Magazine
Guides to the alternatives, and essays on living with less harm. Guides show when we last checked them; essays are dated when they were written.
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Can Small-Scale Farming Feed the World?
In the 1970s, environmentalists and politicians in the imperial core quivered in their seats at the prospect of a population explosion. Malthusian prophecies of total collapse and Thanos-esque…
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Amazon Alternatives Guide: 2022 Update
Why would anyone want to avoid Amazon? A one-stop-shop for everything from books to clothes to pillows featuring Nicolas Cage’s face photoshopped onto Kim Jong Un’s head, it…
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Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
Along the banks of the Mississippi River, right before it spills out past New Orleans into the sea, lies Cancer Alley: an 85-mile strip of shoreline where residents…
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The True Cost of Cryptocurrency
Amidst the loud hum of computers, digital gold is born. Churning and churning, hundreds of computers mine for a new form of currency – one that professes to…
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Ethical Alternatives to Basecamp
Basecamp made the news in April 2021 following the decision to forbid “societal and political discussions” internally – one of many changes which led to over a third…
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Podcasts on Topics Shaping Our World
In a sea of podcasts, some produce solid, useful information in a world often brimming with distractions from what really matters. The podcast format brings storytelling in an…
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We had electric cars in 1900… Then this happened
Tearing through the crowded streets of Philadelphia, an electric car and a gas-powered car sought to win a heated race. One that mimicked cars’ actual use: they had…
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Arne Næss: Good living according to deep ecology
These days, we have the option to offset our carbon, recycle our waste, buy ethically, and build sustainably. At least in theory. But consumerist society is adapting to…
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Planned obsolescence sucks. Here’s why it still exists
In December of 1924, the heads of all the major lightbulb manufacturers across the world met in Geneva to concoct a sinister plan. Their talks outlined limits on…
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Are Vinyl Records Sustainable?
There was a time when spinning records was the only way to listen to music of your choice at home. Subsequently, for a few decades, vinyl records had…