Our Monthly Sustainability focused talk by two sustainable business & tourism consultants in Japan- Tove Kinooka and Joy JJWalsh

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:30 No Snow Mt.Fuji
• 02:00 Climate Change Gov
• 03:00 Fabric KK B Corp
• 06:25 WE EXIST docu-series
• 08:40 Gender-Focused Investing
• 11:00 Allies for Diversity
• 13:20 BentonHomestead on CNBC
• 14:40 CapGemini IT event
• 16:00 Tomoko Koyama Meterologist
• 17:41 Yuko Nakahata SustainaSeed
• 19:24 Same-Sex Marriage Legal
• 20:00 Sustainable Miyajima Tour Project
• 21:55 Wild Deer & Tourism
• 23:09 Musubi-Kiln Sustainable Biz
• 24:15 Good English Copy Value
• 24:45 Vegan Osaka
• 25:50 Toothpaste Packaging
• 28:28 Organic Fertilizer Experiment
• 30:00 Enjoy Autumn colors, fruit, veggies

== Upcoming Events & Talk Links ==

= Nov 9 to 30 REI Refugee Empowerment International Walkathon Event: https://rei-npo.org/en/event/stride-of-hope-walking-challenge/

= Dec 5 BCCJ Event on Gender Focused Investments: https://bccjapan.com/events/unlocking-japans-potential-with-gender-focused-investment/

= CapGemini IT company event: https://www.capgemini.com/about-us/

= Sustainaseed: https://en.sustainaseed.net/

= Musubi Kiln: https://musubikiln.com/

= Benton Homestead get a mention on CNBC @bentonhomestead @CNBC https://bentonhomestead.com/press

Watch the CNBC episode here: https://youtu.be/1F637H2yUlo?si=xvKT48MHI2DNZdtU

= Order your vegan cheeses and meat alternatives at VEGAN OSAKA

https://www.veganosaka.com/en/collections/vegan-cheeses

Felicity Tillack is a filmmaker based in Kyoto Japan now working on a documentary series about inclusion and diversity of the LGBTQ+ community in Japan. Tiffany Rossdale produces and stars in this documentary-series titled WE EXIST a focus on LGBTQ+ lifestyles and issues in Japan.

Please Support the film "We Exist" via kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wexistjapan/we-exist-japan-episode-2-lgbtq-documentary?ref=project_link

Watch the live talk with Felicity and Tiffany on YouTube

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Wonderful news that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb Survivor HIBAKUSHA group called NIHON HIDANKYO won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but is a future without nuclear weapons a possibility?

Talking about stories from guiding in Hiroshima in combination with this news of the award and current stance of the Japanese PM Ishida about the reality of nuclear weapons and bans.

BGM thanks to Casey Bean - support his music on BandCamp

Tove Kinooka and JJWalsh are both sustainability focused consultants, educators, advisors and advocates for sustainable business and strategies in Japan. Tove is based in the Tokyo area around the capital and Joy is based in Hiroshima city.

Join us for the next live talk on Oct 28th at 8:30 Japan time: https://www.youtube.com/live/Fg2f4paE9f4?si=BoVYcQHsbqTrhhUl

Sept 2024 topics: Tove's One Young World Conference in Montreal & Montreal's Amazing Fruit & Vegetable Markets | Joy's talk with Dr. Donna Weeks & Japan's Top-3 for the Prime Minister Job- how Sustainable are their policies? | Joy's talk with Emi Kaiwa about sustainable tourism development | Tove's work on resilience at the workplace at the Conrad hotel Tokyo | Joy's work at the Ogasawara islands nature reserve article on Dolphin identification

00:00 Welcome to September Short-Takes

00:28 One Young World 2024

06:47 Japan's Top-3 for PM

07:40 Shijiro Koizumi

10:05 Carbon Tax

12:00 Shigeru Ishiba

13:40 Sanae Takaichi

16:19 Montreal Marche Market

19:58 Ogasawara island article

22:09 Building Resilience at Conrad hotel

27:00 After-hour freedoms from work

29:00 Emi Kaiwa of GSTC

Tove & Joy are both focused on sustainable issues in our work across Japan doing consulting, training, advising & development for business, organizations and tourism.

