Huffington Post, November 13, 2013 Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has received positive press in recent years for its promises to go green. The company began issuing an annual Global Responsibility Report in 2005. It announced plans to slash emissions in its supply chain in 2010. The company pledged this year to expand the use of … Read More
Ars Technica, November 8, 2013 Los Angeles wants to bring fiber-based broadband to all of its residents and businesses and build a citywide Wi-Fi network at the same time. The best part for LA is that the buildout won’t cost the city a dime. Free broadband for all, and gigabit for those who can afford it. … Read More
Bookselling This Week, October 31, 2013 The American Booksellers Association has joined with six other organizations to launch Advocates for Independent Business (AIB), a coalition of trade associations and other groups dedicated to ensuring that locally owned, independent businesses succeed and thrive. ABA co-founded the coalition together with the American Independent Business Alliance, American Specialty Toy Retailing … Read More
BBC News Magazine, October 27, 2013 Home broadband in the US costs far more than elsewhere. At high speeds, it costs nearly three times as much as in the UK and France, and more than five times as much as in South Korea. Why? Men’s haircuts, loaves of bread… it is surprising how much more expensive … Read More
Brattleboro Reformer, October 17, 2013 A study just released by the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, revealed that $1 burger you just purchased at your local fast-food drive-up window actually cost you a little bit more than $1. Between 2007 and 2011, nearly $7 billion a year … Read More
BillMoyers.com, October 11, 2013 This article first appeared at YES! Magazine. Chokwe Lumumba was an unlikely candidate for high office in Mississippi. But last June, the former black nationalist and onetime attorney to Tupac Shakur was elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. He’s now in hot pursuit, not of big box stores or the next silver bullet … Read More
The New York Times, October 8, 2013 LONDON — For nearly a century, wealthy countries have relied on just one model of power distribution: sending electricity over huge transmission grids from big generating plants to customers in their homes, offices and factories. That may be starting to change. Renewable-energy technologies like solar and wind power, which … Read More
StateTech, October 1, 2013 In 2012, StateTech editors compiled a list of IT blogs, and it has been one of our most popular pages for over a year. While it offered variety and substance, we decided to crowdsource submissions for the 2013 version. When we asked the StateTech community to help us create a useful resource … Read More
Architectural Record, October 1, 2013 On a recent evening, Dan Rose, the 32-year-old co-owner of the newly opened Flying Squirrel restaurant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, sat at the packed bar, sketching ideas for his next project, with architect Thomas Palmer, a graduate of Auburn University and its Rural Studio program. Rose is quintessential new-Chattanooga, a walking symbol … Read More
