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• Kyoto Animation in the 1800s

  
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  Historians have recently discovered that animation fandom has existed in Japan for much longer than originally expected, and that Kyoto Animation, the studio behind Haruhi, Lucky Star, and K-On! was originally founded shortly after the capital of Japan moved from Kyoto to Edo, currently known as Tokyo. At the time, ...
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• Failure of Super Greenhouse Gas Deal Raises Stakes in Copenhagen

  
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  At little noticed talks last week in Port Ghalib, Egypt, climate advocates were hoping to seal a global agreement for the phase down of super greenhouse gases and give next months Copenhagen climate talks a can-do running start. But the annual meeting of the 198 nations of the Montreal Protocol began on a note of ...
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• Luxury Capsule Hotel

  
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  Product designer Fumie Shibata has created a new concept for a luxury capsule hotel . Opening in Kyoto next month, each capsule will have its own computerised lighting system (by Panasonic !) and high thread count sheets as well as minimalist capsules, lockers, showers and a communal lounge. Well, we’ve ...
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• Climate Change Threatens China’s Yangtze River Basin

  
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  paulmannixs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Climate change threatens to unleash severe storms, droughts, floods across China’s Yangtze River Basin in the coming decades, unless proper mitigation measures are taken to protect the region from catastrophe, according to a new study from the WWF. While we should ...
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• Police state starts at 450 ppm CO2 equivalent

  
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  As I was just informed by Marc Morano, The Heritage Foundation and other sources inform about new, highly enhanced competences of the U.S. president that will be activated according to the Boxer-Kerry or Waxman-Markey bills as soon as the concentration of " Kyoto " greenhouse gases - CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, ...
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• What Are the Consequences of Copenhagen?

  
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  If you’re like some of us over here at TakePart, you can’t get enough coverage of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. We even cover a lot of the news ourselves here. And that’s why it’s so exciting that over at The Daily Climate (TDC), today they are starting a four-part special report ...
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• 9h

  
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  9h is a stunning new capsule hotel set to open next month in Kyoto, and designed by Fumie Shibata (a name readers of my “On Design” column will probably recognize, since I tend to cover a lot of her work). The name, 9h, refers to a suggested 9-hour stay (1 hour for shower, 7 hours to sleep, 1 hour for rest), ...
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• Most Vulnerable Nations Seek Climate Justice

  
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  Final Draft of declaration issued November 11 in the Maldives, by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, comprising the 11 countries considered most vulnerable to climate change: Maldives, Kiribati, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Barbados and Bhutan. We, Heads of State, Ministers and representatives ...
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• Climate Justice Fast (Video)

  
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  The Climate Justice Fast began on November 6th as an international hunger strike to demand effective and justice action on climate change at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.  Participants will refrain from eating food and drink only water for extended intervals and in some cases until the summit this ...
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• Haruhi Movie Substantial in Length

  
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  The much anticipated “Disappearence” arc movie of Suzumiya Haruhi that is set for next year has been given quite a substantial boost when it was announced that the movie will be around 150 minutes long. Nobody quite knows why the long running time, considering that usually Kadokawa loves to cut corners when ...
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• Takase River Art Exhibit Kyoto

  
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  高瀬川京都展覧会 Kyoto s Takase River is a narrow canal that runs parallel to Kiyamachi Dori (street) from Nijo-Kiyamachi down to Fushimi, in southern Kyoto. It dates from 1611. It has willow trees on one side and is quite graceful, no matter how out of hand the nighttime revelry may get on Kiyamachi ...
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• Carbon Trading – A medieval pardon that is corrupt and inefficient

  
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  I am very happy to notice that some of the so called ”green movement” finally have wakened up to the giant scam called carbon trading. And recognize it for what it is – A GIANT FINANCIAL SCAM that puts all the burden on the common people and does nothing whatsoever for the environment . As I wrote in my post ...
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• No Impact Man Screening Spectacular

  
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  The shopping frenzy of the holiday season is approaching quickly, but fortunately The No Impact Man Screening Spectacular will offer the chance for us to examine the impact that holiday spending has on our lives and the planet, and hopefully we can find saner, more sustainable ways to celebrate.  You’re invited ...
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• Stonyfield Farm Partners with the Will Steger Foundation

  
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  I just love Stonyfield Farm! I love their yogurt, their website with coupons and recipes and how they are always supporting good causes. It was just released that Stonyfield Farm is helping the Will Steger Foundation send a dozen young leaders on an expedition to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...
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• Is Rudd the worst kind of climate sceptic?

  
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  By Tim Hollo Kevin Rudds speech to the Lowy Institute last Friday was one of the most extraordinary pieces of rhetorical hypocrisy this country has seen in recent years. Coming only days after he had been singled out by African negotiators at the Barcelona pre-Copenhagen talks as one of the leaders whose action ...
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• Kyoto Imperial Palace Special Opening

  
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  京都御所特別公開 To mark the twentieth anniversary of the ascension of the current Emperor, the Kyoto Imperial Palace has thrown open its gates to visitors. What is known as "Gosho" in Japanese is a massive park just north of downtown that contains the former royal residence. It was the imperial family ...
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• Climate Talks on the Road to Nowhere

  
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  The seeds of the current impasse were planted in Bali and nourished in subsequent negotiations by David Spratt Green Left Weekly The global community is supposed to be negotiating an agreement to contain greenhouse gas emissions to manageable levels. But with less than two months to the Copenhagen ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
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  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Traditional Art School Kyoto (TASK)

  
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  An Asahi TV report about a university in Kyoto that trains students in traditional Japanese arts and artisanship: It used to be that one would have to spend years as an apprentice to a particular artisan to learn the secrets of their trade. This school has decided that modern style classrooms are better, and has ...
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• Even the skeptics are being sucked in

  
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  Reader Maz2 rarely misses a trick. In today’s National Post editorial (that supposedly applauds Environment Minister Jim Prentice’s promise not to put our country’s economy at risk,) Maz2 exposes the subtle wording of the introduction which seems to imply tacit acceptance of the notion of AGW:The Earth is ...
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