Episodes
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James Hollow and his team at Fabric have set up 10 great strategies in their workplace to give them first-hand insights that inform their consulting work & passion to live a more sustainable life.
== See all the short videos of James Hollow introducing these strategies here ==
So much of what James is putting in place at his office can be an inspiration for others struggling to see how they can reduce waste or encourage a circular mindset among staff.
I hope sharing these ideas will spark new ideas for you- please add your comments below.
Thanks for Casey Bean of The Beanpod podcast for the original music background - support Casey's music on BandCamp: https://caseybean.bandcamp.com/
#sustainable #business #strategy #japan #fabric #jameshollow #sustainablebusiness #businessstrategy #sustainability #podcast
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Dr.Donna Weeks - longtime friend of Seek-Sustainable-Japan - gives insights on the top-7 candidates in Japan's LDP presidential election this month (who will be the country's prime minister) based on her 40 years of research and engagement with Japanese politics as a psephologist.
TOPICS covered in this talk:
Politics & Sustainability?How did your political interest start?Prime Minister Kishida (67)Taro Kono (61)Shinjiro Koizumi (43)Takayuki Kobayashi (50)USA Education of candidatesJapan gov relation to Harris vs TrumpYoko Kamikawa (70)Signaling with profile hobbiesTokyo Governor's RaceShinji Ishimaru surprise popularityThe Social ContractCompulsory voting & engagementArticle 9 Japan constitutionInspired by Seek Sustainable JapanSanae Takaichi (63)Used to be easier to choose PMToshimitsu Motegi (68)Shizo Abe's LegacyShigeru Ishiba (67)Dr.Donna Weeks' choicePM must be popularIs Japan Silver Democracy?Koizumi's Circular EconomyTransparency in PoliticsPsephologist Dr. Donna Weeks has spent the last 40 years engaged with Japan's politics and peace issues and spent most of her career teaching and researching Japanese politics and peace studies at the Department of Political Science at Musashino University, Tokyo.
Now based back home in Brisbane, Australia, but still with an eye on Japanese politics Dr.Weeks can walk us through some of the candidates to look out for in this upcoming prime minister race in Tokyo, the recent Tokyo governor's race and most importantly what kind of politics we should be seeking.
Dr.Donna Weeks blog: https://psephyspix.blogspot.com/
on Instagram & threads: @psephyspix
BGM thanks to Casey Bean of The BeanPod Podcast - support Casey on BandCamp
== Get in touch with JJWalsh @jjwalsh @inboundambassador https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh ==
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Great to catch up after the summer break with fellow sustainability-focused consultant Tove Kinooka on our monthly series Sustainable Japan short-takes. It was a lively discussion of connections across topics that help us find better ways to balance the needs of people and planet with profits.
Read about this podcast on MEDIUM | See the video of this podcast on YouTube
BGM thanks to Casey Bean- support his musical journey on BandCamp
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Follow up interview with the inspiring carpenter-educator-writer Douglas Brooks about more of his projects in Japan and around the world to preserve and celebrate the traditional wooden boats of Japan.
Watch the interview here on YouTube to add visuals to the images we are talking about.
As always, big thanks to Casey Bean for the opening and closing music - find his original tunes on BandCamp and listen to his podcast on your fave player The BEANPOD
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In early spring 2024, Tom Miyagawa Coulton and I traveled on a 24h ferry from Tokyo to some of Japan's most remote and not well known tropical nature reserves called the Bonin or Ogasawara islands. YouTube video of this talk here
Tom is a talented photographer and is always a great collaborator on writing and consulting projects like this around Japan. Video here made by All About Japan of the trip focused on composting toilet sustainability in tourism initiatives.
