Sustainability & Innovation in Edo Period Japan | Baths-Farms-Toilets | Azby Brown #ssl178
Channel: Seek Sustainable Japan | JJWalsh
Date: 2021-01-21

Azby Brown is an author, researcher, designer, and academic who has studied Japan's Edo period for secrets into how we can apply the philosophy of that successful era to a more sustainable life, society and business in modern Japan.
https://azbybrown.com/

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01:18 Story of writing "Just Enough"
03:00 Sustainability + Edo Period Research
04:40 Focus on Connections between people-planet-profits
06:00 Indigenous cultures farming similarities worldwide
06:30 Cascading Farm Design - Nature's Flow
07:25 Meaning of "Just Enough"
08:00 Avoiding excess + living life undisturbed by the unnecessary
09:45 Shifting perceptions of necessary 
10:23 Lack of personal freedoms, but good social bonds
11:52 Governance
12:35 Tanaka Yuko-sensei's Edo-period research
14:15 Wealth + Power Gap - not economically sustainable
15:00 Doing simply & beautifully - not doing without
16:00 Solutions from within Japan
16:30 Multiform solution
17:16 Sento Public Bath example
19:50 Sento: dealing with issues of water+energy+hygene+social+economic in combination
25:00 Refining ideas over time - reassess and improve
26:00 Gyosui - naturally heating water from the sun for tea and baths
27:00 Toilet: Reusing and creating value from human waste
30:00 Economic value of human waste
32:40 Drawings by Azby
33:20 Research thanks to efforts of many others
34:00 Site visits, research materials of others, museum information, talking with experts
35:00 Inspired by Eric Sloane
36:30 Manuals with illustrations from the government to communities
37:00 Government commissioned researchers to publish books on agriculture
37:45 Waka- aural culture of passing on useful information
39:00 Important farming + irrigation + nature (watersheds) knowledge
42:30 Irrigation channels still exist from Edo-era
43:40 Full use of all byproducts of rice
47:00 Straw as important building material with fermented clay
48:20 Kamado efficient cooking system
50:00 Kamado oven use possibilities in Zambia
50:58 Appropriate technology is not always the most high-tech
52:00 YUI cooperative labor practices
55:21 Susowake - Distribution of Excess to others in the community
57:00 Local currency idea
57:57 Long-term use of buildings and reuse of materials should be brought back
58:30 Buildings are our stories and shared identity
59:20 Traditional Japanese carpentry/architecture

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