Mayumi Nakamura's Blog – April 2011 Archive (11)

How You Can Help. The best way to make a difference is by simply changing your mindset: Instead of thinking of your tap water as an infinite resource, think of it as having limits.

“When it comes to trying understand the challenges to understand water, I really think we focus too much on ‘scarcity.’ Water is, and always has been, scarce,” Cousteau says. “The truth is, we really need to go back to grade school Earth Science class and remember that water on the planet exists in an… Continue

Today,we mulched and we weeded in the school's garden. The thing we did today doesn't directly help to the food security. But if we keep doing it, then it is going to affect for the food security.

If we could make electricity from the hydraulic pressure of the shower, the restroom, and water service, that will be cool for the environment.

A special day in the year 2020. I'm going to a trip with my friends. We take an airplane for it. The airplane uses the energy of Li-ion battery. Which is a family of rechargeable battery types in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive electrode during discharge, and back when charging. Chemistry, performance, cost, and safety characteristics vary across LIB types. Unlike lithium primary batteries (which are disposable), lithium-ion electrochemical cells use an… Continue

Jessica Lin and three other female Harvard University students—Jessica Matthews, Julia Silverman, and Hemali Thakkar—created sOccket to produce a soccer ball that generates cheap, clean, off-grid electricity when rolled. The sOccket ball captures the energy from impact that is normally lost to the environment when the soccer ball is kicked, dribbled, or thrown and stores this energy for later use.

I think this is a nice idea to creative power. Because we use natural energy for it, not like… Continue

I'm eating dinner with my friend at a restaurant in Japan. Almost all of food are organic. They come from farms and the ocean. The dishes we are eating are Japanese traditional dishes. Those are rice with a red sea bream, miso-soup with edible wild plants, vinegared dish, sashimi (slices of raw fish),etc.

Innovation not only will continue in agriculture, but will trickle down into it from highly advanced industries, such as the medical, defense, aerospace and computer industries, where new technologies deliver profit. As the latest technology advances within these industries become mass produced and less expensive, bright agricultural minds will watch, research and adapt these technologies to aid on-farm efficiency, produce new crops and animals, and much more.

I'm interested in this… Continue

Innovation not only will continue in agriculture, but will trickle down into it from highly advanced industries, such as the medical, defense, aerospace and computer industries, where new technologies deliver profit. As the latest technology advances within these industries become mass produced and less expensive, bright agricultural minds will watch, research and adapt these technologies to aid on-farm efficiency, produce new crops and animals, and much more.

I'm interested in this… Continue

I'm working in Japan. I hope I have a job which I use English.

I picked Atsushi Tamura who is an actor in Japan. As you guys know there was an big earthquake in Japan a month ago. He was the first person from all the actors who started collecting stuff for sufferers need. I thought
what he has done for people was great. I check his blog to see what he does.

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My favorite secret is “ Provide skills, not just finished technologies.”

; The current revolution in design for developing countries is the notion of co-creation, of teaching the skills necessary to create the solution, rather than simply providing the solution. By involving the community throughout the design process, you can help equip people to innovate and contribute to the evolution of the project. Furthermore, they acquire the skills needed to… Continue