Can We Live with 'Just Enough'? Lessons from Edo Japan Sustainability | Author Azby Brown

Azby Brown is a popular, knowledgeable guest on Seek Sustainable Japan- it's an honor to have him catch us up on his book Just Enough before its re-release in April this year. https://azbybrown.com At the beginning of the talk, Azby gives us an update from his work as the lead researcher and writer for Safecast org, on the situation in the Ukraine and the situation at the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power station under Russia's attack. Azby then introduces the project in Chiba he will talk about at the #MinkaSummit event in April and then we go over some of my favorite key takeaways of his soon to be published paperback update to the original he wrote 10 years ago, Just Enough. 00:00 Welcome 01:20 Safecast Org Updates Ukraine 04:40 Nuclear Power Plant Risks 08:40 Ukraine Aid Links 10:20 Minka Summit Talk 12:00 Chiba Kuramochi Project 16:00 Kominka style 17:10 Circular Economy Edo 21:00 Regenerative Industry 21:40 Satoyama Regenerates 25:00 Rebounding Edo Society 28:00 Repair and Use Longer 33:00 House as Resource Bank 38:00 Modern Relevance of Edo style 41:00 Kamikatsu Zero-Waste Hotel 41:40 Value Based Consumer 44:40 Japan's Forests & Wood 46:40 Zen Mentality & Philosophy 49:00 Shinto Nature Deities 52:00 Profitable sustainability 56:00 Sustainable Brand 57:00 Stronger Community 58:00 Self-Care Needed This book was considered ten years ahead of its time and still has countless examples of how people in the Edo era in Japan (1603~) came back from environmental crisis using innovation, infrastructure and policy which restored the environment and sustained a population of 30 million people within 200 years. Pre-order the Paperback JUST ENOUGH: https://amzn.to/3CbBpjH (https://amzn.to/3CbBpjH) #azbybrown #sustainablejapan #justenough #seeksustainablejapan #interview #author #writer Azby Brown talk playlist on Seek Sustainable Japan: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20FkJOvlC8FHOX0F8Ox5j-PT (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20FkJOvlC8FHOX0F8Ox5j-PT) Azb