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10th Oct 2011 by JChowdhury
Yoshihisa Onishi, Consultant at Japan FSMS Assessment and Registration Body (JFARB), discusses the purpose FSSC 22000 and how it can improve food safety. “In Japan, the spread of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) was promoted by establishment of the “Total Hygiene Controlled Manufacturing Process Approval System”. When ISO 22000 was issued in 2005, [...]
5th Oct 2011
The second day of the E-idea regional workshop for over 40 eco entrepreneurs winners (or E-idealists as they are being called) from the Asia-Pacific region was all about implementing their learnings from the first day and further exploring their relationships with other E-idealists.
4th Oct 2011
The workshop provides a unique opportunity for the E-idea winners (or E-idealists as they are being called) to experience the cultural diversity and share their sustainable solutions with their fellow winners….
4th Oct 2011
Interview with Simon Batters, Vice President LRQA Japan and Korea and E-idea Project Director
28th Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Art School by FUNFAM Tsuneyuki Fujioka “Deforestation” has now become a hot issue worldwide, and there has been a tightening of timber harvesting regulations. In such a situation, bamboo has an important role as a sustainable and renewable resource. Through the use of bamboo kitchenware and its connection to the everyday habit of eating, children [...]
27th Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Energy Literacy Platform Shuichi Ishibashi Our vision is to optimize energy consumption in households in Japan by providing our “Energy Literacy Platform”, which will enable you to manage in a user-friendly way your household energy consumption. By creating a system to check real-time energy usage, we believe that we can enhance the energy literacy of [...]
27th Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Tie for Change Hiromi Morimoto Tie for Change (TFC) aims to help us change our perception and behavior from a position of “looking at what we don’t have” to one which “realises and embraces the richness of what we already have. TFC aims to contribute to sustainability by creating an ecological, educational and empowering platform, [...]
23rd Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Cyclus Satoshi Yanagisawa The issues of sustainability has become widely recognized and an area of general interest. However, we have not yet got to grips with this ethos of sustainability to the degree we would like to think we have. Certainly, there has been a very ambitious socio-restructuring movement which contains lots of potential but [...]
22nd Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Key leaders from various industries will gather at this year’s CSR Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur on 27 and 28 September, the annual flagship event of CSR Asia, to discuss CSR developments across four themes: Asian CSR strategies; environmental issues; community investment; and, sustainable supply chains and food security. View a full copy of the [...]
22nd Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Horses and Humans Together Tatsunori Kikuchi In Japan, the food infrastructure system- the most important element for survival- is weakening because of gap between the demand and supply. This gap is caused by several reasons including reduction in the land used for cultivation, and decreased food productivity stemming from a fall in the working-age population [...]
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