Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Japan.
Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes, theguardian.com (Nov 20, 2023)
- "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)
2017-2019[edit | edit source]
- How the MyMizu app is creating community and fostering sustainability in Japan, Nov 20, 2019...[1]
- Japan's Seikatsu Club Cooperative challenges consumerism through sustainable consumption, Jan 9, 2019...[2]
- How Japan is working towards creating a true sharing economy, Nov 19, 2018...[3]
- The three-degree world: cities that will be drowned by global warming, Nov 3, 2017...[4]
- Community Power Offers Fukushima a Brighter, Cleaner Future, Feb 14, 2017...[5]
- Consumer Cooperatives in Japan Enter the Digital Age, Feb 2, 2017...[6]
- What a Life of Sharing in Tokyo Looks Like, Jan 30, 2017...[7]
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2015-2016[edit | edit source]
- A snapshot of Transition in... Japan, Apr 20, 2016...[1]
- Adorable Japanese couple devastated by Fukushima turn lives around with solar, Feb 26, 2016...[2]
- This Japanese town is on target to produce zero trash, December 11, 2015...[3]
- Greenery to Citizens! -- Urban Agriculture in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, October, 2015...[4]
- 'Omusubi Money': Local Currency at Kids' Markets Empowers Communities in Japan, August, 2015...[5]
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2014[edit | edit source]
- Community and Locally-led Renewable Energy Projects Highlighted in Renewables Japan Status Report 2014, September 21[1]
- Japan will soon have the world's largest floating solar power plant, September 12[2]
- Toyama City Works Toward Compact City Utilizing Public Transportation, March 27[3]
- Fukushima Pledges To Go 100 Percent Renewable, February 5[4]
- Aizu Electric Power Company Established to Achieve Electricity Self-Sufficiency in Fukushima within Ten Years, Jan 17[5]
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2008-2009[edit | edit source]
- Graveyards, Golf Courses, Forests Or Farmland?[1] December 10, 2009.
- Japan vows 25% reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, but dependent on other nations agreeing targets at December's climate talks in Copenhagen,[2] September 7, 2009.
Japan and South Korea launch Green New Deals,[3] January 9, 2009.
- Climate change: How quest for zero waste community means sorting the rubbish 34 ways,[4] August 5, 2008.
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