BGM by talented singer songwriter Casey Bean - support his music on BandCamp
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Amazing last segment of the Fabulous 500th episode of the Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow podcast as we talk with four amazing guests about traditional Japanese houses preservation, renovation and design. Guests: Azby Brown, Alex Kerr, Brett Rassmussen and Jon Stollenmeyer
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Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima Peace Memorial park are difficult places to visit, but also important destinations to maintain and allow people to consider wartime choices and their consequences. This year, I had the chance to visit Pearl Harbor on Hiroshima day August 6th and attend a peace light-up event at Pearl Harbor again on August 7th to commemorate the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.
This is an adaptation of a MEDIUM article I wrote here.
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Celebrating the 500th episode of the Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow and podcast with so many fabulous guests who have previously been on the show to help me talk about some of the most popular and important topics in the series: Business, Farming, Art & Artisans, Minka and traditional house renovation, preservation and design.
Part 1 == Sustainable Business ==
Ruth Jarman, James Hollow & Tove Kinooka
Part 2 == Sustainable Japan Farming ==
Chuck Kayser, Heather Fukase, Nao Fukuoka, Thomas Kloepfer
Part 3 == Crafts & Creative Kyoto ==
Robert Yellin, Emily Kaneko Reynolds, Felicity Tillack
Part 4 == Sustainable Buildings & Traditional Designs ==
Alex Kerr, Azby Brown, Brett Rassmussen, Jon Stollenmeyer
LINKS for the fabulous guests on this special 500th show
Tove Kinooka: https://www.entelecoconsulting.com/
James Hollow: https://fbrc.co/
Ruth Jarman: https://www.jarman-international.com/
Heather Fukase: https://naganonaturally.com/
Thomas Kloepfer: https://www.pitchforkfarms.jp/
Chuck Kayser: https://www.midorifarmkyoto.com/
Nao Fukuoka: https://iniabi.square.site/
Felicity Tillack: https://www.wherenextjapan.com/about/
Robert Yellin: https://linktr.ee/ryygkyoto
Emily Kaneko Reynolds: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Emily-Kaneko-Reynolds/dp/B0CZL1BB7G
Alex Kerr: http://alex-kerr.com/
Azby Brown: https://azbybrown.com/
Jon Stollenmeyer: https://somakosha.com/en/home
Brett Rassmussen: https://www.okibi.jp/
Watch all of the Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow-podcast here on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GsvS0rEOgSiQVAyKbEFSRP&si=I6k2sGOW1KIOY1Sn
Audio podcast version of the Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow can be found on your favorite player or here: https://seek-sustainable-japan.captivate.fm/
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Kyoto is a famous and important hub for Japanese art, culture and traditions- here we talk with 3 Kyoto based creatives who share their latest projects and insights: Robert Yellin is a living legend on anything connected to Japanese pottery and ceramics- he runs a curated pottery and ceramic art gallery along the famous philosopher's path. Felicity Tillack is a talented filmmaker and storyteller who shares her latest work on inclusivity for the LGBTQ+ people in Japan. Emily Kaneko Reynolds is a natural plastering experts and artisan who is based in rural Kyoto.
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In the second part of the Fabulous 500th Multi-Guest Episode we caught up with 4 wonderful organic and natural farmers on their latest projects and insights.
Nao Fukuoka is cofounder of Iniabi farms in Hiroshima / Heather is cofounder of Nagano Naturally in Nagano / Chuck is founder of Midori farms in Kyoto and Shiga / Thomas Kloepfer is founder of Pitchfork farms in Hiroshima
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This is the first of 4 parts of the 500th Episode of the Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow-podcast with a multitude of talented and special guests who have previously appeared in the series.
This part one is with Tove Kinooka co-founder of Enteleco consulting in Tokyo, James Hollow founder of Fabric consulting and research co in Tokyo, Ruth Jarman founder of Jarman international in Tokyo.
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Andrew Russell is originally from Scotland, but has been living and brewing sake in Japan for more than 8 years. In winter, Andrew is busy brewing sake from Oct to Mar each year, but during the off-brewing season, he gives excellent Sake tours in the famous brewing region of Nada in Hyogo. This is the third sake brewing area in Japan where he has worked with a local brewer.
