tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51403760994673315322024-03-12T19:57:36.878-07:00パーマカルチャー生活 Living PermacultureKai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.comBlogger422125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-29421899979118975402019-06-30T03:06:00.001-07:002019-06-30T03:06:49.104-07:00life at the peace and permaculture dojo by rapper Mio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Below is a video of life at the Peace and Permaculture Dojo (the Dojo)<br />
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道場 (dojo) means a place (場)of/for the path (道)also known to the West as "dao". The Dojo is in the early stages of development as a place of practice, and a place of nonviolent/peace activists to gather near Tokyo, but just far enough to be surrounded by rice paddies and the ocean.<br />
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In 2018, we experimented with our first residential internship program for Japanese. We had three spots that were filled up with nine people, including a family of five (and two goats). As everything is quite unstructured and organic at the Dojo, it was quite a challenging experiment for all of us, but the learning and growth was priceless.<br />
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Things we explored (a sample)<br />
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<li><b>simple living</b> e.g. building your own dwelling, cooking with fire and sun, washing by hand (including cloth diapers for two), eating almost completely locally, etc </li>
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<li><b>community dynamics and nonviolent communication</b>: how to be authentic, empathetic, and live harmoniously with those who have different perspectives (vegan/non-vegan, toddler/children/20s/30s/40s, single/family, urban/rural, etc) </li>
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<li><b>systems thinking and design</b>: community is a system and operates differently than individuals </li>
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<li><b>permaculture, natural farming, and ecological regeneration</b>: how to heal the land (and ourselves) and live as part of the ecosystem</li>
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<li><b>mindfulness: </b>living in the present moment, engaging with the internal landscape </li>
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<li><b>gift economy</b>: living in service, being in alignment with the ecosystem, and having awareness of when things are not a "gift" (like feeling we are pressured to give). Exploring the difference with capitalism through our head, heart, and hands</li>
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<li> <b>social change</b>: our relationship to the larger society and our cultural inheritance, roles, and possible contributions in a time of instability</li>
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It was an extremely challenging process, especially in the realm of emotions, but I feel such experiences are invaluable and help us grow in ways that modern society rarely offer. AND extremely rewarding (although its not for the rewards that we do this work).<br />
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This year (2019) we are doing a five month internship with four residents.<br />
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We also have more and more people moving to the area (Isumi, Chiba) involved in running the Dojo and using the Dojo.<br />
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Slowly, we will grow our capacity to support more people in their practice.<br />
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BELOW are previous articles on the Dojo<br />
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/01/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-in-japan.html&source=gmail&ust=1521896191915000&usg=AFQjCNF2Df2KR-uVv6g38uirXEyFpkV5KQ" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/01/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-in-japan.html" target="_blank">Peace and Permaculture Dojo in Japan part 1</a></h3>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/04/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-tour-and.html&source=gmail&ust=1521896191916000&usg=AFQjCNHLmC505MadcdtzjgWc_xoeopMAeA" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/04/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-tour-and.html" target="_blank">Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour and Culture (April 2017)</a></h3>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/08/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-update-part.html&source=gmail&ust=1521896191916000&usg=AFQjCNG87vwp8qF0lOG1ku8ZxZxwajfXew" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/08/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-update-part.html" target="_blank">Peace and Permaculture Dojo update part 3: Earthen Wall workshop </a></h3>
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<a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com/2018/03/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-update-4.html">Peace and Permaculture Dojo UPDATE 4 Spring 2018</a></h3>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-78366575482218743692019-06-24T08:46:00.000-07:002019-06-24T08:46:06.573-07:00【UK, Totnes Talk & Workshop】June 25th Talk & June 28th Workshop <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you are curious about what I have been up to, check out my<a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com/2019/02/kais-permaculture-in-japan-2019-update.html" target="_blank"> update post here</a>!<br />
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Below are some events I will be doing this week in England.<br />
