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Shotengai: Shopping Streets and Bicycles in Japan

Shotengai: Shopping Streets and Bicycles in Japan

Mid morning is rush hour here in the south of Osaka, but there is no honking. Traffic jams are more comic than stressful…
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Patrick M. Lydon
Lessons from a Japanese Village with Cute Organic Lawnmowers

Lessons from a Japanese Village with Cute Organic Lawnmowers

What answers might this tiny village at the foot of the Japanese Alps hold for an environmentally-sane future?
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Patrick M. Lydon
A City, Designed by Trees

A City, Designed by Trees

Awake a few hours earlier than necessary, we are on bicycles heading through urban infill, in a part of town that used to be Osaka Bay…
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Patrick M. Lydon
Building an Ecology of One

Building an Ecology of One

Our systems of production and consumption have become so far separated from ecological reality, that sustainability and human well being…
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Patrick M. Lydon
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