Originally from Scotland, Andrew has a MA in Japanese studies and has worked in 3 sake breweries in Okayama, 3 in Hiroshima and now 3 in Nada so he has a deep understanding and appreciation for Sake in Japan.
I've heard Andrew's Sake tour is amazing - he has first hand experience using tools in the sake museum and knows how important each of the ingredients and processes are to the final resulting sake taste, aroma and look.
I have enjoyed listening to many of his insights into the history, culture and people of the sake world in Japan- he is the co-host of the Sake Deep Dive podcast.
My first talk in 2022 with Andrew here when he was brewing with FUKUCHO headed by Miho Imada in Akitsu Hiroshima: https://www.youtube.com/live/_FM1gbdgnjo?si=YPS4VK-WDPoJtpdh
Origin Sake Tours: https://www.originsaketours.com/blank-2
Sake Deep Dive Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sake-deep-dive/id1587884895
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JUNE topics: Refugees | Same-Sex Couples Equality | Koike vs Renho Tokyo Gov | Big Garbage Reuse by Gov on Mercari app | Compost Toilets & Sustainable Travel | Peace Ed & Gaza from Hiroshima | Mountain Ecosystem Tokyo Event | BCCJ event Exploring Japan Corporate Diversity
LINKS:
==Renho vs Koike for Tokyo Gov== https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/202...
== Refugees==
https://rei-npo.org/en/ | https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends | https://www.unhcr.org/events/world-re...
== Same Sex Couples Equality Event ==
https://bccjapan.com/news/robert-walt...
== Event at FABRIC in JULY to promote sustainability in the mountains ==
https://mountain-ecosystem-legacy-act...
==Joy's Ogasawara Island Sustainable Travel Video==
• 小笠原諸島 母島バイオトイレプロジェクト/Ogasawara Island...
== Japan Gov using MERCARI to #reuse Dai-Gomi Big Item Waste ==
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Ashley Souther has lived and worked in Japan for almost 30 years and talks here about his passion for peace education at his high school in Hiroshima, his experience as a pro-wrestler in Gaza and then Japan, as well as how he tries to connect people to the human stories in Gaza and related war-torn areas of conflict. Ashley also talks of his research and writing for his PhD focused on international peace issues at the Hiroshima City University.
Ashley is featured by NHK for his work in Hiroshima as an educator of peace studies as well as English. Ashley is also an activist who gives talks and takes part in protests in front of the A-bomb dome in peace park to promote peace and help raise awareness to stop the war in Gaza.
NHK: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/sh...
#prowrestling #japan #peaceforgaza #peaceeducation #hiroshima #activist
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I have a great love for the sustainability of Japanese indigo. It can be grown without pesticides while capturing carbon and restoring the soil, it can be used without damage to the people who work with it and it can be put down the drain without damage to the environment and waterways- a perfect solution to our modern textile needs. Aizome also has anti-bacterial properties which help keep the wearer healthy- it also looks great, preserves Japanese culture and traditions and is a great asset to a business and the local economy.
Sally Hancox is originally from the UK but co-founded this AiAii business with her husband. They have been based on Awaji Island raising a family since 2015 and opened their own indigo dye shop & workshop called AiAii in 2020. They grow their own plants, ferment and create the dyes, create beautiful products, as well as do workshops for visitors.
https://aiaii.blue/pages/en
"We love how modern some of the results of the ancient methods appear, and we also like inventing our own apparatus and techniques, or borrowing and blending with indigo dyeing methods from around the world." - Sally
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In this follow-up episode with Miroslav Bachura, an architect design and urban planning insider based in Shizuoka - we discuss some key issues of good, more sustainable (people-planet-profits in balance) urban design with examples from Kyoto, Shizuoka and other areas.
Miroslav Bachura joined us last month to talk about his renovation projects in Shizuoka and insights from his presentation this year at the Minka Summit 2024.
