Oil companies say that demand will never be the same and that refinery cutbacks are necessary to boost sagging profits. Meanwhile, more cash-strapped shoppers are looking to save money and time shopping online. What do these seemingly separate trends have to do with one another? A lot more than you might think. Learn why e-commerce may contribute to increasing fuel prices, inflation and a retail landscape of tomorrow that hardly resembles anything we know today.
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The Buzz About Bees
As if we needed to add to the strain of the already-perplexing Colony Collapse Disorder that continues its silent kill of European honeybees worldwide, a late-year news item from Bloomberg portrays a New York judge taking a delinquent EPA to task for turning a blind eye of approval toward Bayer's latest bee killer, environmental advocates say. Why care? Because those honeybees pollinate our crops. So the honeybee goes, so the human population goes. Do we really need another bug spray — another nail in our own coffin? It's time we got schooled in the art of smart consumerism. It's a new year, a new decade, and it's not too late. Self empowerment, anyone?
GreenSmart vs. GreenDumb
If you assume that replacing books, magazines and newspapers with Kindle and the Internet are eco-friendly tradeoffs, think again. Carbon footprints don't tell all.