A conference on Sustainable Development: The End of Business as We Know it….?

It was the pleasure of the Eco+waza team to be invited to attend the recent conference organised by the European Business Council in Japan (EBC) on ‘The End of Business as We Know it: Perspectives on Sustainable Development’. This was the first of its kind to be organised by the EBC and the line-up of speakers was impressive. Topping the guest list for the afternoon... Read More

This House of Straw: The Story of Square One

If it weren’t for a touch of insomnia, Toby and Maiko Weymiller’s dream home might still be just a dream. Up early one morning, Toby wandered out to the living room in their Seattle apartment, and picked up a book from the coffee table. Lent by a friend a few months before who knew of their search for land and desire to build sustainably, they hadn’t had a chance... Read More

Video: Toko Tomita from AMNESTY

Video streaming by Ustream Human rights and environmental issues. These two huge issues tend to be thought of as two different fields. However many problems nowadays are sharing both aspects. Our guest today is Toko Tomita from Amnesty International, Japan. Toko talks about the “Niger-delta” issue, an environmental and human rights issue still occuring in Nigeria. Program... Read More

Tokyo’s Creative Greenness Revealed

Hand Made Tokyo, a small book documenting a unique interactive gardening workshop held last summer, may forever change readers perceptions of the city. As it puzzles together photographs, academic texts, personal observations, blog posts and articles (full disclosure: two of my articles are included.) it records the evening’s event and reveals in the process the city’s... Read More

EBW TV- EcoCert Japan, Tanguy Przybylski 2/2

ECOCERT-QAI Japan is a France based organic certification company. We invited Tanguy Przybylski (JAS international projects) to talk about organic certification and issues in Japan. Video streaming by Ustream  Read More