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Sakura Shower Gel from Lush

The Sakura Shower Gel started off its Lush life as a Lush Japan exclusive.Luckily for Lush customers in the UK, Lush decided to release a very small batch of it, making it possible for me to grab myself a bottle.It was ridiculously popular and sold out within less than 24 hours of its UK release.The shower gel is described by Lush as a ‘bouquet in a bottle’. If you’ve used the Sakura bath bomb,…

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Ruriko-in Temple, Japan by Masayuki Nakamura

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“ Kitano Tenmangu Shrine “ // lotus.m.lotus

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by Casey Yee

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Happy news years and 明けましておめでとうございます 🐰

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Greenery by Katsuaki Shoda Via Flickr: Ricoh GXR+GXR MOUNT A12+Super Angulon 21mm f/3.4

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Sawako - Sol Soil from: Sawako - Stella Epoca (12k, 2022)

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AI image generation

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Early Summer 初夏 by Patrick Vierthaler

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The World's Forests Are Doing Much Better Than We Think

You might be surprised to discover... that many of the world’s woodlands are in a surprisingly good condition. The destruction of tropical forests gets so much (justified) attention that we’re at risk of missing how much progress we’re making in cooler climates.

That’s a mistake. The slow recovery of temperate and polar forests won’t be enough to offset global warming, without radical reductions in carbon emissions. Even so, it’s evidence that we’re capable of reversing the damage from the oldest form of human-induced climate change — and can do the same again.

Take England. Forest coverage now is greater than at any time since the Black Death nearly 700 years ago, with some 1.33 million hectares of the country covered in woodlands. The UK as a whole has nearly three times as much forest as it did at the start of the 20th century.

That’s not by a long way the most impressive performance. China’s forests have increased by about 607,000 square kilometers since 1992, a region the size of Ukraine. The European Union has added an area equivalent to Cambodia to its woodlands, while the US and India have together planted forests that would cover Bangladesh in an unbroken canopy of leaves.

Logging in the tropics means that the world as a whole is still losing trees. Brazil alone removed enough woodland since 1992 to counteract all the growth in China, the EU and US put together. Even so, the planet’s forests as a whole may no longer be contributing to the warming of the planet. On net, they probably sucked about 200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year between 2011 and 2020, according to a 2021 study. The CO2 taken up by trees narrowly exceeded the amount released by deforestation. That’s a drop in the ocean next to the 53.8 billion tons of greenhouse gases emitted in 2022 — but it’s a sign that not every climate indicator is pointing toward doom...

More than a quarter of Japan is covered with planted forests that in many cases are so old they’re barely recognized as such. Forest cover reached its lowest extent during World War II, when trees were felled by the million to provide fuel for a resource-poor nation’s war machine. Akita prefecture in the north of Honshu island was so denuded in the early 19th century that it needed to import firewood. These days, its lush woodlands are a major draw for tourists.

It’s a similar picture in Scandinavia and Central Europe, where the spread of forests onto unproductive agricultural land, combined with the decline of wood-based industries and better management of remaining stands, has resulted in extensive regrowth since the mid-20th century. Forests cover about 15% of Denmark, compared to 2% to 3% at the start of the 19th century.

Even tropical deforestation has slowed drastically since the 1990s, possibly because the rise of plantation timber is cutting the need to clear primary forests. Still, political incentives to turn a blind eye to logging, combined with historically high prices for products grown and mined on cleared tropical woodlands such as soybeans, palm oil and nickel, mean that recent gains are fragile.

There’s no cause for complacency in any of this. The carbon benefits from forests aren’t sufficient to offset more than a sliver of our greenhouse pollution. The idea that they’ll be sufficient to cancel out gross emissions and get the world to net zero by the middle of this century depends on extraordinarily optimistic assumptions on both sides of the equation.

Still, we should celebrate our success in slowing a pattern of human deforestation that’s been going on for nearly 100,000 years. Nothing about the damage we do to our planet is inevitable. With effort, it may even be reversible.

-via Bloomburg, January 28, 2024

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Blooming Beautiful Bath Bomb from Lush

The Blooming Beautiful Bath Bomb was released in the UK alongside the Sakura shower gel as a part of a very limited-edition line that was originally only going to be available at Lush Japan.Although it was released alongside the Sakura shower gel, the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb is not a part of the Sakura Lush-scent-family. The Blooming Beautiful bath bomb is also not to be confused with the…

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Lush & verdant hotel selections from the book, 'The Hospitality and Leisure Architecture of Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo' (1995)

1-3 - Hyatt Regency Cheju - Cheju, South Korea

4-6 - Shangri-La Hotel, Garden Wing- Singapore

7-9 - Palm Hills Golf Resort and Spa - Okinawa, Japan

All designed by the firm, Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo (WATG)

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more japan stuffs! really loving the food <3

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Gardens in Wu Xi by norsez Oh

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What Do Memories Sound Like?

What Do Memories Sound Like?

On a business trip to Japan in 1991 I was to meet an American in the lobby of an office building in Tokyo. I arrived about 15 minutes before the scheduled time, 8 am,  because. . .well because it seemed like a good idea that if you’re going to travel to the other side of the world and have an appointment, you don’t want to miss it. Oddly, it was me and a guy working a floor buffer in the lobby…