- "Moins de biens, plus de liens!" ("Fewer things, more relations!") The Japanese best-selling sensation that promotes a degrowth utopia, The Daily Alternative (Sep 12, 2022)
- Japan swelters in its worst heatwave ever recorded, BBC News (Jun 29, 2022)
- Concrete fuels climate change – but there’s a nature-friendly way to defend coasts from rising seas, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
- How to capture satellite images in your backyard – and contribute to a snapshot of the climate crisis, The Conversation (Feb 23, 2022)
Japan (Japanese: 日本, [ɲihoɴ] , Nippon or Nihon, and formally 日本国, Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku) is an island country in East Asia.
[1]Climate action[edit | edit source]
Biodiversity[edit | edit source]
Trees, woodland and forest[edit | edit source]
Community energy[edit | edit source]
Fukushima Community Power Declaration
Ethical consumerism[edit | edit source]
Food activism[edit | edit source]
Solar cooking resources in Japan
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle[edit | edit source]
Recycling in Japan - Kamikatsu waste management
Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]
Urban sustainability[edit | edit source]
ACROS Fukuoka building - Tokyo DIY Gardening, Hands-on gardening for a crowded city
Resources[edit | edit source]
Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]
Events[edit | edit source]
Regular events: Japan Green Drinks, listings for 5 cities
Ecovillages[edit | edit source]
Konohana Family, Japan, link updated 11:43, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Citizens data initiative[edit | edit source]
Other resources[edit | edit source]
- Just Enough lessons in living green from traditional Japan - Review requested
- Translation of transition materials
News and comment[edit | edit source]
2019
How the MyMizu app is creating community and fostering sustainability in Japan, Nov 20[2]
Japan's Seikatsu Club Cooperative challenges consumerism through sustainable consumption, Jan 9[3]
2018
How Japan is working towards creating a true sharing economy, Nov 19[4]
2017
The three-degree world: cities that will be drowned by global warming, Nov 3[5]
Community Power Offers Fukushima a Brighter, Cleaner Future, Feb 14[6]
Consumer Cooperatives in Japan Enter the Digital Age, Feb 2[7]
What a Life of Sharing in Tokyo Looks Like, Jan 30[8]
2016
A snapshot of Transition in... Japan, Apr 20[9]
Adorable Japanese couple devastated by Fukushima turn lives around with solar, Feb 26[10]
2015
This Japanese town is on target to produce zero trash, December 11[11]
Greenery to Citizens! -- Urban Agriculture in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, October[12]
'Omusubi Money': Local Currency at Kids' Markets Empowers Communities in Japan, August[13]
2014
Community and Locally-led Renewable Energy Projects Highlighted in Renewables Japan Status Report 2014, September 21[14]
Japan will soon have the world's largest floating solar power plant, September 12[15]
Toyama City Works Toward Compact City Utilizing Public Transportation, March 27[16]
Fukushima Pledges To Go 100 Percent Renewable, February 5[17]
Aizu Electric Power Company Established to Achieve Electricity Self-Sufficiency in Fukushima within Ten Years, Jan 17[18]
2009
Graveyards, Golf Courses, Forests Or Farmland?[19] December 10
Japan vows 25% reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, but dependent on other nations agreeing targets at December's climate talks in Copenhagen,[20] September 7
Japan and South Korea launch Green New Deals,[21] January 9
2008
Climate change: How quest for zero waste community means sorting the rubbish 34 ways,[22] August 5
Blogs
Near you[edit | edit source]
External links[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia:Japan
- ↑ Shareable
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- ↑ The Guardian
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- ↑ @Shareable
- ↑ Transition Network
- ↑ greenpeace.org
- ↑ huffingtonpost.com
- ↑ Japan for Sustainability
- ↑ Japan for Sustainability
- ↑ Japan for Sustainability
- ↑ theclimategroup.org
- ↑ Japan for Sustainability
- ↑ ThinkProgress
- ↑ Japan for Sustainability
- ↑ Kurashi - News From Japan
- ↑ BBC news
- ↑ United Nations Environment Programme
- ↑ The Guardian