On November 1, Ginza Farm celebrated the rice harvest. The event began at 9 am on a Sunday morning and drew a crowd including children, par....
11 Nov 9:02 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

An interesting blog post about Tokyo’s environmental paradoxes by Piers Fawkes of PSFK, organizer of the Pure Living Tokyo idea salon las....
11 Nov 1:00 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

With cooler nights, fall is definitely upon us. I took these photos in the first week of November to document the passing of the seasons on....
10 Nov 9:05 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

One of my neighbors tends an interesting garden on the edge of a small street leading to the JR station. I previously blogged about her spr....
9 Nov 9:06 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Several months ago Marui opened up another department store in Shinjuku san chome, along with at least three other existing ones and retail....
9 Nov 9:03 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Last weekend was Nodai’s 118th annual fall festival: full of plants for sale, silly costumes, various pageants, ethnic food from world st....
8 Nov 4:45 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Thanks to a great Japan eco-blog Kurashi, I learned about an Akihabara maids organization called Licolita that is involved in public envir....
7 Nov 9:15 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

There was an interesting article about how East Japan Railways has installed special blue LED lights in all 29 stations of the central Yama....
7 Nov 9:09 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Michelle Obama has brought beekeeping to the White House, and the New York Times has a lovely three minute video story about this activity ....
6 Nov 11:00 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Diane Durston of the Portland Japanese Garden invited me last week to visit the Nezu Museum, which recently reopened. The art collection o....
6 Nov 9:12 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The City of San Francisco has created a cool program encouraging people to adopt at San Francisco street tree for Christmas instead of purc....
5 Nov 11:00 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent]