A growing movement of scientists, students, farmers and forward-thinking business people are all saying Wait a minute! In fact, even the economists who invented the cap and trade system to deal with simpler problems like fertilizer pollution and sulf...
I am so glad that the world is finally getting together to stop climate change. When I first heard that our leaders were meeting to talk about solutions, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Didnt you? Then I said, wait a minute, what exactly are they p...
So, you are on the Internet using a web browser. You know that thing with the address bar, and back button, and bookmarks. That thing you are in right now, up there, yeah, that's your web browser. If you like me when youre on your own computer, you s...
Our computer files arent like they used to be. These days a short HD video can be over a gigabyte in size. That's huge. The problem is that the bigger they are, the harder they are to share. Thankfully, we have options that make sharing big files ove...
In the U.S., we spend three to four times as many hours shopping as our counterparts in Europe do. So were in this ridiculous situation where we go to work, maybe two jobs even, and we come home when were exhausted, so we plop down on our new couch a...
President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers chairman said that The American economy's ultimate purpose is to produce more consumer goods. More consumer goods? Our ultimate purpose? Not provide healthcare, education, or safe transportation, or...
Well, it moves here, for distribution. Now distribution means selling all the toxic-contaminated junk as quickly as possible. The goal here is to keep the prices down, keep the people buying and keep the inventory moving. How do they keep the prices...
So next, the materials move to production. And what happens there is we use energy to mix toxic chemicals in with natural resources to make toxic contaminated products. There are over 100,000 synthetic chemicals in use in commerce today. Only a handf...
Do you have one of these? I get a little obsessed with mine. In fact, I get a little obsessed with all my stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from where it goes when we throw it out? I couldn't stop wondering about that. So...
Wikipedia is one of the most important websites on the Internet today, but you might be surprised to learn that it began as a side project of another online encyclopedia. That was called Nupedia, to be a traditional encyclopedia written by experts, f...
