It was an aquarium/fishery trip. The students pulled a net in from the beach and saw what fish live out in the bay. Turns out we have fugu!
And the Guardian has a great piece about the winter climate here in Japan:
- Japan, the world’s second-largest economy, has no domestic sources of fossil fuel and, facing rising oil prices, has turned energy efficiency into an art form. Japan’s oil consumption has remained steady since 1975, while world consumption has risen steadily. It has dramatically diversified its power sources over the years, becoming far less dependent on oil and cultivating a culture of conservation.
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That has helped make Japan’s energy consumption per person almost half that of the US. Conservation fever swept the nation after the Kyoto protocol, the 1997 treaty written in Japan that aims to reduce greenhouse gases.
Steady oil use since 1975. That’s 30 years. THIRTY YEARS!