Shoppers rush into a store as the door opens for the Black Friday sale. Photo credit: By Powhusku from Laramie, WY, USA CC BY-SA 2.0 – via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen Today the frenzy consumerist festival Black Friday officially begins, that to begin with was held on the last Friday of November, and has now grown far beyond this with […]
Photo credit: Earth Overshoot Day. By Anders Lorenzen Earth Overshoot Day is the day of the year when we have already used up all the resources the Earth can generate. It has been happening earlier and earlier each year since the 1970s. This year the day falls on the 2nd of August. It is estimated it would take 1.7 Earths […]