The suicides at Foxconn have highlighted the issue of highly stressful working conditions in the global electronics industry. Foxconn has responded with psychologists, punch bags, swimming pools, and asking employees to promise not to kill...
"This Full Moon in Sagittarius encourages us to expand -- our minds, our vision, our faith, our perception" —@astrogrrl
The Gulf Oil Spill has been troubling me no end. Sitting here in California, it's raining, and...
It's May (well for a few more days at least) and in California, that means strawberries. When we drove to Monterey a few weeks ago, we could see strawberry fields stretching across the terrain, red,...
Crossposted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
For pastoralist communities like the well-known Maasai in Kenya, livestock keeping is more than just an important source of food and income; it’s a way of life that has...
It has to be said…and this may be controversial…
Eating at McDonalds in a foreign country does NOT make you a despicable traveler.
In all honestly – up until I took my career break and traveled around...
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer of electronics products for Apple and many others, has reported 9 suicides among its workforce and is fighting allegations of being a sweatshop. It’s not the only tech company with a...
Danielle Nierenberg is blogging everyday from across Africa for the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog. She is also writing with her partner Bernard Pollack at her personal blog: BorderJumpers.
As we talked to locals in...
When I first heard about Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile, a paper in which researchers at the University of Washington and UCSD explored the what someone could do to the computers in your...
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