A note from the editor Vanessa Byrne / Managing Director
Every edition of OTWO begins with a simple question: what does a more sustainable life look like when we move beyond ambition and into the reality of everyday choices?
Reading this issue, I found myself returning to another question: what happens when we change the way we look at the world?
It is a question at the heart of Delta City, where the same fictional urban network is viewed through different measures of mobility, structure and emissions. Nothing in the city changes, yet the story does. What becomes important depends on what we choose to notice. Sustainability, too, requires us to look beyond the most obvious picture. That idea runs throughout this edition. In Gibraltar, Gib Flow explores how technology can make everyday movement simpler while encouraging walking, cycling and public transport. Our feature on Gibraltar’ s seagrass meadows takes us beneath the surface to an ecosystem that can easily go unseen, yet plays an important role in the health of our marine environment. The lesson is similar: what we fail to notice can still be fundamental to how a system works.
Elsewhere, we look at the built environment through AMA Group’ s work, explore the complexities behind packaging choices, and consider the small but meaningful changes that can form part of a more sustainable lifestyle.
Our feature on physical activity reminds us that sustainability is not only about the planet around us. It is also about creating healthier, more accessible ways of living within our communities. Walking, cycling, moving more and connecting with the places around us can benefit both people and the environment.
Our cultural pages ask us to imagine differently. Amitav Ghosh questions why the climate crisis remains so difficult to represent in our cultural imagination, while Bruno Latour challenges the traditional separation between nature and society.
These ideas connect naturally with our wider exploration of nature, energy, materials, cities and travel. Sustainability does not belong to one discipline. It lives in the spaces between science, technology, culture, design, health and everyday life.
That is why OTWO continues to tell environmental stories from different perspectives. Facts matter, but so do the stories that help those facts become meaningful. We need information, but we also need imagination; the ability to see connections, consider alternatives and recognise possibilities.
Perhaps that is what I hope you take from this edition.
Sustainability is not one technology, one policy, one lifestyle or one perfect solution. It is a way of paying attention.
It asks us to notice the meadow beneath the water, the journey we make across town, the materials we buy, the energy our buildings use, the health of our bodies and the systems that connect all of these things. We cannot care for what we refuse to see. So, as we enter another autumn, let us look a little more closely. Let us ask better questions, remain curious and recognise the connections between our choices and the world they shape.
Because a better world does not begin somewhere else. It begins with how we choose to see this one.
Peace and love always
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