Episode 445

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12th Jun 2023

Sustainable Japan Talk - May 2023 Short-Takes with Tove & Joy | IKEA, Organic Tea, Ocean Plastics..

Japan Sustainability-focused business, events and topics worth talking about for May 2023 with Tove and Joy- two sustainability-focused entrepreneurs in different areas of Japan. VIDEO of our talk here: https://www.youtube.com/live/XlcwndaoQE8?feature=share

TOPICS TIMESTAMPS:

00:54 G7 Tea Factory Gen

02:33 Enteleco Launch Event

05:38 Fukuoka Trip CleanUp

06:14 ChangeOrg Campaign

07:20 IKEA sustainability in action

08:40 DEI Women in Management IKEA

10:40 3rd-Party Sustainable Certifications

12:00 Resale, Repairs, Sustainable Strategy

13:30 Clear Targets for Sustainability

14:10 Transparency Words to Gap & Trust

16:40 Beach CleanUp Volunteering & Raising Awareness

17:25 Plastic-Free Oyster Solutions Abigail Barrows

18:30 Bioplastics Progress in Japan

22:35 DEI Event (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion)

25:00 Women Leaders in Japanese companies

26:00 Douglas Brooks Japan Wooden Boatbuilding

27:00 Refugee Empowerment International (REI) June Events

28:48 Hiroshima MOCA sustainable art

30:30 Thanks for joining everyone! See you next time!

LINKS

@changeorg

== Petition on Change.Org to ask Hiroshima's govt to go back to bamboo and stop using plastics in the oyster industry (please sign, share and comment, thanks!) :

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-use...

== Nature- Breaking Down Japan's Approach to Bioplastics https://www.nature.com/articles/d4247...

== Douglas Brooks talk on traditional Japanese wooden boatbuilding traditions and preservation:   

 • Preserving the Ar...  

== REI - Refugee Empowerment International June 2023 Events: good fun for a great cause: https://rei-npo.org/activities/

== Sustainable Strategies, Targets and How they are doing at IKEA- "Sustainability Everyday"

https://www.ikea.com/jp/en/this-is-ik...

== Beach CleanUp Fukuoka (FFS) fishing plastic and some oyster tubes from Hiroshima https://www.youtube.com/live/bQRG-5YM...

Tove Kinooka is a social-entrepreneur co-founder of Global Perspectives KK in Tokyo- Tove joins the studio from her home in Yokohama https://www.globalperspectives.biz/

Joy Jarman-Walsh (jjwalsh) is a social-entrepreneur founder of InboundAmbassador co. and co-founder of GetHiroshima. Joy joins the studio from her home in Hiroshima.

https://www.inboundambassador.com/

Music thanks to the talents of Casey Bean @TheBeanpod podcaster, musician, educator, forest gardener and family-guy based in Ishikawa, Japan: https://caseybean.bandcamp.com/

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Seek Sustainable Japan launched in 2020 to entertain and inspire us all, sparking ideas through discussions about Japanese culture, travel & traditions with insiders and experts across Japan. All of the guests on the show are creating a more sustainable [i.e. better people-planet-profits balance] Japan in some way through their work, projects and way of life.
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Hi I'm Joy (JJ) originally from Hawaii & long-time Hiroshima-jin (jin=person). My work and content is focused on sustainability & how we can make better choices to balance the needs of people, planet and profits in our lives, work and travel. Join me as I talk with wonderful people and visit interesting places in Japan.
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