Redefining ‘Sustainable Fashion’

That’s before you begin trying to wade through the acronyms and abbreviations; aside from the above, there are GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) and C.C.S. (carbon capture and storage) and N.F.F.O. (non-fossil fuel obligation) and T.P.H. (total petroleum hydrocarbons). To name a few. We need a better way to frame the discussion. So we are…

Desde Rusia con amor… y dolor

En los dos primeros meses leí los 15 libros que llevé a Rusia en mi maleta y habría saboreado cada página si hubiera sabido que apenas había libros en inglés y que el acceso a internet en nuestro edificio era esporádico. Al principio me obligaba a salir de la cama cada mañana para moverme por…

Meet the New Old Book Collectors

Late last month, during the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, Rebecca Romney withdrew a copy of “Howl, Kaddish, and Other Poems,” by Allen Ginsberg from her booth’s display case. She did so not to recite from its pages but to show off the writing in the margins. Amy Winehouse…

How Space Tourism Is Skyrocketing

Sales in the space tourism space, Mr. Curran acknowledges, “are reasonably difficult to make,” and mostly come from peer-to-peer networking. “You can imagine that people who spend $450,000 to go to space probably operate in circles that are not the same as yours and mine,” he said. Some of Mr. Curran’s most popular offerings include…