2025.5.21
At the Convection Spot held at SpringX on the 2nd floor of the North Building of Grand Front Osaka on May 21, I introduced my initiatives as leader of the Organic Material Circulation Project in Niger and Ghana, Uganda and Djibouti, Zambia, and Japan (Kyoto). Under the slogan “Cleaning the City, Greening the Land,” the project aims to solve environmental problems by returni...
2025.4.11
The knowledge fostered by Kyoto University researchers will spread beyond time and space, creating further knowledge for the future and leading to solutions for the challenges facing the world. This booklet presents the visions of the future as envisioned by 125 researchers through the messages they have sent, and conveys the power of change that research can bring to societ...
2025.4.8
A paper by Yumi Yamanashi (Principal Researcher, Center for Research and Education of Wildlife, Kyoto City Zoo), a collaborative researcher for the Organic Material Circulation Project has been published in the academic journal Public Library of Science (PLoS).
2025.3.13
In the special exhibition, “Hello from Satellite RIHN – An Institute where Dialogue is Born,” five researchers from RIHN are conducting their daily research activities at the venue during the period. Kentaro Noda, a researcher from this project, will participate on March 20 (Thursday, national holiday) and March 24 (Monday). Place: Kyoto City University of Arts, Buildi...
2025.3.13
DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa✕ RIHN “Animarave” will distribute soil made from the compost house to the first 50 visitors on Sunday, March 16, the last day of the event. Soil will be distributed in original limited-edition tote bags designed by artist Takeshi Yasura. Date: March 16, 2025, 14:00-18:00 Place: 21st ...
2025.2.27
The Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto issued a press release titled “Promoting a Project to Realize Food Recycling: March Limited Sale of Special Strawberry Sweets Grown with Compost Derived from Food Waste”. Sweets using strawberries from Shimizu Farm in Seika Town, grown with compost made from dry compost, are available only during March. The Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto, in coopera...
2024.7.27
We have named our composting method Chikyuken Compost (Dry composting type). The materials are soil, rice bran, and chicken manure that can be found anywhere. Soil can be from a garden or field, or soil from used flower pots, soil purchased at a home improvement store, etc. Rice bran can be obtained free of charge from coin-operated rice mills. Chicken manure can also be pur...
2024.7.25
Our composting activity at Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto, was introduced in the Miyako Hotels & Resorts website, as part of the hotel’s SDGs initiative – the realization of a decarbonized, recycling-oriented society. Project members compost the leftover food scraps from the hotel every Tuesday and Thursday. Composting leftover food scraps (Miyako Hotels&Resor...
2024.3.19
Website has been launched.