AltWeeklies Wire
You've Got No Mailnew
The corporate hit job on the US Postal Service continues wit the end of Saturday mail.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
02-15-2013 |
Commentary
Tags: US Postal Service, Saturday mail
Reboot America: A Lesson from Post-Consumerist Cubanew
It sucks that it took a depression to get us here, but historians might just look back on this depression as the event that saved the ecosystem just when we were on the brink of flopping over a climatic tipping point.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
03-13-2009 |
Commentary
From Haiti to Laos, People Are Starvingnew
Our food production and distribution networks are intertwined with mindboggling complexity. People across the world are all showing up hungry at the same global supermarket and bidding against each other for what's left on half-stocked shelves, or locked up in overstocked back rooms. But the playing field isn't level.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
05-12-2008 |
Food+Drink
Shopping at the End of the Worldnew
This year's Black Friday shop-a-thon bested last year's sales numbers by more than eight percent. This might seem weird, given the collapse of the dollar, the epidemic of mortgage foreclosures, the expanding pension and healthcare crisis, peak-oil-induced soaring energy costs and the overall meltdown of the economy.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
11-30-2007 |
Commentary
Global Warming Is Just a Symptomnew
If we're seriously pro-life and want to see the planet survive, we need to get a handle on the population explosion -- that's what is ultimately at the center of our unfolding environmental catastrophe.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
05-04-2007 |
Commentary
Why Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Looming Energy Crisisnew
Going the nuclear route might keep our air conditioners running for a few more years, but if there's a surefire route to really blowing it and rendering the planet absolutely uninhabitable, this is it.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
04-13-2007 |
Commentary
My Shopping Orgynew
I've written too many of what are basically the same Buy Nothing Day article -- so this year I set out to do some ethnographic fieldwork, immersing myself in the heart of the beast.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
12-22-2006 |
Commentary
