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6.30Mon 2025

Cultivating the Future with Carbon Cultivation] Materials and Fuels are "Growing" in the Age of Carbon Cultivation

Click here to read the previous article "Cultivating the Future with Carbon Cultivation" What is the "Create" Idea to Save the Earth? To stop global warming, we need to use carbon [...]

6.27Fri 2025

The Bakufu's Challenge and Failure to Achieve a Nationwide Unified Forestry Policy: Reading "Edo Gaku of Forests" by the Tokugawa Forestry History Institute (Part 2)

*Part 1 is here: Blow to Local Forest Resources through Distribution Control by Edo's Imperial Procurement Merchants Read "Edo Gaku of Forests" by Tokugawa Forestry History Institute ( [...])

6.26Thu 2025

Support for forest-derived carbon credit creation and return of profits to forest owners New regional co-creation model through collaboration between NTT West Group's Co-Design Institute for Regional Development and invox

The NTT West Group's Co-Design Institute for Regional Development has recently announced that invox, a CO2 emissions calculation system [...]...

6.26Thu 2025

Industrial Initiative Activities as a Means of Implementing a Platinum Society: A Comprehensive Review of Forest Circular Economy (6)

How can we realize a platinum society (a society that is sustainable and prosperous for the planet and enables self-fulfillment for all people)? The platinum structure [...].

6.25Wed 2025

# Daily Life of a Forestry Girl: Hokkaido] Communicating the preciousness of time spent in contact with forests and trees

Hokkaido boasts the largest forest area of any prefecture in Japan and has a thriving forestry industry. In particular, Abies sachalinensis and Ezo spruce produced in Hokkaido are light and easy to process [...].

6.24Tue 2025

Forest-based manufacturing and value for the public good: Making the "whole watershed" of biomass a growth field

The woody biomass business is expected to be a core industry for the next generation to realize a sustainable society. The spread of woody biomass requires a forest supply of resources [...].

6.23Mon 2025

Local Production for Local Consumption of Wood, Wooden Towns, and Woody Biomass to Enrich the Region: The Challenge of Fully Utilizing Forest Resources in Western Toyama Prefecture (2)

The western region of Toyama Prefecture is surrounded by clean water and rich forests. The region is now making the most of its bounty, and is close to being self-sufficient in resources [...].

6.20Fri 2025

Oji HD and Hoshino Resort collaborate for horizontal recycling of used paper hand towels from hotels, etc.

Oji Holdings and its group company Oji Nepia have teamed up with Hoshino Resort to provide used [...] used by hotels and restaurants.

6.20Fri 2025

New Forestry Potential Opened Up by Biomass-Producing, Highly Efficient Fast-growing Trees [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].

The Support Program for the Formation of Places for Co-Creation, centered on TUAT, promotes "carbon cultivation bases that challenge the limits of carbon negativity" [...].

6.20Fri 2025

Reforestation and anti-hay fever measures with low-pollen cedar from Iwate Prefecture Takeei Forestry employees and local residents hold a tree-planting ceremony in Hanamaki.

Takeei Forestry recently held its second tree-planting ceremony at a clear-cut site in a company-owned forest in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture. The company's employees planted a small amount of low-pollen pollen from within the prefecture [...].

6.19Thu 2025

Survey on Wooden Condominiums: 1] Sei-katsu-sha place importance on housing performance and comfort, but there are challenges in promoting environmental friendliness.

The Platinum Initiative Network's vision is to "convert new buildings of 9 stories or less to wood construction and wood materials by 2050" [...].

6.18Wed 2025

Distribution Control by Edo Imperial Procurement Merchants Blows to Local Forest Resources: Reading "Edo Studies of Forests" by Tokugawa Forestry History Institute (Part 1)

I read Conrad Tatman's book and found that although Japan's forests were almost destroyed by overcutting in the early Edo period, our ancestors [...].

6.17Tue 2025

Direct Economic Effects of Full Utilization of Forest Resources Estimated at 4.7 Trillion Yen in 2050 - Forest Circular Economy (5)

Assuming the development of the forest circular economy described so far, we have estimated the supply and demand of woody biomass and its effects. Biomass chemistry and wood [...].

6.16Mon 2025

Webinar to Commemorate the Launch of "Forest Circular Economy" (Webinar)
The Future Created by Forest Recycling
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 13:00-17:00

In this special seminar commemorating the first issue of "Forest Circular Economy," various people who will accelerate this "Forest Circular Economy" will present topics and hold discussions.

6.14Sat 2025

Supporting Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Using Forest Space "Forests and Futures Sustainability Award 2025" Seeking Next-Generation Business Ideas

The Forest and the Future" is a general incorporated association, and the "Forest and the Future Sustainable Award 2025" is a business idea based on the theme of "the spatial value of forest [...]...

6.13Fri 2025

Toward "Profitable Forestry" through Whole-Timber Purchase Stockyards and Efficient, Labor-Saving Operations: The Challenge of Fully Utilizing Forest Resources in Western Toyama Prefecture (1)

The sound of engines of high-performance forestry machines echoes through the forests of Satoyama, where a single operator handles everything from felling to pruning and ball-cutting [...]...

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