My work on this site is not normally focused on breaking news, but this one just came out an hour ago and it involves the Plesner v. Louis Vuitton case we've been discussing over the past weeks. The judge in the Hague ruled today in favor of Plesner's right...
I've never been to a court house in the Netherlands, in my 9 years in this country, somehow I never had cause to enter one. After weaving through some of the plethora of government buildings one can find in the Hague, I somehow managed to find the courthouse,...
Just over a year ago Anna Lenzer's exposé on Fiji Water rocked the carefully crafted eco-friendly image the bottled water company once had. From the political, to the environmental, to human rights issues, the piece featured in Mother Jones Magazine showed that Fiji Water was not the company it...
Scanning the landscape of the northeastern United States, from Connecticut down to Washington DC and all the states in between, there is no question that big corporate stores have firmly laid down roots. Of course large chain stores have always made up a part of American suburbia, but if...
Returned to Amsterdam and noticed a new documentary film which is showing back in New York City this week, entitled: BANANAS! Bananas! is the story of the Banana industry's use of a chemical known as Nemagon, a highly toxic chemical compound used for spraying banana trees throughout the 60's and...
