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Amazing Buddha Sculpture Made from Dead Bugs

Inhabitat has quite an eye for fascinating and beautiful green design, and this find has a bit of the bizarre in it as well: a Buddha statue that appears to be made from jewels, but is actually comprised of 20,000 dead bugs.
The statue, located in a community hall in the Gumma prefecture of Japan, took [...]

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Bono Helps Tokyo Turn Landfill into a Forest

Tokyo is in the process of turning a former garbage-covered artificial island into a vast new “Sea Forest”, an 88,000-square-meter park connected to the city center by a road tunnel. Architect Tadao Ando devised the project as a way to aid in Tokyo’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics. The transformation has been underway since [...]

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Japanese Group Uses ‘Toilet Poems’ to Save Paper

“Love the toilet”. Would seeing that message above the roll of toilet paper in a public bathroom make you use less paper? Kooky as it is, a Japanese group campaigning to save toilet paper as part of the country’s fight against global warming believes that ‘toilet poems’ can inspire conservation.
According to a study done by [...]

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Japan Will Monitor Greenhouse Gases from Space

Japan will begin monitoring greenhouse gases around the world via satellite starting later this month. Officials hope that the data collected will help combat climate change, particularly as the satellite gathers info for developing countries that are not currently tracking their own emissions.
From Yahoo News:
The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), to be launched on January [...]

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Japan Harnesses Energy from Commuters’ Footsteps

Two of Tokyo’s biggest train stations have begun experimenting with harnessing the energy generated by the footsteps of millions of commuters who pass through each and every day. Special floor tiles installed in front of the ticket turnstiles trigger a small vibration that can be stored as energy every time a passenger steps on them.
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Japanese Government Urges Citizens to Eat Locally

Did you know that Japan only produces 40% of the food it consumes? That is the lowest percentage among developed nations and puts the island nation at considerable risk amid a global food shortage. That’s why Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is getting serious about encouraging citizens to buy and grow their food [...]

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