The New Green Economy

Wireless communication has certainly become a ubiquitous commodity in modern societies. With the ever-increasing availability of cheap parts and labor coming out of China, it is now commonplace for technology giants like Apple, Motorola, and Sony to design a product, brand it as "American," and then pour out  millions of low-cost units into the mainstream marketplace for mass consumption.

The Materials Economy

The Materials Economy—it has been the driving force behind U.S. economics since the Second World War. The name refers to the raw materials from which its products are made. The marketing and sale of these products is what keeps the Materials Economy in motion, all the while exhausting natural resources and generating incalculable amounts of waste.