Another vegan ramen choice is coming your way soon in Yokohama City! The Yokohama Vegan Ramen project is getting ready to serve another vegan option to locals with a new dandan noodle meal through crowdfunding. Initiated by the RCE Yokohama Youth...
Fighting climate change requires both drastic reform and individual action. We can do small things in our everyday lives such as avoiding disposable products and opting for reusable alternatives, including bottles and bags. However, consumers...
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are an ambitious set of objectives established in 2015 to improve life on earth. The SDGs include both environmental goals such as clean energy and social goals such as eliminating poverty. Of...
Did you know that during brewing craft beer, up to 2,000 kg of malt lees are produced every month, and that most of it get discarded? Kitafuku in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, a company that manufactures and promotes IoT devices for people who work...
Choosing a gift for someone or buying a treat for yourself from time to time is delightful. What if that shopping is sustainable or contributes to realizing a better society? Wouldn’t it be even more fulfilling? Today, we are at a point where...
Google Trends shows that Japanese searches for “circular economy” have been on the rise since the beginning of 2019. There are several organizations behind this surge. Among them, Circular Economy Japan is working to build a circular...
Minato Mirai 21 is an urban development in Yokohama filled with museums, shopping malls and renowned hotels, all situated on a beautiful waterfront. In a bid to enhance mobility and accessibility around Minato Mirai 21, the city has initiated a...
Yokohama has been chosen as SDGs Future City and is enthusiastic to build a green and sustainable city in Japan. The city has revised “Yokohama City Climate Change Policy Plan” in 2018, in which the city set up a new goal called “Zero Carbon...
The launch of the Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations in 2016 emphasized the need for a collective effort for a better future. Since then, corporations, educational institutes and local governments have been leveraging their...
Goto is a city in Nagasaki prefecture, consisting of 11 inhabited and 52 uninhabited islands. The city is in the westernmost area of the Kyushu Island; almost 1,000 kilometers west from Tokyo. T-Point Japan co. ltd., a Japanese company engaged in...