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Junk Mail Experiment makes for interesting results
I found a really great article on grist yesterday, written by Alan Durning. He’s long been a proponent of cutting junk mail and giving Americans and Canadians a choice to opt out with a Do Not Mail registry (similar to the Do Not Call list we already have). He made an effort to cut his [...]
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The potential of alternative energy: Solar from the Sahara
Searching for alternative energy sources is nothing new. We use energy in enormous quantities; the production and disposal of junk mail in this country alone each year uses more energy than running 3 million cars. What’s new is the latest attempt to tackle the energy crisis: collecting solar energy from the Sahara Desert.
According to Organicjar.com, [...]
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Privacy Round-Up: Myspace, Craigslist and issues of privacy
Myspace lawsuit: It was just over a year ago that we first posted about the Myspace suicide case. Lori Drew, a middle-aged Midwestern mom, allegedly created a fake Myspace account of a teen boy in order to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier, a neighbor girl who took her own life when her online “boyfriend” turned against [...]
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