Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s proposal to slash state spending by eliminating a self-funding magazine published by the state’s Department of Natural Resources is provoking calls of bullshit from former agency… Read more »

Given that discussion of climate change has been strangely absent from the presidential campaign, now seems a better time than ever for Michael Bloomberg to announce he’s at work on… Read more »

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman will be returning to Morton County, North Dakota next week to fight a criminal trespassing charge stemming from her report on protests against the construction of the Dakota Access… Read more »

As a lover of printed matter and tactics of protest, it is with interest that I read the news of a massive demonstration this past Saturday in Qidong, an eastern… Read more »

Considering that we skipped right over winter this year in New York, everyone seems to be talking about climate change lately: “Can you believe this weather? Thanks, global warming!” But… Read more »

In the introduction to Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), Postman relates our society to that of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World,… Read more »

“An Israeli researcher says a source for studying the Earth’s pollution history has been discovered in books — not what is written there, but the paper itself,” according to a… Read more »

Texas, home of the oil oligarchs, I mean, oil cartels, no, I mean, oil barons. Anyway — guess where the first electric car charging station is being built in the… 2 / Read more »

The New York Times does a little side-by-side comparison here, of the ecological efficiencies of books versus e-books, using, “life-cycle assessment, which evaluates the ecological impact of any product, at… 2 / Read more »

“If you thought you were saving forests and protecting the environment by going paperless…think again.” Over at PBS Mediashift, Don Carli covers the ever-persistent concern of using digital media to… Read more »