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A Kyoto Field Experience: Learning and Bonding in Nature
Meaningful Life field trip: Grasshoppers resting on a leaf after rainfall (June 2025). Credit: Sophia Kisa Eaton During my spring...
Sophia Kisa
Aug 286 min read


Fieldwork in the Virgin Forest in Kyoto
Students exploring Ashiu Forest (June 2025; credit: Mana Short) From July 13 to 15, I had the privilege of visiting a remote village in...
Nana Kirikami
Aug 204 min read


From Seed to Salad: Wrapping up Our Autumn Semester Campus Farming
As the Autumn 2024–25 Semester came to a close, we gathered on January 20th to harvest the lettuce and herbs we had grown with care over...

KASA Sustainability
Mar 32 min read


Meaningful Life Spring 2024: Sado Field Trip
Building on the success of the first Meaningful Life class offered in the Autumn Semester of 2023, a second class was held in the spring...

KASA Sustainability
Jan 34 min read


Meaningful Life Spring 2024: Sado Research Trip
As the world increasingly shifts toward volatility and uncertainty — from the rise of AI to escalating social, political, and global...

KASA Sustainability
Jan 36 min read


Exploring Agroecology at Keisen University’s Education Farm
Nestled in the Tama Hills of southwestern Tokyo, surrounded by groves of trees, lies Keisen University’s Education Farm—a 0.7-hectare...
Mana Short
Dec 3, 20243 min read


Kickstarting Autumn 2024 Campus Farming
On October 14, members of KASA Sustainability, the Environmental Politics of Agriculture class of Autumn 2024, and Sophia alumni and...

KASA Sustainability
Nov 15, 20242 min read


Salmon Recovery: An Interview with the Wild Salmon Center
This is part of a series of blog posts and videos exploring how we can design sustainable food systems. Food production for human...

tito
Jun 29, 20241 min read


Salmon and Indigenous People: An Interview with Masaki Sashima and Morihiro Ichikawa
This is part of a series of blog posts and videos exploring how we can design sustainable food systems. The following video features an...

tito
Jun 29, 20241 min read


Salmon Aquaculture: An Interview with FRD Japan
This is part of a series of blog posts and videos exploring how we can design sustainable food systems. Food production for human...

tito
Jun 29, 20244 min read


Salmon Aquaculture: An Interview with Soul of Japan
This is part of a series of blog posts and videos exploring how we can design sustainable food systems. Food production for human...

tito
Jun 29, 20248 min read


Meaningful Life Autumn 2023: Field Trip to Kameoka
"Meaningful Life: Art, Digital, and Field-based Learning," or “Nanairo no Jinsei,” in Japanese is a new course in the Faculty of Liberal...

KASA Sustainability
Mar 7, 20244 min read


Meaningful Life Autumn 2023: Field Trip to Sado
"Meaningful Life: Art, Digital, and Field-based Learning," or “Nanairo no Jinsei” in Japanese, is a new course in the Faculty of Liberal...

KASA Sustainability
Mar 7, 20242 min read


Rivers, Salmon, Wetlands: Perspectives on Environmental Change in Kushiro, Hokkaido
Human Ecology: Rivers (HER) is a summer practicum course offered jointly by Sophia University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Graduate...

KASA Sustainability
Nov 9, 20227 min read


社会・生態系の多様性と互恵性を尊重するフードシステムへ
伊藤毅 KASA Sustainability ヘルシーで栄養価の高い十分な食料は、人間の身体・精神の健康と生物圏の持続可能性に密接にかかわっています。しかし、現在のフードシステムには目標達成に必要なものが備わっ ているのでしょうか。現状では目標を達成することはできていませ...

tito
Aug 27, 20223 min read


10 Takeaways on Climate Change Mitigation
Co-written by Beatrice Melo, Brex Arevallo, Michelle Sta. Romana, Nico Mira, Sinwa Naw, and Takeshi Ito On June 16, 2022, KASA...

KASA Sustainability
Jul 6, 20227 min read


Centering Social-Ecological Diversity and Interdependence in Our Food Systems
Takeshi Ito, KASA Sustainability Healthy, nutritious, and sufficient food is closely linked to human well-being and the biosphere’s...

tito
Jun 7, 20222 min read


「環境オフショアリング」シンポジウムの要約
Writer: Nico Mira, KASA Sustainability Translation: Uno Daito, KASA Sustainability 2022年3月15日、上智大学はチュラロンコン大学の社会開発研究センター(CSDS)とともに、「環境オフショ...

Uno Daito
Apr 7, 202210 min read


Symposium Summary: Environmental Offshoring
Nico Mira, KASA Sustainability On March 15, 2022, Sophia University in collaboration with the Center for Social Development Studies...

Nico Mira
Apr 2, 20228 min read


Introduction to the Environmental Offshoring Symposium
Takeshi Ito, KASA Sustainability This is an introduction to the symposium “Environmental Offshoring: Implications for East Asia’s...

tito
Mar 28, 20223 min read
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