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Climate change and conflict: moving beyond the impasse — Last modified August 02, 2010 08:58

Climate change and conflict: moving beyond the impasse

Report from Tuvalu, a Country Sinking Below the Waves — Last modified June 15, 2010 13:51

Tuvalu -- a small country in the South Pacific Ocean known worldwide for images in the media of waves washing away at the roots of palm trees on its beaches -- is now regarded among Japanese people as a tragedy of an island nation sinking into the sea and synonymous with being a victim of global warming. On the other hand, people, particularly the skeptics of global warming, claim that "Tuvalu is not sinking, but even if it is sinking, it is not because of global warming."

Japanese Food Self-Sufficiency and Local Initiatives to Improve It — Last modified June 01, 2010 12:54

Written by Hiroyo Hasegawa (Japan for Sustainability).

Let's Increase Public Literacy on the Costs and Benefits of Action (and Inaction) on Climate Change — Last modified April 02, 2010 08:39

Let's Increase Public Literacy on the Costs and Benefits of Action (and Inaction) on Climate Change. Written by Junko Edahiro (Japan for Sustainability)

Other worlds are possible — Last modified December 16, 2009 09:24

What does human development look like in a world of climate change? That's the question which the _Up in Smoke?_ coalition have been asking since their first report back in 2004. Now, ahead of the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen, the coalition has brought together some of the developing world's leading thinkers, including Nobel Peace Prize winners Wangari Maathai (Kenya) and R.K. Pachauri (India), and economists Manfred Max-Neef (Chile) and Jayati Ghosh (India) to describe how they see their countries developing in a carbon-constrained world.

A Report on the Development of Environmental NGOs in China — Last modified November 30, 2009 15:23

Since July 2009 JFS has hosted a Chinese intern student for six months. Taking this as an opportunity to learn about the current situation of environmental protection in China, we asked him for a report on Chinese environmental NGOs, their development and challenges. Here is his report.

"Initiatives and Achievements of Local Governments in Japan" (No. 26): Building Sustainable Communities for the 30th Century --The Story of Ogawa, Japan's "Organic Town" — Last modified October 01, 2009 09:57

Ogawa is a town in Saitama Prefecture, about an hour by train from Tokyo, which is rich in natural beauty and surrounded by mountains, with some 35,000 residents calling it home. With its historic streets and the surrounding environment of "satoyama" woodlands (areas of rich biodiversity near human settlements in the countryside), the town is often called "Little Kyoto in Musashi" (Musashi is an old name for Saitama, and was part of what is now Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture).

Green revolution killed our water resources — Last modified September 22, 2009 09:30

The (tropical) *rainwater* could be likened to the air. The water like air is finite resource. But when it is allowed to remain as a *re cyclical resource*, it appears to be infinite. Unfortunately for us, the tropical water could be reduced in to a finite resource and subjected for *terminal consumption* under the aegis of GR.

Rolling back the climate change?: FORUM FOR TROPICAL WATER; Release-7 — Last modified September 11, 2009 07:33

Say NO to the suicidal "vulnerabilities and adaptation" paradigm. For a mass movement against the menace of killer climate,farmer's suicides (climate deaths) & the destitute out-migration (climate refugees).

Half Farmer, Half Something Else: "New" Lifestyles for an Eco-Friendly 21st Century — Last modified May 04, 2009 08:56

The global economic crisis, which began with the collapse of U.S. securities house Lehman Brothers in 2008, also triggered a series of business failures and job losses in Japan. The nation was already facing a number of problems.