Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992, there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs to be sustainable. This text charts the growth of these ideas by beginning with a visionary piece written by Barbara Ward in the 1970s, and ends with a chapter looking ahead another 30 years into the future. Two generations of thinkers and activists have helped to shape environment and development policy and increase local level power in environmental management. In celebration of their 30th...

This book traces the development of a personal research programme over a period of many years. The starting point for the programme was a realisation that research in design seemed to have no clear goal of what it was trying to achieve. A key insight for me was to realise that if we wanted to develop a robust, independent discipline of design (rather than let design be subsumed within paradigms of science or the arts), then we had to be much more articulate about the particular nature of design activity, design behaviour and design cognition. We had to build a network of arguments and...

John thinks he's just gotten lucky with a group of very beautiful women, waking up the next day to discover his freedom has ended, and he's now being tortured and indoctrinated into a world of very strict female dominants. As he gets dragged deeper and deeper into this society of femdoms, he begins to discover information about this secretive group, uncovering hints of an even more secretive organization called Haven, the elusive, ultimate Holy Grail of everyone who has ever desired to be a lifestyle submissive. As he discovers more, he also begins to realize that those women may have chosen...