Do you want to enjoy a cool craft beer in a hot sweaty summer in Japan, while doing good for the environment at the same time? Then you should try the first Japanese craft beer, bread beer, made from leftover bread crusts in Tokyo and Nagano. The...
In recent years, the concept “sharing economy” has spread gradually spreading in Japan. It’s an idea where individuals and companies mutually share their idle resources, thereby circulating and building the economy efficiently, in a wasteless...
On July 21, Japan will have municipal elections throughout the country in order to select assembly members and heads of local governments. Through Patagonia’s Vote Our Planet Campaign, the company will be shutting their stores to not only bring...
The use of carbon offset through carbon zero products and services within Japan are steadily increasing. Examples include the Japanese government’s J-Credit Scheme and Rakuten products such as the “CO2 zero” fan. How have these...
Professor Makoto Ichitsubo from Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT) hopes to apply the United Nations’ sustainable development goals to technical education. To achieve that, his project team has created an e-book about the Sustainable Development...
About an hour’s drive from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo is Kisarazu, Chiba prefecture, where an organic farm and nature park “KURKKU FIELDS” will open in the fall of 2019. Kurkku Corporation, the initiator of this unique project...
Japan welcomed the new era of Reiwa in May this year, with many Japanese visiting the shrines, participating in a mark of change in history. These Shinto shrines have been the oasis providing emotional support for the past millennium. And now, the...
From 2020, elementary schools throughout Japan will begin teaching programming from the fifth grade level. And Scratch is one of the programming languages that is catching some attention. Scratch is a visual-programming language targeted primarily...
There is a restaurant which engages in urban farming in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The number of restaurants that practice urban farming to reduce waste and accomplish zero food miles is increasing in North America and Europe. However, it is...
(Zenbird has an updated list of sustainable cafes and sustainable restaurants here.) A month ago, we introduced 5 sustainable restaurants and cafes in Tokyo. We felt that the list was a little short, so let’s double that number! We shall be...