Japan Post Carbon Off Set Greeting Card

Start your new year greeting by offseting the carbon foot print.



Japan Postal has launched the carbon offset greeting card since 2008. The normal greeting card cost 50 yen, while carbon offset card cost 55 yen. The extra 5 yen will be used for carbon offset.

Picture: carbon offset greeting card for 2010 (left) and 2009 (right)

Sakura Bloom and The Global Warming

Sakura Bloom and The Global Warming

The Sakura bloom is getting earlier in Japan. In Tokyo, it is about a week earlier compare to the 1980s. Study in Kagoshima found that warmer weather not only causing early blooming, but also making the sakura unable to fully bloom. If the warming continue, the romance of full blooming Japanese sakura will start to disappear from these Islands.