SCOTTLONDON.COM is in the throes of a much-needed facelift. The makeover is almost complete. The site has a new look and several important new features. The most obvious change is the addition of more graphic content, including a special section devoted to image galleries and photo essays. I’ve also introduced a guestbook — a much-requested feature that [...]

I have just seen the manuscript of a forthcoming collection of interviews with Terry Tempest Williams. Among the dialogues in the book is an interview I conducted with her ten years ago entitled The Politics of Place. The collection also features interviews by Derrick Jensen, Michael Toms, David Kupfer, and Aria Seligmann, among others. Editor Michael [...]

A fascinating and disturbing article in today’s New York Times examines how the Chinese have displayed “an American-style passion for the automobile.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the city of Shanghai, writes reporter Howard French. “For Shanghai, as for much of China, getting rich and growing attached to cars have increasingly gone hand [...]