Escalators are icons of modern ease, but they're dinosaurs when it comes to energy efficiency. Here's a look at some efforts to green these energy hogs....
Let’s not repeat our energy failures when addressing the global population crisis....
While leather goods don’t carry quite the stigma that furs do, perhaps they should, especially when one learns the cost of leather production in terms of human health and environmental damage....
What do the Republican National Convention and rock and roll have in common? Very little, which is why most of the rock concerts in Minneapolis and St. Paul during RNC convention week are renegade events aimed at countering the Republican mania, not fueling it....
African-Americans are in dire need of a more versatile narrative of race, Charles Johnson argues in the American Scholar. Johnson pines for “new and better stories, new concepts and new vocabularies.” Perhaps he should pick up Shawn Taylor’s Big Black Penis: Misadventures in Race and Masculinity….