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DPJ and the Environment
As I wrote earlier, the Democratic Party of Japan, which recently won a landslide election, is calling for major environmental changes, including significantly greater carbon emission targets than the...
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Statistics on World Urban Population
According to the United Nations Population Fund, in 2008 the world achieved an urbanization milestone, 3.3 billion people, more than half the world’s peoples, now lived in cities. By 2030, 5 billion...
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Mebiol: Hydrogel Agriculture Technology
I recently had the chance to meet Professor Mori Yuichi of Mebiol, an agriculture technology company in Kanagawa. This research professor at Waseda University started Mebiol in 1995 exploring first...
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A visitor’s view of “pure living” in Tokyo
An interesting blog post about Tokyo’s environmental paradoxes by Piers Fawkes of PSFK, organizer of the Pure Living Tokyo idea salon last month sponsored by Nissan. In a very brief visit to Tokyo,...
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Conservation and sharing
東京のみんなが協力しているのを感じます。 Thank you to everyone who has reached out to inquire about Tokyo and its residents’ wellbeing this week. We appreciate that so many people are helping with the rescue and...
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Inside a Japanese nuclear power plant
原発についてたくさん勉強になりましたけれども、毎日の生活とエネルギーの本当のコストの問題が残っています。 A fascinating short video from IDG News Service’s @martyn_williams shows the inside of a functioning nuclear power plant in Japan. It’s Kashiwazaki...
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First sakura after great earthquake
井ノ頭公園が花見を中止するというのは、本当でしょうか。先が見えないので、みんなが不安で落ち着かないようです。 My friend Matt sent me this intricate sakura weather map: it shows the updated forecast for the start of cherry blossoms across the Japanese...
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Leaving the apartment on a rainy spring day
アパートの入り口から見えた、雨降りの朝の景色です。節電ですから、電気をほとんど消しています。中と外の対象がはっきりしていますね。 This is the view from my apartment building lobby on a rainy spring day. Because of energy conservation, many lights are turned off....
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Okinawa morning glory on balcony green curtain
毎朝たくさん沖縄アサガオが咲いていて、グリーン・カーテンはいっぱいになってきました。江戸アサガオとちがって、沖縄アサガオは多年生植物です。この夏は三年目です。正午 までに、花は全部しぼんでいます。 節電のために、今年まだエアコンを使っていません。エアコンを使わないと、楽しめる場所がもっとできます。 Every morning, lots of Okinawa morning glories are...
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Commemorating Japan suspending nuclear power on May 6, 2012
日本の原発の全休止が実行されて、５月６日に高円寺でパレードがありました。演説、抗議のプラカード、散歩、音楽、そしてコズプレがありました。あいにく、強い嵐が来て、雹が降っていました。それでも、幸せな会合でした。 The day after Japan suspended operations at the last nuclear plant, there was a celebration in...
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