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<span><b>Peace & Permaculture in Japan </b><br />With Kai Sawyer<br /><br /><u>7pm Tuesday, June 25th</u><br />At the Barrel House<br />Sliding scale gift at the door<br /><br />Please join us for this very special evening with one of Japan’s inspirational peace and permaculture movement leaders.<br /><br />There’s
so much happening in Japan. Kai will share his experience with
post-Fukushima renewal and acts of compassion, miso-making in the House
of Councillors to spread probiotics in our politics, the Peace and
Permaculture Dojo, and impermaculture.<br /><br />Kai is founder of Peace
and Permaculture Dojo and Tokyo Urban Permaculture, is a practitioner of
gift economy, and teacher of nonviolence, mindfulness and the Gift
Ecology. <br /><br />Organised by Totnes REconomy Project and Transition Town Totnes. </span><br />
<span>For more info, email Jay Tompt - <a href="mailto:jay@transitiontowntotnes.org">jay(a)transitiontowntotnes.org</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/374209806540948/" target="_blank">EVENT PAGE LINK HERE</a><br />
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<span><b>The Gandhian Iceberg and the Gift Ecology </b><br />a deep dive workshop for change makers,<br />with Kai Sawyer<br /><br /> <br />Friday, June 28 9:30-4:30pm<br />REconomy Centre and Leachwell Garden<br /><br />Booking is essential as space is limited. <br />Email </span><span><span><a href="mailto:jay@transitiontowntotnes.org">jay(a)transitiontowntotnes.org</a></span></span><br />
<span><span> </span><br />Cost: Kai graciously accepts what you are happy
to gift so that he can continue to share and facilitate for the benefit
of humanity. <br />*One suggestion is a massage therapy session that evening. :-)<br /> <br />The
Gandhian Iceberg is a model for those committed to "being peace" and
co-creating a nonviolent culture where all-life can thrive. in this
workshop we will explore this simple but profound model composed of
three parts: satyagraha (courageous action inspired by love),
constructive program (collective practice of living together), and self
purification (deep inner work). We’ll also explore:<br /><br />* adventures in the world of giftivism (the practice of gift economy and living in service)<br />* ‘Integral non violence’, permaculture and NVC<br />* how to be "moved by love" rather than fear and anger<br />*
what all of you are moved by, what challenges you are facing in life,
and explore how to be more empowered and joyful on this exciting
journey. <br /><br />Kai is founder of Peace and Permaculture Dojo and Tokyo
Urban Permaculture, a practitioner of the gift economy, and teacher of
permaculture, NVC, and holistic systems-level social change. <br /><br />Organised by Totnes REconomy Project and Transition Town Totnes. </span><br />
<span>For more info, email Jay Tompt - </span><span><a href="mailto:jay@transitiontowntotnes.org">jay(a)transitiontowntotnes.org</a></span><br />
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-64305193710787364292019-02-12T21:41:00.001-08:002019-04-16T18:24:16.202-07:00Kai's Permaculture in Japan 2019 UPDATE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been awhile (as usual) that I've given an update in English about what I've been up to, so here it is! Most of my articles are in Japanese at Tokyo Urban Permaculture.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>INTRO </b></span><br />
My work is a mix of permaculture, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), integral nonviolence (inspired by the <a href="https://gandhianiceberg.com/" target="_blank">Ghandian Iceberg</a>) , Zen and mindfulness (<a href="https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/" target="_blank">Plum Village tradition</a>), and gift economics or giftivism (inspired by nature, <a href="https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index" target="_blank">Goenka's 10 Day Vipassana</a>, <a href="https://www.servicespace.org/" target="_blank">Service Space</a>, and everyday heros).<br />
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I focus on Japan because I felt a need, an opportunity, and I had a calling after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in 2011. While I'd love to spread the awesome happenings of Japan (impermaculture, natural farming, peace activism, simple artful living, etc), I've come to accept that I can't do more than I can do. If you can help on the media front and/or translate, drop me a line at tup.pollinator(a)gmail.com<br />
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Let's start with 2018 accomplishments and celebrations!!! <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>CHILDREN'S PERMACULTURE BOOK</b></span><br />
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Last year after about 3 years of creativity and drama, we finally published a children's permaculture book! Based on our first book, Urban Permaculture Guide, and infused with inspiration from the Whole Earth Catalogue, its my usual mix of permaculture, NVC, mindfulness, and giftivism. Beautiful art and I'm just amazed at how it turned out!<br />
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If we find the right people, we might be able to put it out in English.<br />
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The cover is a compost mandala that my friend <a href="https://www.wakanakawamura.com/" target="_blank">Wakana Kawamura</a> drew. A beautiful illustration of how kitchen "waste" is transformed by different microorganisms and worms, finally turning into vegetables. <br />
