Episodes
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Our monthly short-takes episode for November 2024 with sustainability focused consultants Tove & Joy
00:00 Welcome
00:30 No Snow Mt.Fuji
02:00 Climate Change Gov
03:00 Fabric KK B Corp
06:25 WE EXIST docu-series
08:40 Gender-Focused Investing
11:00 Allies for Diversity
13:20 BentonHomestead on CNBC
14:40 CapGemini IT event
16:00 Tomoko Koyama Meterologist
17:41 Yuko Nakahata SustainaSeed
19:24 Same-Sex Marriage Legal
20:00 Sustainable Miyajima Tour Project
21:55 Wild Deer & Tourism
23:09 Musubi-Kiln Sustainable Biz
24:15 Good English Copy Value
24:45 Vegan Osaka
25:50 Toothpaste Packaging
28:28 Organic Fertilizer Experiment
30:00 Enjoy Autumn colors, fruit, veggies
== Upcoming Events & Talk Links ==
= Nov 9 to 30 REI Refugee Empowerment International Walkathon Event: https://rei-npo.org/en/event/stride-of-hope-walking-challenge/
= Dec 5 BCCJ Event on Gender Focused Investments: https://bccjapan.com/events/unlocking-japans-potential-with-gender-focused-investment/
= CapGemini IT company event: https://www.capgemini.com/about-us/
= Sustainaseed: https://en.sustainaseed.net/
= Musubi Kiln: https://musubikiln.com/
= Benton Homestead get a mention on CNBC @bentonhomestead @CNBC https://bentonhomestead.com/press
Watch the CNBC episode here: https://youtu.be/1F637H2yUlo?si=xvKT48MHI2DNZdtU
= Order your vegan cheeses and meat alternatives at VEGAN OSAKA
https://www.veganosaka.com/en/collections/vegan-cheeses
Watch the video version of this talk here on YouTube
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Felicity Tillack is a filmmaker based in Kyoto Japan now working on a documentary series about inclusion and diversity of the LGBTQ+ community in Japan. Tiffany Rossdale produces and stars in this documentary-series titled WE EXIST a focus on LGBTQ+ lifestyles and issues in Japan.
Please Support the film "We Exist" via kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wexistjapan/we-exist-japan-episode-2-lgbtq-documentary?ref=project_link
Watch the live talk with Felicity and Tiffany on YouTube
Support Casey Bean original singer-songwriter who provides the BGM for this podcast - find all of Casey Bean's wonderful tunes on BandCamp
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Wonderful news that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb Survivor HIBAKUSHA group called NIHON HIDANKYO won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but is a future without nuclear weapons a possibility?
Talking about stories from guiding in Hiroshima in combination with this news of the award and current stance of the Japanese PM Ishida about the reality of nuclear weapons and bans.
BGM thanks to Casey Bean - support his music on BandCamp
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Tove Kinooka and JJWalsh are both sustainability focused consultants, educators, advisors and advocates for sustainable business and strategies in Japan. Tove is based in the Tokyo area around the capital and Joy is based in Hiroshima city.
Join us for the next live talk on Oct 28th at 8:30 Japan time: https://www.youtube.com/live/Fg2f4paE9f4?si=BoVYcQHsbqTrhhUl
Sept 2024 topics: Tove's One Young World Conference in Montreal & Montreal's Amazing Fruit & Vegetable Markets | Joy's talk with Dr. Donna Weeks & Japan's Top-3 for the Prime Minister Job- how Sustainable are their policies? | Joy's talk with Emi Kaiwa about sustainable tourism development | Tove's work on resilience at the workplace at the Conrad hotel Tokyo | Joy's work at the Ogasawara islands nature reserve article on Dolphin identification
00:00 Welcome to September Short-Takes
00:28 One Young World 2024
06:47 Japan's Top-3 for PM
07:40 Shijiro Koizumi
10:05 Carbon Tax
12:00 Shigeru Ishiba
13:40 Sanae Takaichi
16:19 Montreal Marche Market
19:58 Ogasawara island article
22:09 Building Resilience at Conrad hotel
27:00 After-hour freedoms from work
29:00 Emi Kaiwa of GSTC
Tove & Joy are both focused on sustainable issues in our work across Japan doing consulting, training, advising & development for business, organizations and tourism.
Tove Kinooka: Enteleco Consulting: https://www.entelecoconsulting.com/
Joy Jarman-Walsh (jjwalsh): Inbound Ambassador: https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh
== BGM thanks to the talented Casey Bean - support his music on BandCamp ==
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Global Sustainable Tourism Council manager Emi Kaiwa talks about her work in Africa with eco-tourism and strategies for how to train guides and managers in Japan to raise awareness of the value for travel that is in better balance with the needs of people, planet and profits.
#sustainabletourism #sustainabletravel #gstc #interview #tourism #travel #sustainable #sustainability #podcast #emikaiwa #DMO #destinationmanagement #certification #training
BGM thanks to The Beanpod artist Casey Bean- support his music on BandCamp
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On September 27th 2024 - the ruling LDP party will choose their next president from a group of seven candidates, but there are 3 top contenders are in the spotlight: Kishida, Ishiba and Takaichi.
Sustainability is the underlying theme of all the big issues for the next Japan Prime Minister: energy, tax & social issues - it's worth having a look at how the top-3 contenders differ on these key issues. The pushback in Japan rural areas for Mega-Solar farms, alternative strategies, and upcoming rooftop solar initiatives in Tokyo are also discussed here.
@medium article here:
https://medium.com/@jjwalsh/japan-top-3-for-pm-on-energy-future-df53d3947414
Background Music thanks to Casey Bean of The BeanPod podcast- support his original music on BandCamp: https://caseybean.bandcamp.com/
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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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