Tag: Japan - Page 11
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Japanese Designer Grows Chandelier Out Of Crystal
We've covered Tokujin Yoshioka's clever furniture before, and now the Japanese designer has unveiled yet another 'slow furniture' piece in anticipation for this year's upcoming Milan Furniture Fair in April. His latest creation is a living chandelier -
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Greenpeace Blocks Ship Loaded with Fin Whale Meat Heading for Japan
This morning, Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a cargo ship in the Dutch port of Rotterdam in an effort to block the export of whale meat from Iceland to Japan. The
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6.4 Gigawatts More Solar Power Installed Last Year - Germany Still Leads, US in Fourth
Despite difficult financial circumstances, the global solar industry added additional capacity of 6.4 gigawatts in 2009, according to a new assessment by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association. That
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Mazda Signs Deal to License Toyota's Hybrid Powertrain Technology
Images: Toyota and Mazda Prius Inside? Well, it looks like the partnership between Ford and Mazda is further eroding. In 2008, Ford sold a 20% stake in Mazda (keeping 13.4%) and lost control of the company. Now Mazda is signing a deal with Toyota
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CITES Votes No on Bluefin Tuna Ban: Japanese Embassy Serves the Endangered Delicacy at a Pre-Convention Reception
Even though the World Wildlife Fund recently warned that Atlantic bluefin tuna will be wiped out completely by 2012 if we don't halt the overfishing of it, we still can't seem to protect the species. By some accounts, eating the
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The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World Looks Like from an E-Bike (video)
Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage
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Japan and China Help Defeat Shark Conservation Proposal at UN Meeting
China, Japan, Russia and a handful of other countries are at the heart of a defeat of a proposal that would have benefited sharks by requiring increased transparency in the shark trade. Finning - the practice of
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Japan Wants World's Largest Woodchip Exporter to Sell FSC Certified Product
It takes time, sometimes decades, but people power can turn around seemingly unstoppable juggernauts. That seems to be what is happening with regard to Tasmania's old growth forests. For decades environmentalists have
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Japan Arrests Sea Shepherd Activist After Boarding Ship, Trying to Deliver Bill for Sunken Ship
I admit I'm sympathetic to Sea Shepherd's cause, but this all is just getting weirder and weirder: The latest is that the Japanese Coast Guard has arrested the captain of the
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EU Says It Will Back Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban - And Then There Was Japan...
The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna, and now the European Union nations will do so as well, with Malta being the only dissenting vote. That still leaves us
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Mitsubishi Hopes To Profit From Bluefin Tuna Decline
It's no secret that the world population of bluefin tuna is declining rapidly. The scientific and conservation communities have been calling for an international trade ban for years and Mathew told us last year about a report stating that Atlantic
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Manatee Cousins in Mideast Face Uncertain Future
It must have required many lonely months out to sea to mistake this face only a mother could love for that of a fair maiden, but encounters with dugongs are indeed said to have
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Barneys "Go Green Go(es)" to Tokyo with British Model-Turned-Designer Agyness Deyn
British model Agyness Deyn with her preferred mode of transportation. Credit: David Vasiljevic, Vogue Barneys' environmental campaign "Go Green Go" has joined forces with British model, fashion designer, and cycling aficionado Agyness Deyn on a
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Japan Will Ignore Ban on Bluefin Tuna, Says The Fish Isn't That Endangered
Bluefin tuna is being fished into extinction, and scientists say a ban on fishing is necessary to help numbers recover. However, should a ban be put into place at the upcoming CITES meeting, everyone needs
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'Comploo' Design Heated Entirely by Organic Waste
Architects from the Japanese design firm Bakoko have developed a circular structure, called the Comploo, that could be the perfect sustainable compliment to Japanese Tea Gardens during chilly winters--heated by a unique composting system built in the
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Living With The Side Effects Of Lithium-ion Batteries
There is so much excitement and so little risk management awareness shown for the prospects of a future driven by lithium battery-powered vehicles. It makes
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Australia Sets Deadline For Japan to End Whaling or Face Legal Action
Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has set a deadline for Japan
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Japanese Whalers Suffer Injuries From Acid
According to a report from the news agency EFE,
