The Human Cost of Electronics: Who Pays the Price?
Not only is it wasteful to upgrade your phone every year or 2 years, it’s also hurting those who make it: Brands should take responsibility for supply chain responsibility, b
Ridiculous cultural preferences for a baby boy or a baby girl
A small rant today. I don’t believe in preferring one gender over another, but many cultures do this, and it’s mainly the baby girls that get killed, aborted, abandoned
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – Food in Markets
I don’t care what anyone says, some of these fresh markets are what it was like way back when, before refrigeration, food safety laws and other basic sanitary rules were enf
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – Workplace and Government Safety Standards
Just writing that title made me laugh because I remember seeing how many workplace violations there would be if they were in North America under rules. CLEANING SKYSCRAPER WINDOWS
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – General Observations
This is part of the Travel: What it’s like to visit each city series I’m doing, to talk about what it’s like to see each city I’ve been through, from a fore
China: The Middle Way – Organic Foods and Why What We’re Eating Matters
I am still not sold on China in all of its aspects, but it does make me very happy to hear that there are Chinese people who feel differently about the way things are done in China
Natalie and AJ: Interracial and Crosscultural couple in Beijing
A really well done video about an English girl who moved to Beijing, and met a Chinese guy. I especially like the part where AJ tried to explain to his Chinese mother that she was
Companies are really full of crap these days
I’ve been looking into footwear lately. Namely, replacing what I own in terms of shoes, with things that are not made in cheap, Third World countries. My basic footwear group
Can we trust anything made in China? My life with as little of China in it as possible.
Disclaimer: I am not posting this in an attempt to ram this Anti-China bit down your throat in a militant manner. I am doing it because I didn’t know about it before, and I w
Save like a developing country: Global savings rates around the world
The only data I’ve been able to get for all the countries at once, is for the year 2010. Luckily, it isn’t so far off from 2013, and the savings rates at a quick glance