David Sirota is right in his judgment of Las Vegas’ unbridled energy consumption in this piece today at Salon.com. Las Vegas is not an escape; it’s a place where people come to practice the same bad habits they always do, just with the volume turned up.
Milton Saier is a professor of biology at the University of California at San Diego. He has also been climbing into dumpsters to retrieve discarded food for the last 30 years. He found a name for his pursuits a few years ago: freeganism.