Mariko

Mariko

Mariko Kobayashi is a Tokyo-based writer and the director of Eco Philosophy Japan, where she bridges ancient wisdom with modern environmental challenges. Armed with an MA in Philosophy from the University of Paris IV, she began her sustainability journey as climate concerns intensified globally. Her work explores how philosophical traditions can guide us toward more conscious living, drawing insights from both contemporary environmental specialists and historical thinkers. Through her writing and research, she examines practical pathways for sustainable futures while questioning our fundamental relationship with the natural world.

We are all hoarders on this earth

I am strangely fascinated by hoarders. When YouTube recommends clean-up videos, I am clicking them without giving much thought. Those videos show the room filled with garbage and trash before professional cleaners help hoarders to clean up their cluttered houses.…

Are you taking care of yourself?

The work has been hectic. You are stressed. There is no time to prepare food, so you just buy pre-made food on the way home and eat it in front of the TV? You know that it is not good…