 24 October
It’s the bits in between that look so wrong. Sure the towers tower and the palaces glint but the gaps in between the buildings, that’s where it often falls down, where the urban vision is suddenly rather hazy.
Sunday 27 September
Have the latest revelations about a secret uranium-enrichment plant made an Israeli attack in Iran more probable, imminent even?
Kajima, one of Japan’s largest engineering firms, built the country’s first concrete dam and nuclear reactor. Now it’s at the forefront again, this time in the field of urban biodiversity. We meet the man who sees the…
Sunday 17 October
The red sludge that engulfed towns and villages after a reservoir burst at MAL’s aluminium plant in Ajka, western Hungary, is steadily being cleared away but its toxic legacy remains.
Syria's latest with David Schenker, we speak to Rahul Bedi about the Indian Suzuki plant dispute, and chat with a bar-owner selling only tap water.
Trees: how the French stay trimmed at Tuileries Garden, Delhi’s planting mistakes left by the British, and why trees can be a mayor’s best friend.
A visit to the ICA’s new Soundworks exhibition, we talk plant life with Dr Daniel Chamovitz, and discuss modern poetry with film director Alex Ramseyer-Bache.
We do the business news in Los Angeles with John Corrigan and speak to Kenji Hall in Japan about the Ohi nuclear power plant.
The Obama's grand designs on their private White House living quarters, going Dutch in the Antilles, planting seeds of change in Detroit and the Interoceanic Highway near completion - maybe.
As Iceland’s Geir Haarde stands trial, we ask how responsible he is for the financial crisis? Plus, Richard Lloyd Parry’s experience at the Fukushima plant.
The latest from Texas after a deadly explosion at a fertiliser plant, we take a look at what comes next in Syria, and check the health of the German publishing industry.
It builds one new coal power plant every week, and is the largest emitter of carbon emissions in the world. But as world leaders gather for Copenhagen’s climate change conference, China is also the nation that could save…
A look at Somalia’s future, Morocco’s new record-breaking car plant, and the newspaper review from Monocle’s Budapest correspondent Adam LeBor.
We look at plans to build a ski slope around a waste plant in Copenhagen and why men still buy suits in times of crisis.
Work on a new motorway to drastically improve the Phillipines' infrastructure gets underway, tree planting takes off in China to combat desertification and Kabul to educate the population on conservation, while India's…
The popularity of ‘natural’ cosmetics and remedies has burgeoned, and Austria is one of Europe’s top markets. In Vienna a group of friends with a passion for botany and herbal medicine are championing the use of local…
Richard Lloyd Parry describes his visit to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, we get business news from Paris and discuss the Palestinian film industry.
We visit the world’s freakiest bookstore, Robert Luis of Brighton hip-hop label Tru Thoughts selects tunes, and Carol Montpart from the Plant Journal discusses magazines.
Why Jordan is building two new nuclear plants, what would happen if North Korea actually invaded the south, and we see what all the fuss is about embalming someone.
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