Great topics in today's chat: renewable energy, sustainable life & business solutions, fabulous plantbased food, wonderful hotels in London, Hiroshima & Fukuoka putting people & planet forward, Ideas from London to promote EV's & ultra-low emissions #talkshow www.youtube.com/live/dpTUQC5...

🥒🫑🍆KYŌTO'S CINDERELLA🥕🥦🥔 One of Kyōto's most popular snacks for Tanabata is Matsuya-Tōbee's 'Tamaori-hime' (珠玉織姫), small balls of sugar and rice dough. The sweets come in 5 colours, and although available all year round sell out quickly during the Star Festival🎋 #Kyoto

Good sunny solar day today! 🌞 😎

Europeans are buying Teslas even though they dislike Elon Musk - I completely understand this as the Teslas are great cars with decent resale value, but when I had chance, it felt better to get Honda EV - great car, but still new & unproven on reliability & resale, also limited availability #EVs

Thanks everyone for watching & sharing 😺 WOW 1.8Million views of my Seek Sustainable Japan channel! I hope it's doing some good w focus on 'good people doing great things across Japan' insights on culture, history, life, rural travel & business that's better for people & planet #seeksustainablejapan

Cloudy ☁️ day yesterday so we needed to buy 4.4kwh from the grid- but over the month we will likely make much more solar energy than we buy: □ Power consumption 11.8 kWh □ Purchased electricity amount 4.4 kWh □ Amount of electricity sold 0.0 kWh □ Total amount of electricity generated 15.2 kWh

Saw the famous clifftop temple along the Hiroshima coastline yesterday - it was cloudy & a bit touristy but still interesting to visit this famous place near Tomonoura youtube.com/shorts/1N3Hx...

Japan's spent fuel nuclear waste storage almost full - most at 90% capacity & no clear path for more storage or future is a huge reason to invest heavily now in solar & wind, geothermal in Japan instead of spending billions to increase nuclear power or depend more on fossil fuels @japantimes.co.jp

Fabulous vegan okonomiyaki tonight in Onomichi - tiny place with wine sommelier who runs shop - original style, he puts ratatouille in middle as it's cooking, so many lovely flavors 😋 youtube.com/shorts/9zVjA...

Great to be here to see this Onomichi Gion Matsuri tonight- famous for the Omikoshi portable shrine racing among local groups Impressive how they carry that heavy shrine so fast 😳 #festival #japan #hiroshima youtube.com/shorts/TIlfV...

So fun to be in Onomichi Hiroshima tonight to see this Gion festival Omikoshi Parade & look forward to the after dark festivities too on the water youtube.com/shorts/Og7wT...

Another rooftop solar energy report of yesterday when we had very heavy rain all day and dark skies so it is amazing we were able to self-generate any power, but we did generate 3.3 even with dark skies during the day and no sunshine breaks

At last the front overgrown tree is coming down today! Praying for safety of workers & no damage 🙏

Let's go hunting together every once in a while. And let's savor the victory together. #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls

Soccer great Kazuyoshi Miura will play his 42nd ⁠season of professional soccer — and enter his 60s with his boots on — after extending his loan deal with third-tier side Fukushima United until June 2027. 👉 ebx.sh/eFpIi7

NYT bix unraveling Honda's all-electric pledge 😩 US reverse of support for zero-emission cars, battery manufacturing, subsidies & charging infrastructure GM also hurt & so many US jobs cut - horrible for JP + US economy as well as QOL for people - EV's are future, but now hybrid boom 😢 @nytimes.com

Typhoon 🌀 causing delays to visitors traveling to Hiroshima from Kyoto-Osaka-Tokyo today, but around us we're having light rain ☔ only & no delays on local trains 🚂 #japan #travel

Zero-waste breakfast this morning in Hiroshima station 🚉 Anderson bakery - everything reusable no single-use packaging necessary

Rainy day but HanaMizuKi dogwoods are happy 😁 & it's cooler 🌧️☔

Heavy rain all day yesterday but still most of our energy needs self-sufficient & bought small amount from grid & we didn't have any excess energy to sell to the grid When we do buy energy we signed up with renewable energy broker MINNA-NO-DENKI so we are 100% RE powered ⚡ Sign-up: minden.co.jp

All the new builds in my neighborhood are completely cement and rocks, no greenery whatsoever. Those houses are replacing homes that had multiple trees in a modest sized garden. The difference in temps is very obvious now.

🍘👹A CRACKER TO AVOID THE PLAGUE🤲🍘 Beside Kamigoryō-jinja (上御霊神社) is a small store that sells one type of confection only...a simple, sweet cracker. Like the shrine itself, the crackers have a deep connection to the origins of the Gion Matsuri (祇園祭). #Kyoto #京都

AI could transform our economy in the long run. But in the short term, AI could also eliminate millions of jobs and create massive disruption for working families. We shouldn't wait until people lose their paychecks and health care to take action.

Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy. Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

Japan also needs to tap the brakes on new Data AI centers until economic, environmental, safety and societal benefits vs harm can be assessed

Gary cat 😺🐈 like 'his' new pillow

Great lunch today at a wonderful new vegan burger place near the A-bomb dome side of peace park Hiroshima - so yummy 😋 and great cakes, noodles, sushi, drinks & ice-cream too! maps.app.goo.gl/ncWgA3hBUReU...

