Tag Archive: Corporation

This time lapse video by Stephen Wilkes, an American photographer, depicts a landscape of Wal-Mart in 24 hours.  The most striking part of the video I noticed is that Wal-Mart leaves lights on 24 hours 7 days a week like several other stores across the country.  This scene represents an example of how much fossil […]

The author of Life Inc. Douglas Rushkoff, speaks in a video about how our life is tremendously affected by money, corporations, and materialism.  The video is a summary version of his book, Life Inc.  As always, Rushkoff puts his words in my mouth, as I can share my sentiments regarding his concerns about how corporations […]

What is American power? American power truly influences the world.  When I travel abroad and stay with host families, I’ve found them watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, Desperate Housewives and the OC on television and listening to music by Michael Jackson, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Lopez.  They are fascinated by our cultural youth activities […]

I’m creating a scenario.  I was in the fitting room of a clothing store called Beautiful (FYI – I made up the name.)  For this store, I normally wear size two in shirts and size four in pants.  I put on a shirt in size two.  Wow!  Did I lose any weight?  This shirt is […]

Puma, a shoe company, created a “clever little bag” to replace shoe boxes to help change the world for the better.  According to the article I came across, Puma’s redesigned shoebox will consume much less waste: “Puma claims that this new design will save about 8,500 tons of paper, 20 million Mega joules of electricity, […]