Dante Magazine DANTE Aug-Sep 2016 Back Issue

DANTE is not just for the future of individuals but for the world too.
Such as how healthy our planet is and how to extend its life.
Regular readers will know that we do occasional special issues and this one is returning to ethical and environmental matters.
As ever, we are independent and print articles in order to encourage debate - all our writers’ views are their own.
We had great fun with the cover. Our subject was the story about the Venice Architecture Biennale, which has gone green this year and proposes ways to improve the biosphere and our lives with new buildings.
Our starting point was the Biennale’s own poster with its eye-catching photo of a mystery woman on a ladder overlooking a flat landscape - we can actually reveal she is German archaeologist Maria Reiche, surveying the mysterious Nazca Lines in the hot Peruvian desert, photographed by Bruce Chatwin.
Since the Biennale makes a play on saving Antarctica, it seemed only right to contrast her with a snowy penguin and a Lombardy tower block cloaked in green with a Queensland koala plonked on the top for extra surrealism, though we also loved a Greenpeace-provided photo of Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi performing his Elegy for the Arctic on a floating platform in front of melting ice floes.
DANTE continues to try to be the first reporting stories – ones you will only read about elsewhere maybe months later.
So we hear from two London women who approached us first with the story of their incredible journey, travelling 10,000 miles from London to Hong Kong on bicycles. Yes, that’s right, on pushbikes, and all to raise awareness about wasted food. It is a remarkable account.