The start of the information age about a quarter of a century ago was bound up with the hope that modern information and communication technology (ICT) would at last make possible the decoupling of economic growth and resource consumption. Yet the result today is still ambivalent.More ...
In fact, however, we should all be asking how much a T-shirt costs. The "ecological rucksack" model shows just how many kilograms of energy and natural resources go into producing one kilogram of basic material. More ...
