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Food & Drink

Meatable is reframing the cultivated meat narrative

Design agency Studio Koto has created a new visual identity for meat alternative Meatable that aims to address consumers’ suspicions about in-vitro meat.

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Travel & Hospitality

A platform matching Spanish urbanites with rural towns

Vente a Vivir a un Pueblo, which translates as Come Live in a Town, is a new Spanish platform helping urbanites discover rural locations as potential future homes.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Diversifying Nature

As consumers swap once-bustling metropolitan hubs for greener spaces, collectives and brands are ensuring the great outdoors remains accessible to all.

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Food & Drink

Rural Luxury Market

City living is losing its allure as affluent consumers look to the countryside for a more stable and idyllic lifestyle.

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Colliding Technologies

Covid-19 is accelerating our working landscape

The fallout from Covid-19 has transformed not only how people in the UK work but where, marking a major turning point for how organisations operate.

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Technology

This village suggests how humans could live on Mars

Interstellar Lab has unveiled its plans to build a closed-loop terrestrial village called EBIOS (experimental bio-regenerative station) in the Mojave Desert in 2021.

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Luxury

Stat: Affluent Americans are uprooting to smaller cities

Sale prices of luxury homes in metropolitan areas are in modest decline, marking the first year-on-year drop in recent years, according to a new report from Redfin.

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Retail

Rural China is living in the future

Xiaowei Wang, creative director of Logic magazine, examines how the future of work is already alive and kicking in rural China.

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Technology

Stat: Rural America’s digital gap is slowly narrowing

Consumers living in rural America have made significant gains when it comes to internet connectivity over the past decade, with new research showing that the digital gap between rural and urban populations is getting smaller.