Archive for the ‘consumerism’ Category
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
I was out at the Southern Festival of Books last weekend, and came across a problem that I hadn't encountered before. A book collector bought up a large amount of the stock and so some people were unable to get copies at the festival. While it's nice to see ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
I give an interview over at EcoGeek.org where I display all of my tact and verbal discipline (LOL) to talk about green technologies and my jaundiced views of the future. A sample bit:
As environmental ideas have entered the zeigeist, mostly thanks to global warming--and still mostly focused on ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Here's my take on writing optimistic SF-- just don't make it consolatory pap. That's what advertising, TV and suburban sprawl are supposed to sell.
As an example, here's the latest on the global warming front. (note: the link is changed to point directly to the Washington Post article as ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
My wife and I have the option of moving into bigger, more spacious, more sunny, more land, and more pretty much of everything, house.
The downside is that it's also more mortgage, more responsibility, and it exists two miles out of town... basically in that no-man's land called ex-urban sprawl. ...
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