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Keibo Oiwa - professor, cultural anthropologist, and a widely respected philosopher and organizer in Japan
Keibo Oiwa co-authored, with David Suzuki, a book about bottom-up movements for peace, human rights and environmentalism, called 'The Japan We Never Knew'. He is the founder of The Sloth Club – an NGO that promotes slow and sustainable living. The Sloth Club, coupled with Keibo's book Slow is Beautiful: Culture as Slowness, have fostered a new appreciation of rural life and a simpler way of living.
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Keibo Oiwa - professor, cultural anthropologist, and a widely respected philosopher and organizer in Japan
Keibo Oiwa co-authored, with David Suzuki, a book about bottom-up movements for peace, human rights and environmentalism, called 'The Japan We Never Knew'. He is the founder of The Sloth Club – an NGO that promotes slow and sustainable living. The Sloth Club, coupled with Keibo's book Slow is Beautiful: Culture as Slowness, have fostered a new appreciation of rural life and a simpler way of living.
Watch the interview with Keibo Oiwa here: youtu.be/N8Ww8nnQYvs?si=8WFK01JZW3Qj1oir
Follow the Planet Local Voices interview series: localfutures.org/programs/planet-local-voices
Listen to this interview as a podcast:
localfutures.org/programs/global-to-local/local-futures-podcast
To learn more about our work, visit:
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