"The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism"
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"Oil Cash Waning, Venezuelan Shelves Lie Bare"
"CARACAS, Venezuela — Mary Noriega heard there would be chicken."
Source: NY Times, 01/30/2015
"Lower Oil Prices Provide Benefits to U.S. Workers"
"Wall Street may be growing anxious about the negative impact of falling oil prices on energy producers, but the steep declines of recent weeks are delivering substantial benefits to American working-class families and retirees who have largely missed out on the fruits of the five-and-a-half-year economic recovery."
Source: NY Times, 01/19/2015
Arrest of Four Near Hog Farm Tests Utah's "Ag Gag" Law
One way to deal with bad press is to make it illegal. Exposés of inhumane conditions at feedlots and slaughterhouses are being made illegal by state legislatures that pass "ag gag" laws. Now a case in Utah is challenging whether industrial agriculture's claims of secrecy trump the eating public's right to know. Image: Sows in 7'x2' Smithfield Foods gestation crates. By Humane Society of the US [CC], 2010.
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BPA Alternative Disrupts Normal Brain-Cell Growth, Tied To Hyperactivity: Study
"In a groundbreaking study, researchers have shown why a chemical once thought to be a safe alternative to bisphenol-A, which was abandoned by manufacturers of baby bottles and sippy cups after a public outcry, might itself be more harmful than BPA."
Source: Wash Post, 01/13/2015
"New York City To Ban Use Of Plastic Foam Containers"
"New York City will become the largest city in the country to ban restaurants from using plastic foam containers, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday."
Source: Huffington Post, 01/09/2015
Decades of Petrochemical Industry Documents on Hiding Toxicity in Online Archive
The Center for Public Integrity, Columbia University, and City University of New York have just published some 20,000 pages of hitherto unpublished letters, e-mails, presentations, and meeting minutes from the oil and chemical industries in a public database, called "Exposed: Decades of Denial on Poisons."
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Ohio Utilities Seek To Keep Reasons for Public "Bailout" Secret from Public
Three major electric utilities want the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to make ratepayers pay for aging and unprofitable coal and nuclear generation plants in that state. But the ratepayers — the utilities claim — aren't entitled to know whether they might be ripped off.
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"Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity"
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"That Takeout Coffee Cup May Be Messing With Your Hormones"
"A new study suggests that whole classes of BPA-free plastics—including the kind in styrofoam—release estrogenic chemicals."
Source: , 12/02/2014
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