Asia · Eastern Asia
6 projects · 6 organizations
A Kyoto University-born app that turns litter-picking into a visible social movement, with over 440 million pieces of trash collected worldwide.
A Sapporo NPO pioneered Japan's model for citizen-owned wind power, letting ordinary residents pool savings to build turbines their communities actually own.
Customers of a power retailer founded by Buddhist priests in 2018 pay nothing extra, yet up to 2.5% of every bill goes to a local group they choose, and a 100% renewable plan is on offer.
more trees is a Japanese forest NGO, co-founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, that restores neglected timber forests with local communities.
A mountain town of 1,500 people sorts every scrap of trash into 45 categories at a communal station, recycling more waste than almost anywhere on Earth.
Extinct in the Japanese wild since 2003, the crested ibis now numbers in the hundreds again on Sado Island thanks to captive breeding and farmer-led habitat recovery.