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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, [...]
26th Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Exploring Rice Fields through Segways Taishi “Brian” AZUMA My dream is for Japan to become a “nation of the environment, and a role model for the world”. I believe that the combination of Japanese technology and ancient wisdom can contribute to achieving a more sustainable society in the world. The goal for our project is [...]
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
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 [...]
Event: 21st Sep 2011 – 21st Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
The E-idea Japan award ceremony will be attended by The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, UK Secretary of State for Transport, Mr Hideki Minamikawa, Administrative Vice Minister of the Japanese Ministry of Environment as well as Mike James, Managing Director of LRQA and Simon Batters, Vice-President LRQA Japan and Korea, and will see presentations to [...]
19th Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Arif Nugroho, an E-idea winner from Indonesia, runs a company that converts discarded coconut husks into 100% biodegradable netting that is used to prevent erosion and as a medium for growing plants in former mining sites under reclamation. Arif’s clients include multinationals such as Chevron and Total and his project employs 100 female workers, reduces [...]
16th Sep 2011
Repsol YPF has today announced in a press statement that their A Coruña Refinery is the first in the world to be awarded ISO 50001 for Energy Management.
14th Sep 2011
The 2011 edition of the annual Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Global 500 report – which examines carbon reduction activities at the world’s largest public corporations – has found for the first time in the ten year history of the survey, that the majority have climate change actions embedded as part of their business strategy.
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