Podcast #32: Josh Golin on Marketing to Kids

Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.

By Mo Lotman | June 19, 2019 | Advertising, Community, Culture, Education, Ethics, Family, Law, Media, Podcasts, Privacy, Psychology | Activism, Advertising, Alexa, Amazon, Baby Einstein, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Children, Citizenship, Commercials, Community, Consumerism, Critical Thinking, Digital Nanny, Disney, Echo Dot for Kids, Ed-Tech, Edward Markey, Environment, Fast Food, Hello Barbie, Internet, iPads, Josh Hawley, Marketing, Mattel, Movement Building, Obesity, Pornography, Schools, Scree-Free Week, Screen Time Action Network, Screens, Smartphones, surveillance, Technology in Schools, TV, Violence, YouTube

Print Preview: Issue #3 | Summer 2019

Our third print issue is about to ship nationally.

By Mo Lotman | June 7, 2019 | Community, Economics, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Relationships, Review, Society | Activism, Addiction, Automobiles, Capitalism, Distraction, National Parks, Nature, Ralph Nader, Smartphones, surveillance

Podcast #21: Betsy Brunner on Circumventing Censorship

Betsy Brunner of Idaho State examines social media and social movements, particularly in China, where she’s looked at the creative ways people get around the limits of surveillance and censorship.

By Mo Lotman | October 22, 2018 | Culture, Government, Human Rights, Media, Podcasts, Policing, Privacy, Society | Activism, Censors, Censorship, China, Creativity, Dystopia, Images, Language, Memes, Obfuscation, Protest, surveillance

Portland Becomes First US City to Stop Fossil Fuel Expansion

Responding to powerful grass-roots activism, Portland’s government passed a law, recently upheld by the Oregon Court of Appeals, to arrest further construction or expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in the city.

By Kevon Paynter | March 7, 2018 | Community, Environment, Government, Health, Law | 350.org, Activism, California, Carbon Dioxide, Chevron, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Climate March, Energy, Environmentalism, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Idaho, Kayaktivism, Natural Gas, Oil, Oregon, Pipelines, Political Action, Portland, Propane, Renewable Energy, Shell, Washington, Willamette River

Interview: Ethan Hughes of The Possibility Alliance, part two

In the first part of this interview, Ethan Hughes talked with The Technoskeptic about events that led to the founding [...]

By Mo Lotman | June 15, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Family, Human Rights, Society, Well-Being | Activism, Agriculture, Anger, Bacha Kahn, Gift Economy, Health Care, Martin Luther King, Missouri, Off-the-grid, Oil, PEACH, Permaculture, Pyrenees, Service, Still Waters Sanctuary, Sustainability, The Possibility Alliance

Interview: Ethan Hughes of The Possibility Alliance, part one

There are brilliant writers and thinkers who are questioning technological progress from a philosophical perspective, others who raise alarms about [...]

By Mo Lotman | June 8, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Family, Human Rights, Society, Well-Being | Activism, Agriculture, Be the Change, Cycling, Ecuador, Gift Economy, Loving Earth Sanctuary, Missouri, Off-the-grid, Oil, Permaculture, Service, Still Waters Sanctuary, Sustainability, The Amazon, The Possibility Alliance