This fellow claims to have lots of important statistics displayed on a big real-time dashboard. Assuming his data to be accurate (I don't have any reason to dispute it), it's especially interesting to hit the "Now" button to reset this "World Clock," then to watch the numbers grow from zero. …
This article by Alex Williams covers a lot of territory, including: The environmental costs of suburban life, which evolved around the highway system, cheap oil, and the automobile and now typically consumes several times more energy per person (and thus fossil fuels) than urban living. There’s all that driving. There…
Here are the major differences, set forth by Harvey Wasserman of Free Press: As we stumble toward another presidential election, it’s never been more clear that our political process is being warped by a corporate stranglehold on the free flow of information. Amidst a virtual blackout of coverage of a…
This Slate article is from 2005, but the topic is one that desperately needs to be reported accurately. It's about ethanol, and the story is that it takes much more energy to make ethanol than one can get from ethanol. Ethanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol…
You know that life is out of balance. If you are looking for a provocative film that allows you to feel this problem, I have a classic video to recommend. I just saw it tonight for the first time: Koyaanisqatsi. The 1982 film was directed by Godfrey Reggio. Ron Fricke…