The complete online text of Waste by Harley Granville-Barker.

Harley Granville Barker ranks with George Bernard Shaw and John Galsworthy as one of the leading playwrights of the naturalistic social drama in Edwardian England. His creativity as a dramatist reached its peak before World War I, which marked the turnin...

Yvor Winters once remarked that "poetry is not a career. One will make one's living elsewhere." But the prolific writer George Barker has defied that notion for the past fifty years, aspiring toward the life of the true poet. Barker has traveled from con...

Boston, which has been approaching its trash disposal problems at a leisurely pace, can learn from the conspicuous success achieved by the Springfield Materials Recycling Facility, which has reached the point of paying for itself through sales of paper, glass and metals that might...

Separate recycling bins outside houses are becoming the norm, yet take-up - the actual separating out of the recyclable material from the rubbish - is still too low, according to government figures. And that is when it is made easy for consumers with all...

Before you go to bed on the last Saturday in October, there’s one last thing you need to do. Set your alarm clock back one hour. And the clocks on your stove and microwave. Oh, and the one on your TiVo or VCR. Don’t forget...

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