Unbearable Costs + Consequences of Consumerism

This week a friend sent me the link to a new online film by an expert on the materials economy and it took me a few days to click on it. I finally did because I wanted to clean up my email in-box, nothing more noble. Now I want to clean up my […]

Fluorescent lighting to save the world?

The British government has announced it is phasing out incandescent light bulbs by 2011 in favor of largely fluorescent energy saving tubes.  While these tubes save 75% of the energy used by standard bulbs and thus greatly reduce the greenhouse gas effects of electricity usage this is not the only environmental or health issue to […]