Technology contributes to reduce food waste –
16 apps helping companies and consumers prevent food waste
I would like to see these kind of apps in Japan as well.
Technology contributes to reduce food waste –
16 apps helping companies and consumers prevent food waste
I would like to see these kind of apps in Japan as well.
I did an online simulation game to take care of a family in Africa as an assignment when I took an online undergrad course. I killed at least two family members by my decision (not enough money to take them to hospital after spending money to education etc) every time when I played.
Simulation is not real. However, it gives the opportunity to use imagination to feel and think. I feel we have been focus to be “logical” rather than “emotional” in education and business. But if education is not only sharing knowledge (cognitive), we can also talk about “emotional – how you feel?” (heart) even in adult education.
Thank you to the participants (UBC 20 ESL students (intermediate level)/1 ESL teacher/ 1 undergrad student/ 1 grad student/ 2 staff and 3 participants from outside of UBC) for joining the workshop!! I did not expect that many participants could join. I enjoyed to listen to the participants’ own experiences and think about how I could do better job as a facilitator.
Sustainability Harmonist Workshop – Oct 15, 2018 – PowerPoint is used.
We had two group discussions:
It seemed it was difficult to find own Ikigai in 10 minutes as well as the answer of how to make harmonized community/ies.
Sustainability and Ikigai themselves have vague and broad meanings. I could have mentioned and explained the connection among sustainability, ikigai, individual psychology, and community clearly in the beginning and with examples for some concepts. It might be helpful for the participants in their group discussion. At the same time, it might limit the freedom for participants to think about the concepts by their way? As a facilitator I am not sure how much control I should have.
As you see the participants’ list and photo above, the participants had variety of background even though majority was ESL students. I think I got used to talk about sustainability with people who already have experience in the field and community, it was fresh to talk with people who have just started to think about the topic. Some of the ESL students are staying Vancouver for short-term. One of them told me he did not feel lonely here because he has been here too short to feel lonely. I could ask him the questions 1)how strong he feels connection to the community here and 2)if he cares about the community here or not.
I wish this workshop (the concepts) helps or makes sense especially, when people have hard time to sustain who they are.
I would like to improve the workshop/my facilitator skill with feedback from the participants. I had definitely different kind of experience in the workshop as a facilitator compared with the workshop in the classroom of our grad program whom I regularly meet and share the knowledge about sustainability. I hope I can do more workshops like this to different groups in different places.
The article is written by based on the report of the survey “Student perceptions of sustainability in higher education – An international survey” by the National Union of Students in August, 2018.
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This is one example of harmonized community.
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/191083998462856/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARCDqxOMtMftZ4LKIabofPUEABTLXWtbfhu0wz_GsCfWaDW1iJaL05L3TTZH3yZ64KWjbOtBDs4pIqIj&hc_ref=ARSx5ezdMvNZnQK_mXYK4joseBmj7pqaOmnkjfC4Ju1uAon47mmp4B63Giw9V8ZsrlQ&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARDqMPaY7BQaL63kF1vGq_S2DQs8IIDNdZ4osUoy64iHJ2TkmCf68hXn2i7PrIFVlFyppdwwCIkhJxrUB9mpr4Z2zkQ3v1G8P0DrdKmMhnUslrRSdGgQEik_jGC9viDAcoaCCPKg2mNhWscmMZq7ueMruwJjVkTZiz2aRX2I9mrIveisKNs2wyA-CGkyP5zr3VaZQcBe6v5GjL5vTqUK8MyIIv0uG_-n8byP5yQlASJ6NdtB2BE
Article from Guardians:
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals
Japanese Article: 「生きがい」の構造について 熊倉弘
PDF article (Japanese) available: https://iwate-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=12132&item_no=1&page_id=13&block_id=21
This article is summarized the concept of Ikigai from various of resources even though the resources are published almost late 60’s and early 70’s the “ikigai” boom happened in Japan.
Japanese article: 生きがい考(3) : なぜ生きがいだったのか生きがい考 ー 神田信彦
Details about article and PDF form (only in Japanese) are below site:
https://bunkyo.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&page_id=29&block_id=40&item_id=3002&item_no=1
This article examines historical circumstance of “Ikigai theory boom” in around 70’s in Japan. This article shows everyone has ikigai consciously/unconsciously all time.