Harper Foote | Environmental Sustainability in Japan 2016

A Potential Connection between Proximity and Sustainability

by Harper Foote | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized

This week we went on a field trip to a place called Hidenka Kobo (Non-Electric Studio) which is a small family-run business centered around the goal of creating a whole culture of life not based on electricity or mass production/consumption. From what we had heard...

There is no Distinction between Body and Soil

by Harper Foote | Jan 21, 2016 | Uncategorized

Something I have really been grappling with throughout our time thus far in Japan has been the extent to which agriculture can really be ‘natural.’ We started off the trip reading the book The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka in which he preaches...

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Welcome to thoughts, pictures and videos from St. Olaf students, as they study ideas and practices of community leadership around environmental sustainability in Japan. I've charged them with considering how Japanese communities provide answers to global environmental challenges, countering the popular image in the US that Asia’s relevance rests mostly as a source of environmental problems. Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak Associate Professor in Asian Studies & Political Science January, 2016

A Potential Connection between Proximity and Sustainability

There is no Distinction between Body and Soil

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