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| The only light found on the South side of the Shinjuku Station was this strange "love reader" game. |
Eco-friendly Christmas lights
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Lights Out
Tokyo has made great efforts to reduce electricity usage by limiting lights and switching to LED power. This is especially apparent around Shinjuku station. The South exit, once brightly lit, now shuts down after 8pm. This is also true for many office buildings in the area. How do the salarymen feel about this? Does this mean no more 残業？
Eco-friendly Christmas lights
Eco-friendly Christmas lights
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What is this "love reader" game?! It is quite strange looking... in a pretty kind of way. I was wondering, even though stores and train stations and other public areas have signs "setsuden", what about places where you might not see superficially? For example, town hall meetings, break-rooms, classrooms, and other areas that are not necessarily public spaces may have more energy saving measures that are not necessarily advertised or "announced", but simply things that are natural for people to do. In a meeting space, for example, a group might have only half of the ceiling lights on instead of the entire ceiling space...
ReplyDeleteBy public announcing an energy saving element of something (such as Christmas lights in Meguro that is fueled by cooking oil) could educate the pubic about how setsuden is at work, repeatedly announcing these things publicly might not be perceived positively by people. Adopting energy saving practices should be a permanent transition and one that doesn't need to seek "approval" and might not necessarily be noticeable... I'm not sure just how much is transitioned to power saving measures, but I think that there might be further things that are not necessarily apparent, especially in public areas.