Max Gladwell

The revelation that invading and occupying Iraq was driven entirely by oil comes as no surprise to many. There’s seldom any satisfaction in proving someone wrong, especially if it’s someone you respect. It’s a sad and tragic vindication for those of us who tried to reason with our blindly idealistic friends and family that the [...]

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Eco-Libris balances your reading footprint If you’re a tree, you curse the day the printing press was invented. For people, though, it sparked a revolution (some might say a renaissance) in thought and fueled a mass enlightenment that continues to this day. The downside to reading, one might argue, is that it consumes all of [...]

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Colbert calls out McCain on his greenwashing “We need to think of global warming as an invasion of our homeland by heat. All we have to do is build a border fence made out of air conditioners.”  

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The top 10 stories of the week (4/20/2008), as viewed through the Max Gladwell lens 1: Food Shortages: How will we feed the world “Bob Watson, the chief scientist at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, puts the rise in the price of commodity crops such as wheat down to a number [...]

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Images, videos, logos, jokes, and messages from this 38th Annual Earth Day celebration, featuring NASA, YouTube, Obama, StumbleUpon, and more…  

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