Posts Tagged ‘Tokyo’

Greenpeace praises Nokia, Sony Ericsson, slams Nintendo in ‘green’ study

TOKYO - Nokia and Sony Ericsson make some of the world's most environmentally sound electronics, while Nintendo and Toshiba are among the least eco-friendly, Greenpeace claims in a green guide released Wednesday.

Nintendo ‘least green’: study

TOKYO - NOKIA and Sony Ericsson make some of the world's most environmentally sound electronics, while Nintendo and Toshiba are among the least eco-friendly, Greenpeace claims in a green guide released on Wednesday. The group in its quarterly study rates 18 major companies for their progress on phasing out hazardous substances, recycling electronic waste and improving energy efficiency to avert ...

AD Round Up: Retail Part II

Big, challenging, creative. Designing a retail store may very well define it’s success in the future. Check our first part of previously featured retail stores in ArchDaily. And to finish our week, we bring you our second part of retail. Enjoy! Sarugaku / Akihisa Hirata This is a set of commercial tenant building in Daikanyama, Tokyo. From legal condition it was demanded to build several small volumes in narrow site, and we decided to make several volumes that seemed to be mountains. T

NJP Design Award: Have A Good Sex

The literature racks at Tokyo’s free clinics look exactly the same as their equivalents overseas: a rank-and-file conglomeration of pastel colors and rosy images of happy people with infectious diseases, broken up by the occasional stark, dead-on portrait photography-driven HIV booklet. This informational booklet, more in league visually with the packaging of Escalator Records ‘ releases than any sexual health literature I’ve witnessed in Japan (or the U.S.), stands proud as a breakout piece


Brazil plants trees as Rio mounts ‘green’ Olympics bid

Brazilians have planted more than 3,000 trees in Rio de Janeiro to offset carbon dioxide emissions as the city goes green in its bid to host the 2016 summer Olympics. Rio joins Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo as the cities that will learn their fate on Oc ...


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