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By Joeri Vlekken Alltough I visited the Aichi Expo, only for 1 day, I was able to understand it's main goal. To make people realise that the environment needs to be protected, and that much countries are doing efforts to make the world a greener place. I was surprised by the ideas which vary from a simple water cleaning system on a river, to an advanced ferry on solar power. I was also impressed with the "Global Village" which was a bit off location in my opinion. There was a tree inside a glass sphere protected from the atmosphere, you had to blow into a thing that looked like a phone. The air comes into the sphere and on a diagram you can see how the tree inside purifies the CO out of the air you just blew into the sphere. Very impressive, offcourse there were more impressive stuff but I skipped bigger attractions since there were really long lines and it was extremely hot that day. (I went 5 august) Overall the Aichi Expo was impressive and worth a visit! A made a few pictures which you can view here: http://foto.wereldburger.be/displayimage.php?album=16&pos=165