The world around us seems as turbulent as it has ever been. Tremors across industry, across culture, across the environment, are profoundly reshaping everything we know. We started The Alpine Review as an attempt to understand those tremors from a long-term point of view — to look at how our immediate moment is shaped by the past and will shape us in the future.
A collection of ideas, thoughts and recent developments related to our environment and milieu.
The dawn of the anthropocene is forcing us to confront the full extent of our impact, beyond the physical destruction of habitat, to include social and cultural impact across species. What are the implications?
Always pushing computing capacity further, Google has now invested in a quantum computer.
Louis-Jacques Darveau sat down with the pair to talk about new operating systems, Wirearchy, and the importance of dynamic organizations.
Redefining what success in business looks like, enterprises big and small are proving their worth by voluntarily meeting higher standards of transparency, accountability and performance—distinguishing themselves by offering a vision of a better way to do business.
Beyond the headlines of targeted killings and privacy issues lies a story of a technology rife with possibility as it enters into our everyday life, for better or for worse.
A curated list of interesting makers that caught our eye.
A good read can be hard to find; we present our list of books and magazines that are worth making time for.
Alas, Vincon is no more and department stores are not exactly thriving. Perhaps IKEA is eating the design world, but Vincon should be remembered and revered as the icon of good taste that it was.
A creative Berliner looking for a challenge also finds community in post-revolutionary Egypt where chaos is but one story among many.
Communications between citizens and their institutions is often problematic, discouraging people from engaging. Brickstarter is a platform to turn possibilities into proposals into projects.
When Ireland’s economy collapsed in 2008, the government saw an opportunity to enact a smart carbon tax that would benefit not only the economy but also the environment.
Tracking interesting signals, ideas and questions that make society move.
Urban agriculture and community gardens are sprouting up all over the world, creating a breeding ground for learning experiences, community living and a better quality of life.
As DIY culture evolves into DIWO (Do It With Others, more commonly referred to as creative coworking) there is an increasing demand for places to connect and create — enter FabCafe.
The field of psychological trauma is evolving to recognize that adversity may actually be good for you.
Permanence is a contradictory idea. The moment of “now” is as fiercely urgent as it has ever been. Now is the only time we will ever live in, and the only time we can do anything about.
How to we make sense of our shared human experience given that we seem trapped into the limited persona of the 'consumer'? Here we connect Sandel and Lapham through the concept of the "skyboxification" of life.
Put your weapons down. The gaming industry has been turned on its head by the de-mocratization of development and distribution tools, paving the way for games as a form of deeply personal art. A new wave of standouts signals the way forward for a mature creative medium.
Could it be that our collective obsession with mid-century modern design serves as familiar comfort amidst the overwhelming immediacy of an ever-present, ever-ephemeral now?
The popular acceptance of professional management theory is now being challenged by two corporate categories that had previously been relegated to its margins: the conglomerate and the family businesses.
When we remember everything, do we understand anything?
Ideas, thoughts and signals shaping the world of media.
A collection of ideas and thoughts that point to the future of architecture and urbanism.
A curated list of interesting makers that caught our eye — Audi buys iconic motorcycle maker Ducati.
Ingrid Burrington is one of the few researchers and designers paying attention to the infrastructure that powers and connects all our shiny gadgets and gives us access to all the knowledge in the world.
Is the risk of losing digital identities in a flash really a fair trade for infinite access? Or should we all just defer to the old shoebox to keep photos of grandma safe?
Magazines are artefacts; a presence in one’s home, library, cafe, hotel or meeting place. Increasingly, magazines have been using this power to expand their reach into the real world, communicating identity and acting as a platform.
Ann Friedman gives her no-nonsense take on durability in modern-day journalism, reflecting upon the timely and the timeless, the ephemeral and the evergreen.
Marcus Westbury’s Renew Newcastle organization has provided an exciting, replicable, low-budget model for urban renewal, focused on taking down not just the boards in the windows but the barriers to entry.
Robert Rowland Smith argues that the “Age of Ideas” has reached its peak. So what comes next?
Launching a print publication is as daunting as it is enlightening. Looking back on the process and looking forward to the future, our editor, Patrick Tanguay, explains the common threads woven into The Alpine Review.
In 2011, Lufa Farms built the world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse. Through innovation and technology, the Montreal-based initiative has been working on changing the way cities eat.
America’s most articulate and passionate farmer, Joel Salatin, tells us about integrity, the new tribalism and why—unless you’re Mr. T—you need to care about agriculture.
