Michael Dudley

<p>The vast majority of the world's e-waste is processed in China, in towns like Guiyu.</p>

<p>Google's new ground-level imaging feature, "Street View", is not just perfect "blog fodder": it's raising serious questions about the nature of privacy and public spaces.</p>

<p>The troubling ratio of mortgage debt to housing value is going to pose a problem for millions of baby boomers, who are set to retire with almost no equity, according to Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.</p>

<p>While the federal government resists taking action on climate change, municipalities are implementing their own plans and guidelines to reduce energy consumption and the production of greenhouse gases.</p>

<p>Quebec will be the first province in Canada to impose a carbon tax, which will be used to fund public transit and other green energy initiatives.</p>