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Environment

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What Happens in Vegas Does Not Stay in Vegas

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.

Freegan Professor

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.