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Back to the Land, Now and Then

Posted in commerce, environment, food, periodicals, technology, tagged , , , , , on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

To the chronically tired, While I may be lazy in my scholarship, let it never be said I’m a stranger to physical labor. On Monday, I started volunteering one morning a week at a local farm here in Northampton. As promised, the work was not glamorous—weeding, weeding, and more weeding—but it was surprisingly satisfying. As [...]

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Card Catalogs and the Environment, Conserved

Posted in books, cartoons, environment, libraries, visual culture, tagged , on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear last-minutes-before-class loiterers, Like some of you, I’m just old enough to remember the days of ye olde card catalog—when finding a book required more than a quick Google search. No, the dedicated researcher pulled out drawer after wooden drawer—even stacked them in a dangerous Jenga-like tower—and then flipped endlessly to find the perfect book [...]

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