Tove Kinooka: Enteleco Consulting: https://www.entelecoconsulting.com/

Joy Jarman-Walsh (jjwalsh): Inbound Ambassador: https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh

== BGM thanks to the talented Casey Bean - support his music on BandCamp ==

Global Sustainable Tourism Council manager Emi Kaiwa talks about her work in Africa with eco-tourism and strategies for how to train guides and managers in Japan to raise awareness of the value for travel that is in better balance with the needs of people, planet and profits.

#sustainabletourism #sustainabletravel #gstc #interview #tourism #travel #sustainable #sustainability #podcast #emikaiwa #DMO #destinationmanagement #certification #training

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Dr.Donna Weeks - longtime friend of Seek-Sustainable-Japan - gives insights on the top-7 candidates in Japan's LDP presidential election this month (who will be the country's prime minister) based on her 40 years of research and engagement with Japanese politics as a psephologist.

TOPICS covered in this talk:

• Politics & Sustainability?
• How did your political interest start?
• Prime Minister Kishida (67)
• Taro Kono (61)
• Shinjiro Koizumi (43)
• Takayuki Kobayashi (50)
• USA Education of candidates
• Japan gov relation to Harris vs Trump
• Yoko Kamikawa (70)
• Signaling with profile hobbies
• Tokyo Governor's Race
• Shinji Ishimaru surprise popularity
• The Social Contract
• Compulsory voting & engagement
• Article 9 Japan constitution
• Inspired by Seek Sustainable Japan
• Sanae Takaichi (63)
• Used to be easier to choose PM
• Toshimitsu Motegi (68)
• Shizo Abe's Legacy
• Shigeru Ishiba (67)
• Dr.Donna Weeks' choice
• PM must be popular
• Is Japan Silver Democracy?
• Koizumi's Circular Economy
• Transparency in Politics

Psephologist Dr. Donna Weeks has spent the last 40 years engaged with Japan's politics and peace issues and spent most of her career teaching and researching Japanese politics and peace studies at the Department of Political Science at Musashino University, Tokyo.

Now based back home in Brisbane, Australia, but still with an eye on Japanese politics Dr.Weeks can walk us through some of the candidates to look out for in this upcoming prime minister race in Tokyo, the recent Tokyo governor's race and most importantly what kind of politics we should be seeking.

Dr.Donna Weeks blog: https://psephyspix.blogspot.com/

on Instagram & threads: @psephyspix

BGM thanks to Casey Bean of The BeanPod Podcast - support Casey on BandCamp

== Get in touch with JJWalsh @jjwalsh @inboundambassador https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh ==

James Hollow and his team at Fabric have set up 10 great strategies in their workplace to give them first-hand insights that inform their consulting work & passion to live a more sustainable life. Read the MEDIUM article here.

== See all the short videos of James Hollow introducing these strategies here ==

So much of what James is putting in place at his office can be an inspiration for others struggling to see how they can reduce waste or encourage a circular mindset among staff.

I hope sharing these ideas will spark new ideas for you- please add your comments below.

Thanks for Casey Bean of The Beanpod podcast for the original music background - support Casey's music on BandCamp: https://caseybean.bandcamp.com/

#sustainable #business #strategy #japan #fabric #jameshollow #sustainablebusiness #businessstrategy #sustainability #podcast

Great to catch up after the summer break with fellow sustainability-focused consultant Tove Kinooka on our monthly series Sustainable Japan short-takes. It was a lively discussion of connections across topics that help us find better ways to balance the needs of people and planet with profits.

Read about this podcast on MEDIUM | See the video of this podcast on YouTube

BGM thanks to Casey Bean- support his musical journey on BandCamp