Satoyama Spirit Musings about living WITH the land, not just ON it

Recent Posts

• Satoyama, the Sacred Feminine, and the Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic
• A Demographic Transition, Indeed
• Lessons from Pre-Industrial Japan
• Could Japan Return to an Edo Period Lifestyle by 2050?
• Ecosystem Services as a Concept is Gaining Currency
• A nuke-free Japan in the near term?
• Coexisting with Nature: Reflections after the Devastating 2011 Earthquake in Japan
• Japan should look to satoyama and satoumi for inspiration – A new article on Our World 2.0
• Tight Web Saves Cut-Off Japanese Villages
• A letter from Sendai
• To Serve the Ecosystems that Serve Us
• Further signs of change in Japan: Portent or promise?
• From Ecosystem Services to Gift Culture: An Overdue Change in Perspective
• UNEP says “Satoyama may prove to be one of Japan’s most important exports”
• Ecosystem Services – A transitional concept?
• Village Simplicity – Ideal or Real?
• A Taste of Living Oneness
• How important is worldview?
• Where is the spirit?
• Finding simplicity on the other side of complexity
• When nature is an abstraction it’s easy to take it for granted
• A classic documentary, NHK’s Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Watergarden, narrated by David Attenborough
• Japan’s strength, and future, is rooted in their ancient connection to nature
• For the “ama” free divers of Japan, the sacred feminine remains central
• A subtle but profound shift appears to be taking place in the Japanese psyche