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7PM at The Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Millenials are opening stationery stores, and pen pal clubs are on the rise.
Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.
A review of tech and social critic Douglas Rushkoff’s latest book, Team Human.
Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.
In part two of a series on dams, reservoirs and catastrophic failures displace and destroy whole communities and ecosystems.
Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.
With the changes in consumed materials, recycling is running into problems; meanwhile, plastic and overall waste climb.
Jonathan Taplin, former music and film professional, tells first-hand what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators like Google and Facebook has done to the creative arts, journalism, and democracy.
Across the globe, communities are working to preserve existing areas of natural darkness and reduce the spread of light pollution.
Author and endicrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.