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Could you explain the concept behind "information environmentalism" and what you think about it? Information environmentalism is a term that David Levy, a professor at the University of Washington, has come up with. The idea is that we need to take an active role in deciding what information we're consuming and what it is that needs to stay by the wayside. We can't turn off our computers, nor should we want to. But I do think that we need to take a curatorial attitude toward our information streams and be very realistic about how much time we have...
Americans don't need to use an SUV every time they go to the bathroom. Which helps explain why this spring a mainstream brand, Scott, started offering toilet paper made with 40% recycled fiber. Switching to such material could make a big difference: the NRDC estimates that if every household in the U.S. replaced just one 500-sheet roll of virgin-fiber TP a year with a roll made from 100% recycled paper, nearly 425,000 trees would be saved annually. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...knack for finding the unsung dungeon for dinner helps explain why Steves is the unchallenged Baedeker of his generation: he just works it harder than anyone else does. Over the past three decades, Steves, now 54, has written more than 30 European guidebooks, phrase books and travel companions. Walk from Rome's Campo dei Fiori to the Spanish Steps on any evening this summer and you will spy his blue-and-yellow books under countless arms. Last week, 10 of the 20 best-selling European travel books on Amazon.com had Steves' name on the cover. When he's not updating...
...Market were on display. A Fred Perry shirt hung there, accusingly, in pink. "In countries like Vietnam and Cambodia, very often it's kids involved in the manufacturing," Gautier says. "People think, 'Oh, it's just a T shirt and it's no real harm,' but we try to explain where the money is going. What if a 10-year-old girl is working every day to make those T shirts...
...with Allied forces and fought for more than three months in the farmlands of Normandy. Over the last 25 years, Franklin has been giving talks about his experience. Now that was coming to an end. "This is the end of my military career," he said of the opportunity to explain the scene to world leaders. "I will go home and relax...