Craft meets crowdfunding: halting a rural brain drain in the Balkans
A Serbian social enterprise links skilled craftspeople with modern designers in a bid to reboot the beleaguered rural economy. Could a crowdfunding campaign scale operations up?
New Zealand MP in Māori facial tattoo first
The tattoo on the chin of New Zealand MP Nanaia Mahuta is much more than a mark of pride. It is a symbol of remembrance and personal strength
Cowbells in the Carpathians: cycling in search of Romania’s secret wilderness
With half of Europe’s remaining virgin forest, Romania holds a state of wilderness that has been lost in much of the continent. Sam Sutaria cycles across the country and asks what it could teach [...]
Lessons for modern living from nature-based cultures
Professor Jules Pretty has travelled the world to explore how and why people live close to nature. In his book, The Edge of Extinction, he examines this relationship and discovers that money [...]
Threads of empowerment
A Faroese knitwear brand is helping to empower women through heritage crafts via a Danish detective and a killer jumper
