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OUR PLANET EARTH

Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jan 24, 2010
Saving the planet through its trees
Negotiators at the COP15 conference in Copenhagen didn't see eye to eye on much last month, but almost everyone agreed on one thing: To protect the planet we need to save its forests.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Dec 27, 2009
COP15 farce: There's always more time, till there isn't
Post-conference analysis of the Copenhagen COP15 has ranged from despair and disgust to guarded optimism that 2010 will bring a new and better agreement.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Nov 22, 2009
Beyond Copenhagen there's more than just cutting CO2
Imagine for a minute that global warming is not changing our planet's biosphere and the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Oct 25, 2009
Of simmering frogs and economists leaping to terminal conclusions
They say that if a frog is dropped into boiling water it will jump out, but if it is placed in water that is then heated slowly it will steadily acclimate and boil to death — having missed its chance to escape.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 27, 2009
Captains of industry must stop playing the blame game — now
While visiting India earlier this month I had a revelation.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Aug 23, 2009
Imagine a time with no fish in the sea
BAR HARBOR MAINE — Each summer, our family visits this part of the New England coast, and each year I am reminded of the elemental connections humans share with the oceans.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jul 26, 2009
'Groundhog Day' man realizes why solar fans love running backward
Events this month have brought home to me once again the enduring truth of that popular slogan, "Think globally, act locally."
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 28, 2009
Priorities and politics 'must change fast' to head off global calamity
The 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer declared: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
May 24, 2009
Students share hopes for nation's future environment
Each year on May 5, Japan celebrates Children's Day with waves of young families flooding local parks, playgrounds and amusement centers.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Apr 26, 2009
Ignorance of 'sustainability' is not an option
Judging from the last month's headlines, it's clear we are collectively still not getting it — despite how much we know about the environment. In fact, it seems the more we know, the less we learn.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Mar 22, 2009
Our mantra of continuous growth has left us on ecological brink
If print media are any indication, change is in the air. Readers are sourcing news in new ways, and newspaper sales are declining as a result.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Feb 22, 2009
'Sustainability' in a Japanese way
Takeshi Hara is an accomplished journalist, author and educator, and at 70 years of age he could easily choose to rest on his laurels.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jan 25, 2009
Soft power beckons as time comes for academia to act sustainably
As I am for the most part an optimist, it seems only right to kick off 2009 with an upbeat column and, as an educator, one area I believe offers great promise is education.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Dec 24, 2008
Overseas aid benefits whom?
PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA — Despite widespread awareness and censure of human rights violations, Japan, the United States and member nations of the European Union continue to give aid to governments that use the money to enrich themselves while ravaging ecosystems and brutalizing their own citizens. China is now a major donor, too, but China doesn't claim to care about human rights.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Nov 26, 2008
Asia's first lady of the environment
If Barak Obama is serious about developing proactive environmental policies that are international is scope, he would do well to work closely with Japan.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Oct 22, 2008
A plea for the wetlands
Representatives of 158 nations will converge next week on Changwon in South Korea, where they will spend nine days, from Oct. 27 to Nov. 4, talking about how to save the world's wetlands.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Sep 24, 2008
You know IG makes common sense: a re-energized U.S.
What if nations around the world were to adopt intelligent systems that would revolutionize the way we produce and consume energy?
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Aug 27, 2008
Exploring Antarctica for key climate clues
The steamy hot days of summer make it very tempting to imagine an escape to the snow and ice of Antarctica, though few of us will ever have that chance. Shin Sugiyama, 39, a glaciologist at Hokkaido University, is one of the exceptions.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jul 23, 2008
There's still hope — despite our milquetoast* leaders
In the runup to the Group of Eight summit held this month in a stupendously policed corner of Japan's most remote northern island, there was widespread expectation that little would be achieved on the environmental agenda.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 25, 2008
All hail capitalism, mendacious destroyer of life on Earth
If you're hoping that the representatives of the world's richest nations meeting in Hokkaido for the G8 Summit next month will take action on climate change, you're in for a disappointment.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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