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Yet another innovation by Japan - Bamgoo, an electric vehicle with a body made of bamboo. This ecologically friendly concept car was developed by the Kyoto University’s Venture Business Laboratory and the city, featuring local bamboo ware technology.
The 60-kg single-seater measures 2.7m in length, 1.3m in width and 1.65m in height. The car can run [...]

Japanese women dressed in yukata or summer casual kimono, sprinkle recycled water on the hot road as a part of nationwide campaign to ease the urban heat along a street in Tokyo`s Ginza shopping district on Sunday. Temperatures had soared to 34 deg C in the Japanese capital.
Source: The Statesman & The Straits Times
Image: The [...]

With animal feed and fertilizer prices at record highs, Japan’s food recycling industry is seeing greater demand than ever before for pellets for pigs and poultry made from recycled leftovers.
Japan disposes of some 20 millions tonnes of food waste a year, five times as much as world food aid to the poor in 2007. The [...]

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday announced a loan to Indonesia of US$300m dollars in the first batch of aid under Tokyo’s new initiative on fighting climate change.
Fukuda met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the Japanese northern resort of Toyako on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit.

Fukuda “highly praised” Indonesia’s [...]

A little update on the G8 Summit.
The G8 has agreed “to consider and adopt” a target of at least a 50% cut in carbon emissions by 2050. But the deal, agreed at the G8 summit in northern Japan, was immediately rejected by the big five emerging economies, including China and India because they believe it [...]

Toilets that take on a life of their own, eco-cars coming sooner than you might think and security on Segways have cast this year’s G8 summit in a decidedly green hue.
Japan has made climate change awareness the overarching theme of this year’s meeting of rich nations and reminders to be environmentally aware are everywhere, down [...]

Was reading the papers when I came across this article on the front page. It was discussing how oil cultivated from algae could be used as alternative source of energy in Asia, mainly Japan.
The viability of using algae to produce oil has been already been widely discussed. It is possible for algaes to produce oil [...]

Today, we will be looking at something very familiar to us - Beer. Japanese Sapporo Beer actually.
Just yesterday, Sapporo announced that it will include a label on one of its beer products next year stating how much carbon dioxide is emitted per can during the entire production and disposal process.
The label will be printed on [...]