Environmental Issues
- Green Pieces
- April 13th, 2009
- For foreigners, Japan seems quite often to be a place of paradoxes. Contradictory values seem to hit us in the nose every time we set foot in a populated, densely packed area. More people means more advertising, and in modern Japan, where the product dictates life and consumer value seems to be the prevailing ideology, » Continue Reading
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- Vending Dream Machines?
- January 26th, 2009
- photo credit: modomatic I guess not having been home for two years brought it on. There I was, wondering the streets of England trying to find my way back home. “Nevermind”, I thought, “I’ll have a hot coffee for the road”. Suddenly, in my dream, I became more frantic about finding a vending machine than » Continue Reading
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