0:00:00 Welcome back Miro
0:00:25 Minka Summit
0:02.00 Miyama village fieldtrip
0:03:00 2m26 thatch atelier
0:05:30 Keynote Azby Brown
0:07:00 Highland Inn GH
0:09:00 Keeping Heritage of Minka
0:10:10 Minka Mall shared knowledge value
0:13:10 Build love of Minka with Future Gen
0:14:40 Natural Plaster Benefits
0:16:50 What is good urban design?
0:17:30 Kyoto's good design- waterways
0:20:00 History of Edo design
0:24:05 Shizuoka city plan map
0:25:40 Hiroshima's quality of life rebuild
0:27:00 Kyoto's Tree lined streets
0:29:00 Prague shady city streets
0:29:50 Houston filled with trees
0:30:00 No trees problem city design
0:31:48 Trees in Tokyo good design
0:33:40 Pedestrian only zones
0:36:00 Test Accessibility in Wheelchair
0:37:40 Kyoto new yet traditional
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Japan needs the diverse perspectives represented in the creative performance arts & Aya tells us the how and why theatre, acting and performance helps us live healthier and happier lives.
Aya Kawakami Murray is a university educator who founded the Theatre Iridescence in Nagoya and will give us insights on her backstory, vision for the theatre, a bit about her process, and introduce some of the group's upcoming projects. In this talk, Aya introduces why she started the theatre, how she feels about being based in Nagoya Japan and how teaching the performance arts is a great life skill for her students.
Buy your tickets and see more about past and upcoming performances on the website for Theatre Iridescence - founded by Aya Kawakami Murray
https://theatreiridescence.com/
BGM thanks to The Beanpod host Casey Bean - Support Casey Bean's Musical Journey on BandCamp
https://caseybean.bandcamp.com/
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The Minka Summit 3-day Event in rural Kyoto (Hanase village) this year had so much great information and insights from experts and insiders across Japan who have first hand experience with renovation and preservation of old houses and traditions as well as developing their rural area communities.
This podcast is the audio from the panel discussion I moderated at this year's Minka Summit titled "How to Find and Renovate a Minka" with speakers Brett Rassmussen, David Caprara, Mark Benham and Sam Holden
About the Minka Summit Japan Event:
https://kominkajapan.org/schedule-at-a-glance-2024
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The Minka Summit 3-day Event in rural Kyoto (Hanase village) this year had so much great information and insights from experts and insiders across Japan who have first hand experience with renovation and preservation of old houses and traditions.
This podcast is the audio from the panel discussion I moderated at this year's Minka Summit titled "Connecting to the Legacy of your Minka" with speakers Shelley Clarke, Jeremy Phillipps, Brett Rassmussen and Marcus Consolini
https://kominkajapan.org/schedule-at-a-glance-2024
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Double the fun in one episode of our April and May live talks in the Sustainable Japan short-takes series with consultants Tove Kinooka and Joy Jarman-Walsh.
April 2024 Episode:
00:30 Bring Your Own Bottle01:00 Refill with MyMizu01:45 Singaport Hilton tap water sign02:40 What is MyMizu?03:15 Is Plastic Recycled?04:05 Plastic Waste Export Crisis06:20 Our Waste Our Problem07:10 Ask for refills 08:30 Hotel Greenwashing10:00 No waste communication12:50 Show how you're a better visitor?13:50 Japan Times sustainable news14:33 Freshen Up Old Shoes16:00 DIY materials 16:30 2nd Hand Stores18:00 Minka Summit Event 20:30 Tokyo Rainbow Pride Event21:50 Rakuten D&I24:30 Same Sex Partner Visa Issues26:10 Earth Day holiday kids adventure28:00 Picking up trash & no cans29:00 Hiroshima Flower Festival30:00 Spartan Obstacle Adventure RacingLINKS
+ Japan Times - Bottled water has more microplastics than previously thought (2024: - Montre plus