• Recycle those old running shoes

    May 26, 2009

    Aimee Zimmerman Serious runners can go through running shoes as the seasons change. Even casual runners will need to replace their old tired running shoes with newer models someday. And although runners often feel a strange connection to the running shoes that helped them cross the finish line in that last big race, at some […]

  • A Cautionary Video About America’s ‘Stuff’

    May 20, 2009

    The thick-lined drawings of the Earth, a factory and a house, meant to convey the cycle of human consumption, are straightforward and child-friendly. So are the pictures of dark puffs of factory smoke and an outlined skull and crossbones, representing polluting chemicals floating in the air. Which is one reason “The Story of Stuff,” a […]