Episode 357

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8th Mar 2022

Can We Live with 'Just Enough'? Lessons from Edo Japan Sustainability | Author Azby Brown

Azby Brown is a popular, knowledgeable guest on Seek Sustainable Japan- it's an honor to have him catch us up on his book Just Enough before its re-release in April this year. https://azbybrown.com

At the beginning of the talk, Azby gives us an update from his work as the lead researcher and writer for Safecast org, on the situation in the Ukraine and the situation at the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power station under Russia's attack.

Azby then introduces the project in Chiba he will talk about at the #MinkaSummit event in April and then we go over some of my favorite key takeaways of his soon to be published paperback update to the original he wrote 10 years ago, Just Enough.

00:00 Welcome

01:20 Safecast Org Updates Ukraine

04:40 Nuclear Power Plant Risks

08:40 Ukraine Aid Links

10:20 Minka Summit Talk

12:00 Chiba Kuramochi Project

16:00 Kominka style

17:10 Circular Economy Edo

21:00 Regenerative Industry

21:40 Satoyama Regenerates

25:00 Rebounding Edo Society

28:00 Repair and Use Longer

33:00 House as Resource Bank

38:00 Modern Relevance of Edo style

41:00 Kamikatsu Zero-Waste Hotel

41:40 Value Based Consumer

44:40 Japan's Forests & Wood

46:40 Zen Mentality & Philosophy

49:00 Shinto Nature Deities

52:00 Profitable sustainability

56:00 Sustainable Brand

57:00 Stronger Community

58:00 Self-Care Needed

This book was considered ten years ahead of its time and still has countless examples of how people in the Edo era in Japan (1603~) came back from environmental crisis using innovation, infrastructure and policy which restored the environment and sustained a population of 30 million people within 200 years.

Pre-order the Paperback JUST ENOUGH: https://amzn.to/3CbBpjH

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Azby Brown talk playlist on Seek Sustainable Japan:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20FkJOvlC8FHOX0F8Ox5j-PT

Azby Brown profile on https://azbybrown.com/about/

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JJWalsh is a Hiroshima-based sustainability-focused consultant & content creator who hosts the weekly "Seeking Sustainability LIVE in Japan" talkshow and podcast - interviews with "Good People doing Great Things to keep People-Planet-Profit in balance."

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