Fair, circular solar panel
Biosphere Solar
Yamabushi llc.
The Japan Plant and Vegetation Research Institute (J-PRI) is uncovering the potential of vegetation in satoyama throughout Japan in order to realize an everyday life in which Japanese trees and unnamed wild plants are a natural part of our dining and living environment. The Institute has partner-affiliated mountains throughout Japan and aims to realize the valorization of Japan’s pristine edible plant resources, including the procurement of its own raw materials, and the accompanying revitalization of local industries, sustainable food supply, and new international competitiveness. It is a research institute that repeatedly goes into satoyama throughout Japan to collect, record, and present information, experimenting with delicious valorization.
Mountains of Japan are home to many native plants that are no less potent than foreign spices and herbs. For example, there are Japanese mountain peppercorns called futoukazura, Japanese cinnamon trees such as nikkei, and trees famous for their fragrance such as hinoki (cypress), sugi (cedar), and kuromoji (spicebush). However, there is a strong image that “mountain plant resources = building materials,” and there are almost no projects to review plant resources from the viewpoint of food. Nihon Kusaki Lab focuses on the value of such mountain plant resources and has added new value to them, producing products such as gin, syrups, and salt.
Hidakuma CEO
Every time I enter a forest, I’m reminded that these are treasure troves of diversity, not just sites of timber production. The creative work of Nihon Kusaki Lab is helping to revive the cultural wisdom and ingenuity involved in sourcing food from local woodlands, bringing human interest and activity back to the forest.
The Fossilizator
Néolithe
Another Moon
Kimchi and Chips
Recycling Service for Reusable Packaging Materials Aims to Reduce as Much Waste as Possible from Deliveries
88Base inc.
source of education
Takayama Shokai Corporation
Toothpaste Paper & Bamboo Toothbrush as a earth friendly choice
HOWA.INC / MiYO Organic
The “Neochromato Process”
Masaaki Sugimoto / Mitsuo Matsuda
True Circulation; death connects birth.
Group:Keio University SFC, BIOTA inc.
PACKBAGS
PACKBAGS
GOOD CYCLE BUILDING 001
ASANUMA CORPORATION + Nori Architects
MYCL Composite Project
Mycotech PTE LTD
Machi no Closet (Machi Closet)
Playblue inc.
Dayra
dayra collective project
AIRBUBBLE
ecoLogicStudio
NUNOUS
SEISHOKU CO., LTD. NUNOUS Div.
Organic Reusable Cloth Pads for Circular Economy and Access to Sustainable Menstruation for All
Eco Femme
ASO-DEKASUGI GUARDRAIL Project
Kyushu Universiry
Leap
Beyond Leather Materials
GURUGURU Radish
Oisix ra daichi Inc.
Trash Encyclopedia (“Trashpedia”)
Zero Waste Malaysia
Plant-Based Fiber Products
JU TIAN CLEANTECH CO., LTD.
Mikafi Roasting Platform
Mikafi GmbH
Landless Food – Regeneration of extinct flavor families via microalgae
individual
Japan’s first craft beer made from disaster stockpiles
CEO
Mineralloop
Individual
Mirai Instruments Labo
Solo
“Upcycled Speakers” in collaboration with art
Tina Audio Co., Ltd.
A drop in the Ocean
Individual
Aquaterrestrial Recolonization
College For Creative Studies, Detroit, United States / University of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas / AI.R Lab, United States
UP FOOD PROJECT
Koru Inc.
The Purhyphae Project
Fabricademy Barcelona
open material
openmaterial