'Environment' Category
The Case Against Shell
by James in Environment on May 28th, 2009
Disgusting. Unethical. After all this is big business.
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
by James in Environment, Food, General on May 22nd, 2008
“Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.” is the advice given by Michael Pollan in his book “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto“. Having devoured the book in less than a week I think I couldn’t agree more.
A large portion of the book covers the flaws and mistakes in nutritionalism. That is eating [...]
新宿御苑、エコ教育みたい、Shinjuku Imperial Garden、Eco Education
by James in Environment, General, Japan, Travel on May 3rd, 2008
Tuesday marked the first day of golden week, a period in Japan where there are a bunch of national holidays back to back in which most people get a good solid 5 days off from work. It’s like a national spring break.
Most people travel around Japan and it is one of Japan’s big travel [...]
Happy Earth Day!
by James in Environment, General, Japan, Travel on April 20th, 2008
Happy Earth Day! I was going to write a large post on the environment for this post but going out into Shibuya/Yoyogi today completely drained me.
Today though in Yoyogi Park there was a huge Earth Day celebration. This year the theme was “Shift Green”. Unfortunately I arrived too late to see any of the [...]
Train them while they are young
by James in Environment, General, Japan on March 5th, 2008
As a child some of my favuorite books were those of Dr. Seuss’. I hadn’t realized until expressed by a professor in Economic Geography about a year ago that social undertones in children’s can effect the norm by the time we reach adulthood.
His example was Dr. Susses with the book titled “The Lorax”. The [...]
It’s time for something new
by James in Environment, General on January 2nd, 2008
When I look back on the idealizations of the past, there is always something interesting about the 1970’s. There are a lot of parallels between the 70’s and the recent years past: namely a war against an ideology, a new interest in environmentalism, and high gas prices.
What interests me about this is from that [...]
