In downtown Kamaishi City, in Japan’s northeastern Iwate Prefecture, I asked a taxi driver to take me to Nakamise Street. “Nakamise Street?” he says. “It’s just a shuttered shopping strip.” “The place used to bustle with life,” he added. It was just...
While we explored why consumer should play the lead role in sustainable shopping, there was also another session that took place under the same theme of sustainable businesses. Here is our report of the session “Profitable Sustainable...
Out of all the many daily goods, perhaps the most surprisingly destructive items to the environment are T-shirts. Oil is a necessary ingredient to produce polyester used in making T-shirts. The risks of Oil However, oil not only emits carbon...