Greening the Media

How media technology contributes to the global ecological crisis.

Richard Maxwell, Ph.D. and Toby Miller, Ph.D.

On Deflection in Health and Ecological Crises

Decades of deflection campaigns have blamed consumers for global warming, pollution, lung cancer, and other ills to hide corporate responsibility and stifle systemic solutions.

Is This the End of Our Second Long National Disaster?

Vaccines are on the way. But as hope crests, so do fatalities and infections. Now is the time to plan for a better world where this cannot recur. Let's start with the environment.

Dispossessed, Discarded, Repaired

Inspired by the right to repair movement, we should extend the ethic of repair to mend the lives of poor and working-class Americans.

The Year of the Mask

Will this year of the mask ever come to an end? And what should the future hold?

The Rich Are Different. Their Wealth Is a Climate Disaster.

The richest 10% of people worldwide produce half of all global carbon emissions. The poorest produce a trivial amount but suffer the most.

A New Beginning? Black Lives Matter and the Pandemic

We are beset by crises that rock our very foundations, from violence to the pandemic. But there is hope for real change.

Is Television Culture Making the Pandemic Worse?

Television culture presents a world of pre-pandemic happiness that encourages the fantasy that everything is alright. At the heart of this hallucination is commercial advertising.

Hoping for Solidarity

In a time of fracture, chaos, and loss of confidence, we have resources of hope. They come from a literary heritage of togetherness that spans the Americas and can inspire us today.

No Justice, No Peace: On Pandemics, Race, and Environment

The fight for racial justice is fundamental to the struggle for economic and environmental justice. Don't let media and political leaders try to compartmentalize them.

After the Horror

Life after COVID-19: Do we accept the world we had before or build a new one together? What examples do we have from history to prepare and guide us?

Flat-Curvers vs. a Fat-Curve System: The Fight for the Future

Flattening the curve provides the needed social contract to fight climate and global health crises. It might also save our health care system and help transform our failed media.

We Rely on the Natural World to Understand Ourselves

For centuries, understanding nature has been crucial to understanding ourselves.

We Need Green Digital Public Infrastructure

Do you prefer humans or chat robots handling queries about your bills, health, and banking? Most of us pick humans, but businesses like the profits they get from replacing people.

We Are All Australians Now

Fires in Australia have provoked powerful emotions from human and animal residents, commentators, and scientists alike. We need deal with these feelings.

The Fossil Fuel Industry’s War Against Nature and Democracy

Words like "climate emergency," "climate strike," "existential," and "crisis climática" are surging in usage. Why aren't world leaders listening?

Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

Lake Erie just became a person, with the same legal standing as a human or corporation. What will that mean for our national attachment to the agricultural runoff that pollutes it?

Speaking of Ecosystems: What’s Business Got to Do with It?

High-tech business ecosystems are said to work like biological ecosystems. They don't. In fact, the record shows that they harm real ecosystems.

Why Are So Many Adults So Frightened Of Greta Thunberg?

Why is Greta Thunberg receiving such critique and admiration? How does it relate to her Asperger's Syndrome?

Why Consumers Should Worry about Trump’s Trade War

Supply chains have been rattled by the trade war between China and the U.S. Consumers will learn a hard lesson about the global economy when the conflict hits their pocketbooks.

Children, Climate Change, and the House on Fire

For decades, children have been regarded as adults-in-waiting, as potential problems and benefits to society. What should we make of their climate activism?

Confused Customers and Bad Weather Ahead

Did you know that we're in a "race to 5G" mobile communication? Behind exaggerated claims and confusing advertising, the actual plans for the "race to 5G" have alarmed scientists.

From Measles to Media: Our Populist Crisis

Why are we experiencing a frightening measles outbreak? Is populism to blame?

The Amazon Effect: A Packaging Boom—and Waste

Can't wait to get your deliveries, but don't want to deal with boxes and packing materials? It's time to do your part to close the recycling loop.

Can You Live Without Your Smartphone?

Can't leave home without your phone? Worried by the amount of time you spend staring at it versus speaking to people, taking a stroll, or closing your eyes?

Smartphones Are Part of a Global E-Waste Problem

Our smartphones can be made greener by keeping them longer—and keeping them out of illegal waste flows.

Greenbacks Need a Green Economy To Decrease Climate Anxiety

What does the Federal Reserve have to do with communication? How does it connect to climate change and our anxieties? All will be revealed...

Are Smartphones Killing the Planet?

If the future is going to be electric, digital technologies must be made more energy efficient—or there won't be much of a future at all.

Is Television Dying?

Have you left cable behind? Is TV finished? Do you use your phone to watch the Super Bowl? Or are you one of the millions of American who do not behave as pundits blithely assume?

Radiation Causes Cancer in Rats. What About Humans?

The latest review of a study conducted by the National Toxicology Program finds that cellphone radiation causes cancer in rats. Why didn't this big scientific news make headlines?

Global Warming and Suicide

With the country heating up, are more people driven to take their own lives? New research suggests this may be the case.

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