Tag Archive: Money

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, […]

While there are so much joys in drinking coffee around the world, unfortunately, what goes on in the lives of humans who produce the coffee is not very glorious. Do advertisements promoting corporations’ good social responsibilities lure you to buy their products so that you are feeling good about supporting the workers and making good […]

How do we define happiness?  Believe or not, the definition of happiness varies from one country to another country.  Qataris from the Middle East believe that money is the gateway to true happiness where they go for elite first class on planes where they expect to be treated like kings and queens.  Swiss believe that […]

I cannot miss out writing a blog entry about Chris Jordan.  He is a photographer based in the US who focuses on the subject of mass consumption.  His work is so scandalous that it opens our eyes to the reality of how much material we consume everyday.  I will be speaking in greater depth about […]

Receiving the news about the loss of Ted Kennedy last summer hit me and my family hard.  We valued in this man because he was the lion of the senate who fought for so many issues including the civil rights and the right to have access to health care.  In his book, True Compass, there […]