A climate advocacy organization is calling upon investors in Japan's three largest banks to vote against board members for failing to recognize and manage the risks posed by investments in fossil fuels.
Japan didn't pass a law to promote Ainu cultural traditions until 1997. It then took until 2019 for a law officially recognizing the Ainu as indigenous. Critics argue the law still doesn't go far enough.
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At Kyotographie, a dense, sprawling retrospective traces Daido Moriyama's evolution through subcultures, street scenes and mass media imagery.
A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.
If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.
Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles.
Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels.
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Internal radiation exposure confirmed even 70 years after atomic bombing
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On the grounds of Kanahebisui Shrine in Japan sits a 300-year-old wisteria tree - older than the founding of the United States. It's one of the reasons travelers are now stopping in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture.
take care! hope you feel better soon
AI translation apps sometimes fail you in Japan, as restaurant staff can attest. An experienced Japan tour guide can leverage relationships with dozens of local establishments that only advertise in Japanese (if they advertise at all).
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The average budget for this year's Golden Week stands at ¥27,660, down 5.4% from a year earlier, according to a survey.
You don’t need more ‘stuff’! Choose to care for the things you already own instead!
Repair instead of replace, and give your clothes a new lease of life.
Learn today: www.collingwoodnorrisdesign.com/visible-mend...
#visiblemending #repair #makedoandmend #betterfortheplanet #sustainableliving
A single basil plant costs $3 at the supermarket and lasts 2 weeks. Grown at home it costs $1 in seeds and lasts all season. The maths always win with a self garden. 🌿🌱
#SelfGarden #HerbGarden #GrowYourOwn #SustainableLiving
Every choice matters. A single-use straw lasts for centuries. That brief convenience comes with a lasting cost. Choose reusable. Protect our oceans. Together, we can turn the tide on plastic pollution.
#DePlastic #PlasticPollution #ReducePlastic #SaveOurOceans #SustainableLiving
When you borrow instead of buy, you can clearly see what you saved - carbon emissions, water usage, and waste diverted from landfills.
This #earthday, let’s break the consumption cycle together. 🌱
#borrowdon’tbuy #sustainable #sustainableliving
Let’s stop treating Earth Day like a moment and start living it like a movement
👇 Drop your favourite eco friendly small business, refill spot, or one way you’ve reduced plastic
#PlasticFree #EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #CanadianSmallBusiness #SustainableLiving #zeroplastic
There's only one perfect photo for this year's Earth Day, and it's this one that the Artemis II crew took. Happy Earth Day.
Browsing for the planet EASY with ECOSIA search engine - just as good as any other but you are funding their renewable energy, forest replanting and other sustainable projects around the world @ecosiasearch.bsky.social Videos of their good work
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Thanks 😊 Azby - another wonderful talk despite the technical difficulty
I had a great time talking with @jjwalsh.bsky.social . A few technical glitches on my end but the conversation continued.
Hybridisation of wind, solar and battery storage is no longer optional – it’s the new baseline reneweconomy.com.au/hybridisatio...
Natural, passive ways to cool your house in Japan & imported designs in Kobe similar to New Orleans designs
#sustainable #housedesign
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Azby Brown tells his first carpentry apprenticeship with a craftsman who could 'read the logs' to align the wood beautifully for a house structure
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Wonderful Japan architecture & design insights from Azby Brown this morning on Seek-Sustainable-Japan talkshow podcast @azby.bsky.social - so many reasons why we should keep (& use) old houses (traditional & imported design) in Japan
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Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
Israeli forces have killed or wounded the equivalent of a classroom’s worth of children every day in Lebanon in the past two weeks of Israel’s escalation against the country, the UN’s children’s agency has reported.
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
A book cover with a yellow background, with red and blue text and some drawings of paintbrushes, books, an eraser, etc.
New Book Announcement!
The Story of Art without Men
An illustrated guide to amazing women artists
by Katy Hessel, illustrated by Ping Zhu
@penguinukbooks.bsky.social 2026
For ages 8-14
#womenartists #newbooksaboutwomenartists #artherstory
The new episode of the Great Women Artists Podcast features Alyce Mahon in a conversation about the inimitable #DorotheaTanning!
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