They only eat a few of the couple of hundred species. I occasionally get them in the trees in my backyard, the leaves are pretty straight. 😊🐨

His wagasa are the best. Photographed him years ago, just after the opening of the Kyoto Ritz Carlton. As he also designed and made all the lighting there. All of which is inspired by and made with similar techniques.

Oooh just got a new WAGASA & I think it's the nicest one I've gotten to date Takes a month to get it from this shop after ordering cause they're made to order by locals craftspeople - with a nice cloth carrying case HIYOSHIYA is the shop: Kyoto family biz for 100+ yrs youtube.com/shorts/7fpbZ...

This is a rainy week, but still solar and battery covering our energy needs and even tiny bit of our excess clean energy is being sold to the grid - nice to have daily stats like this sent to my email daily :) #cleanenergy #japan You can get your own Japan CleanEnergy quote from eco-ene.com/solor/

"Nothing is gained from war, everything ends up in ashes'". Not exactly complicated, is it? If peace were as profitable as war is for the majority of the governing class, we'd all be doing that instead.

NEW: As anti-foreigner rhetoric and disinformation continues to rise in Japan, over 600 protestors took part in a "NO to Hate!" rally in front of Japan's National Diet on June 21st. Their message: foreign residents are neighbors and co-workers, not a problem to be managed.

Remembering 82 day battle of Okinawa 81 yrs ago (200K died) @japantimes.co.jp A 15 yr old 'mobilized student' survived, became a teacher & taught peace education: 'Nothing is gained from war, everything ends up in ashes' Yasuko Onaga (96) www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06...

Some were also started apparently to help feed the koalas that started arriving in the 1980s as part of diplomatic exchanges. I came across these ones in YumenoShima Park near Tokyo Bay on one of my walks.

A Black woman built the infrastructure that keeps the world talking. This is Black history. Her legacy lives in every call you make.

This old Japanese house was completely destroyed by the 2011 tsunami, but it was rebuilt last year using as many of the washed-away original materials as could be recovered. I was responsible for applying the urushi finish to the interior sliding doors known as obi-do.

Great talk this morning about history, culture, trees & indigenous knowledge in architecture design of memorials, cemeteries and dark tourism sites in Japan & Australia www.youtube.com/live/s7tZqOw...

Join us this morning on the LIVE talkshow SEEK SUSTAINABLE JAPAN as I talk with an architect-designer who teaches students about Japan design with a focus on memorials in Australia & Singapore - ex: Peace Memorial Park design by Kenzo Tange #seeksustainablejapan www.youtube.com/live/s7tZqOw...

Kristina @sugalenin (IG) has great passion for developing lesser known Japan travel routes in the Setouchi area she calls the BLUE LINE of Hyogo-Hiroshima-Okayama-Kagawa-Ehime instead of GOLDEN TRIANGLE of Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto - YES sounds great! #sustainable #travel #japan youtube.com/shorts/lEsdT...

Rainy day solar + battery system stats still good! :) Excited to find out next month how much less than usual 25,000 yen a month electricity bill we will see - would rather pay off solar than pay for fossil fuel from utility FIT (feed-in-tarriff) should also see increase #solar #sustainable #japan

Commentary: Claims that recent immigrants do not assimilate are challenged by research showing they often achieve strong economic mobility and social integration at rates higher than earlier immigrant waves.

On the 80th memorial, I read a Dutch POW in Nagasaki's diary during WW2 who said he will never bow to the evil military leaders who abused them, but felt so much empathy for normal Japanese who were similarly living in horrible circumstances without freedom - so powerful that he could differentiate

Shohei Tsuiki, who survived the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 at the age of 18, still remembers brief but unforgettable exchanges he had during World War II with a detained Dutch national.

Wonderful to see talented writer Hannah Kirshner featured in @japantimes.co.jp doing wonderful work renovating an Akiya into a lovely community space to host events highlight local products, food & craftsmanship My chat w Hannah: www.youtube.com/live/YSS_7SU... www.japantimes.co.jp/community/20...

No mention in this article of the Korean civilians who were forced to act as comfort women during WW2 or the Chinese civilians attacked by Japanese troops with poison gas or POWs tortured & killed by Japan soldiers. This is compensation for Japanese civilians only?

ICYMI: From overwhelming omakase to Instagram-driven itineraries, these are the biggest travel regrets people have told us they have about Japan. Here's how to avoid falling into the same traps.

Korea's hangul alphabet was designed so "a wise man could learn it in a morning, and a fool in 10 days." Yet Confucian scholars fought it for 450 years, dismissing it as "vulgar" and "women's script." How that "vulgar script" pushed Chinese characters out - and why Japanese didn't follow suit:

A virtual energy network allows consumers without solar panels or a shortage of solar output to buy directly from those with plenty. #environment #sustainability

Japan picks up their first win of the 2026 #FIFAWorldCup and eliminate Tunisia in the process 🇯🇵🇹🇳