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Is Travel Doomed?
I’ve been trying to answer this question lately, and it was one of the things that pulled me into the Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference that has been running in Vancouver this week. Well,...
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Corona Shifts the Frame
Shift alert: This is a full back-page Corona beer ad from yesterday’s Globe & Mail newspaper. The image shows the same deck chairs we’ve seen a million times, the same blissed-out vacationing...
View ArticleBreaking: Salon Excerpts Almost Green
The arch online magazine of politics and ideas has just posted an excerpt from Almost Green. The section in question is a bit of a romp — after obsessing over my neighbor’s exterior floodlamps for many...
View ArticleEmma Thompson, “incandescent with rage.”
Here’s a marvelous, hilarious, pump-your-fist gal-on-the-street British news clip starring actor Emma Thompson, best known for her work playing victorians on a number of Merchant Ivory films and...
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Superfast Bullet Trains Are Finally Coming to the U.S.
If you don’t count the various efforts to commercialize aviation biofuel, electrified high-speed rail (HSR) is our best bet when it comes to preserving continental mobility in the post-carbon age....
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A “Grand Tour” of Our Clean-Energy Future
Photograph by Markel Redondo/PANOS Are you as sick of Earth Day stories as I am? Then I implore you to read The New Grand Tour, a long and masterful piece of reporting in The Walrus. Chris Turner,...
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