Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carpet, earth, ecology, festival, films, green, Hatoyama, Hollywood, movies, posters, Roppongi, Tokyo on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 22th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is being held in Roppongi Hills from October 17-25, 2009. This year’s theme is the same as last year, with the focus on the environment and ecology – “Action for Earth”.
The festival opened Saturday, October 17, 2008 in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. The newly elected Japan Prime Minister [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dell J&J, environment, green, HP, IBM, Intel, Newsweek, rank, US on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About two weeks ago, Newsweek published its inaugural list of the top 500 greenest companies in the US. The top 10 are:
Hewlett-Packard
Dell
Johnson & Johnson
Intel
IBM
State Street
Nike
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Applied Materials
Starbucks
4 of the top 5 are technology companies (HP, Dell, Intel and IBM). For IBM, Newsweek wrote:
“Has had formal environmental policies since 1971. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30, anniversary, green, Gundam, Japan, mecca, Odaiba, park, robot, RX-78-2, Tokyo on July 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »
A life size model of the Gundam robot stands near the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo, on the man-made peninsula of Odaiba.
With white limbs and a blue, yellow and red torso, the giant robot is based on the original RX-78-2 series model, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Made of fiberglass and steel, the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cola Shiso, drink, green, herbal, Japan, leaf, Pepsi, perilla on June 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Japan is certainly an interesting place to live. For example, you will find many different and unique types of flavorings in various food products such as chocolates (Kit Kat), potato chips, snacks and drinks.
With fellow Japan bloggers TokyoFive and BusanKevin (also others listed recently in JapanProbe) trying out the new Pepsi Shiso (just available only [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environment, global warming, globalization, green, oil, Thomas Friedman on June 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just finished reading the book titled “Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas Friedman, 3 time Pulitzer Prize winning writer from the New York Times. Hot, Flat and Crowded means the convergence of three forces: Global warming, Globalization (which was the topic of his last bestselling book, “The World is Flat”) and Global population growth.
Friedman believes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carpet, earth, ecology, festival, films, green, movies, Roppongi, Shibuya, Tokyo, Toyota on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The 21th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is being held in Roppongi Hills and Bunkamura (Shibuya) from October 18-26, 2008.
This year’s theme is ecology stressing the importance of preserving the global environment, with the tagline “Ecology = Preservation of Earth’s Environment“. The green carpet was made from recycled plastic bottles, which replaced the traditional red [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged car, data-center, environment, gas, green, IBM, project-big-green on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The recent news about rising (skyrocketing?) oil and gas prices has reminded me that now living in Japan, we do not have a car and use Japan’s efficient subway and train system, along with our two legs to get around Tokyo and its surrounding areas – our little contribution to saving the planet and our [...]
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