The Monocle Companion: Fifty Ideas for a Better World 

In this issue:

• Why words matter, how to use them more clearly and what taking pictures can teach us all.
  
• Travelling better, how not to be an expat and the importance of friendship in a lonely world.
• The difficulty of doing nothing at all – and getting around it.
• What would happen if children ran our cities and how urban centres might survive the loss of workers.
• Why we need to trash the recycling symbol, go easy on greenwashers (really) and exercise our imagination.
• War and peas: food diplomacy and why it matters, and rethinking how we eat to save the planet.
• How to avoid losing sleep over technology and be in the moment with others.
• The importance of planting seeds and the lessons that gardens can teach us.
• A common-sense manifesto for businesses and entrepreneurship.
• How to rethink society for the better. First question: do we need the nation-state?

Published out of London, Monocle was launched as a magazine briefing on global affairs, business, culture, design and much more in 2007.