George H. W. Bush proclaimed during the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 that the American lifestyle was not up for negotiation. The president of the most resource-greedy country in the world pugnaciously ...

In general, the word conspicuous is an adjective that means attracting attention and standing out, so someone or something is visible. You can also use it to describe something notable, distinguished, ...

I ran across a sweet little paper that will make behavioral ecologists tingle in delight. Not only is this paper based on a really lovely experimental design, but it focuses upon a cute little bird ...

Neal Dikeman is a founding Partner at Jane Capital Partners LLC, advising the technology and venture arms of multi-national energy companies in cleantech. While at Jane Capital, he has cofounded ...

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Buckle up, everyone; this post is going to be a long one. Today, I wanted to discuss the matter of conspicuous consumption: the art of spending relatively large sums of money on luxury goods. When you ...