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Cash for Recyclers . Swedes Charitable Recycling Machine
Mar 15th, 2010
Creativity Is The Solution. Think Out Of The Box.
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Recycle. Push. Donate
Recycling a metallic can in Sweden gives you 0.5kr (Swedish Krona) or 6 yen. Recycling plastic bottles give you 1kr or 2kr, equivalent to 12 or 25 yen. No wonder around 91% of cans and 88% of plastic bottles are recycled each year.
The Swedes have taken this system to the next level by adding a new charity button to the recycling machines. Instead of getting a money voucher, you can choose to donate the money to the Swedish Cooperation Centre charity working towards giving “help to self help” in developing countries.
How recycling for charity works
Feel good, musical recycling advertising.
2009 alone saw 6.4million kroners in donations, that’s nearly 80million yen.
Panta = recycling in Swedish. Mera = more. Panta mera!For further information visiti www.pantamera.nu
Via ecoideasnet[/caption]We need more people like you!
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As we talked about the value of content sharing in our contribution post to Tokyo Metropolis magazine, we’ve expanded the relationship to another great online media – Japan Today.
Japan Today, launched in September 2000, is a Tokyo-based online newspaper, featuring all the latest news on Japan and the world, including national, political, entertainment, business, technology and sports news. Japan Today publishes original content, including interviews with celebrities and business executives, and translations of pop culture articles from popular Japanese magazines and newspapers. And under their newly launched special feature “INSIGHT” section, there are collection of articles, stories, experiences and opinions garnered from the Thought-Leaders, Innovators and Visionaries in Japan. If you look inside the “Navigating A Sustainable Future” column, you would find out our recent contribution post.
Food for Thought – Future of Food
Over the past few years, there has been unprecedented media coverage and resulting community interest generated around the issue of food security in Japan. This has been fueled by scandals such as those arising from scandals like the case of the Chinese dumplings poisoning and “Jikomai” (damaged rice). As a result, many consumers are shifting their choices to healthier, domestically (or locally) produced food or even to growing their own vegetables in veranda gardens. Despite these individual efforts and increasing eco-consciousness, Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate is only 40% – shamefully the lowest amongst of the developed nations (Australia- over 200%, USA-132%, France 139% etc). But what’s more frightening is the fact (which many people do not know ) that self-sufficiency rate of Tokyo is 1% (From the 2007 MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) survey of all prefectures in Japan.
Click HERE to read the rest of the post.
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We all know the importance and value of the internet in disseminating messages. And if those messages are practical, entertaining and economical, they should be shared to a broader audience.
And that is exactly what we at greenz.jp is trying to achieve. How can we share our unique Japanese ways of thinking, knowledge and practices to accelerate the adoption of sustainability ? Probably, the most simple way is to collaborate with like minded media and share content.
So we’ve teamed up with Tokyo Metropolis, the No.1 English magazine in Tokyo, Japan with distribution of 30,000 copies. The magazine is read by over 70,000 readers from 1000 distribution points throughout Tokyo, Yokohama and Chiba.
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green drinks Tokyo Thu March 11, 2010
Creating sustainable workstyles with less than 10 employees
green drinks Tokyo is a casual drinking party held on the second Thursday of every month. March’s topic is “Creating sustainable workstyles with less than 10 employees”
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Keyboards, iPod, fur and more knit together. Photo: Nooshin Navidi
Here at greenz, we love cultural creative design that reinforces positive messages for the future of society. Take for example the Sustainable fashion challenge: One dress, 365 days, or Forest Milk, winner of the 2009 Good Design Awards. So, as a recent transplant to Tokyo from the green and techie Silicon Valley, California, I was doubly intrigued to come across MODE less CODE, a high concept eco + art + LAN lines + fashion exhibit at Nanzuka Underground by Kosuke Tsumura. (more…)
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Sustainable fashion challenge: The Uniform Project, One dress, 365 days
Mar 8th, 2010
Uniform Project: Creative Commons. All Rights Reserved. Photo by OutsaPop
We’ve all heard of fast food, but… fast fashion?! That’s right, cheap and convenient, perfect for the modern urbanite; fast fashion tempts customers with new models of cheap clothing everywhere they turn. This trend towards cheap, fast fashion has lead to concerns of fostering a ‘disposable clothing’ market.
One project has begun to tackle this trend head-on by asking ‘what is a sustainable way of enjoying fashion?’ Let’s see what the Uniform Project: One Dress, 365 Days is all about. (more…)
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Design for life: Could ‘Savior Bud’ be the solution to the world’s water worries?
Mar 5th, 2010
‘Savior Bud’ is an award winning design concept that was presented at the Seoul Design Olympiad by Kim Hyo Jin and Seol Ah Sun from Kyung Sung University in South Korea. Inspired by Shel Silverstein’s book ‘The Giving Tree’, ‘Savior Bud’ is a clear plastic capsule designed to collect water from plant leaves.
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The Green Energy Partnership, formed in 2008 to promote green energy, held a competition for posters and videos promoting green energy. The slogan: ‘Green Creative Contest – Let’s draw our future together!’
- This article has been translated by Ken from the original Japanese article by Takeshi Okahashi (November 18, 2009).
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Seven things you can do to lead a greener life
Green Thing uses clever videos and graphics from some of the best creative talent in the world to inspire the rest of us to act against climate change. There are seven topics, big and small, you can enjoy doing to make the world a better place. From saving energy to walking more or going easy on the meat; watch, laugh, enjoy, but most importantly – be inspired and do the green thing! (more…)
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With 2009 drawing to an end, greenz.jp would like to share eight great green party ideas. If you want to see how they work in practice, then come along to the Green Drinks Tokyo Xmas Special!
- This article was translated by Ken from the original Japanese post by YOSHI (Dec 14, 2009) (more…)
