Reports from Earth

I am very impressed with the super effec­tive activism of the AVAAZ (mean­ing "Voice") cam­paign net­work. They take on var­i­ous crimes that threaten democ­racy, peace or the envi­ron­ment. It is easy to sup­port them — just go to www.AVAAZ.org. Effec­tive […]

31 Octo­ber 2011. Rupert Mur­doch already owns 70 per­cent of Australia’s news­pa­pers. Rupert Mur­doch could secure his stran­gle­hold on the Aus­tralian media by acquir­ing the Aus­tralian pub­lic inter­na­tional TV news net­work — and rob a strug­gling ABC of $223 mil­lion in […]

Elec­tronic vot­ing machines have the poten­tial to destroy any democ­racy quickly and silently. By hand­ing over the power of the peo­ple to the hands of a few cor­po­rate or gov­ern­men­tal insid­ers the poten­tial for fraud is obvi­ously enor­mous. Imag­ine a […]

It has been over four years now that one of the biggest cities in the west­ern world has banned any form of out­door adver­tis­ing: Sao Paulo de Brazil. Bill­boards, out­door video screens and ads on buses and taxis as well […]

With the use of free adblock plu­g­ins in inter­net browsers like Inter­net Explorer, Fire­fox or Google Chrome it has become easy to fight adver­tis­ing — at least on the Inter­net. Think of it, mar­ket­ing, adver­tis­ing, pub­lic rela­tion are mod­ern names […]

Some print­ers sim­ply use ink just to clean their printer heads. This already adds sig­nif­i­cantly to ink con­sump­tion. More­over, the wasted ink accu­mu­lates in the so-called waste car­tridge. NOw, here comes my point: Instead of telling us to empty or clean […]