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Another dear friend, <a href="https://www.nikyniky.com/" target="_blank">Niky Roehreke</a>, created wonderful art pieces for each chapter (right side "Edible"). Left side is by the designer and is about the three permaculture ethics, EARTH CARE, PEOPLE CARE, FAIR SHARE.<br />
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Because we want children and adults to take action (not just read the book), we came up with meaningful fun activities that are quite radical for Japanese. This page is guerrilla seed planting titled, "go throw seeds without telling any adults". <br />
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Another one of Wakana's illustrations for the page "From Exchange to Gifting" (about the gift economy, aka gift ecology).<br />
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We wanted to make a book artistic, fun, while cultivating the foundation for permaculture thinking. This page is about various forms of energy.<br />
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It is a 144 page art piece and homage to permaculture!<br />
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I'm quite proud of our first permaculture culture book that a different team co-created with over 400 people involved called, The Urban Permaculture Guide.<br />
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Here is a bit about it: <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com/2015/01/japanese-urban-permaculture-guidebook.html" target="_blank">Japanese Urban Permaculture Guidebook is published!!!!</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>PEACE AND PERMACULTURE DOJO in Chiba prefecture</b></span><br />
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The Peace and Permaculture Dojo is my first land-based project and is located in Chiba prefecture (two hours by train from Tokyo). It is an old abandoned homestead (Japan is plentiful in this resource) of 0.9 hecters or 2.2 acres. We have been fixing the Japanese timber-framed house that is over 100 years old and slowly regenerating the soil with a method called daichinosaisei which literally means "earth regeneration". Daichinosaisei is spreading like wild-fire in the Japanese permaculture and natural farming circles. Some day when I'm motivated enough, I might write about it! But, basically, it's about creating healthy soil ecosystems by digging vertical and horizontal holes, filling them with interwoven biomass and porous tiles, and spreading lots of bamboo charcoal for microbial habitat. One of the passionate leaders of the movement, Takada, says its based on what farmers and landscape architects knew as common-sense before the US cultural reeducation after world war 2. Daichinosaisei is a lot about seeing the earth as a living system and taking care of air flow and water flow (veins) beneath the surface. I'll stop there for now, it's super deep!<br />
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Just a few recent highlights at the DOJO<br />
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<li> Transitioning from a dictatorship (by me) to a cooperative model. Finally!</li>
<li> We ran out of money. Finally!</li>
<li> Last year I took on four youth and a family of five (and two goats) for my first batch of interns</li>
<li> This year, I'm hoping to have 2~3 interns for five months of training in permaculture, organic farming, NVC, mindfulness, and social change</li>
<li> We are going to have a monthly Day Of Mindfulness practice, and regular morning meditations</li>
<li> Starting to make a basemap for the site so we can do a proper permaculture design</li>
<li> Going to get more serious about daichinosaisei</li>
<li> In addition to our 6-day NVC trainings, we are going to have more activist trainings like a 2-day community organizing workshop, and a World Shift training</li>
<li> We wil also host a Permaculture Design Course for the second time</li>
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Although I am focused on training Japanese, if things work out, I'm happy to have non-Japanese to help out and experience neo-traditional Japanse living. I guess its just timing, matching needs and gifts, and how little extra work it will be for me! I can't even keep up with emails.<br />
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You can read more about it in my past blog posts <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com/search/label/Peace%20and%20Permaculture%20Dojo" target="_blank">CLICK HERE (link to all Dojo related articles)</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>COMMUNE 2ND ROOFTOP GARDEN in the heart of Tokyo</b></span><br />
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This was an experiment to create an urban permaculture garden in the heart of the Tokyo youth fashion district (Harajuku/Omotesando). The building was not intended for anything on the roof, so we started by climbing ladders, carrying wood to make a floor (when we first arrived, we were stepping directly on the foam insulation facing the sky), and lifting bags of soil on our backs. The project started with a worm bin, then I was invited to teach about urban permaculture, then we said let's make a garden! We are also doing monthly permaculture themed community lunches that features the seasonal harvest (little bit).<br />
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It's still a longways from the urban oasis I dream of, but despite my sporadic involvement, its still alive! Hoping to revamp the project and get more regular involvement, especially the fashion and tech-driven youth. Transforming consumers to producers.<br />
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The space is semi-public, and it's a bit tricky to invite strangers up there, but if you have skills and want to be involved for a few months (commitment makes a big difference), you can try dropping us a line at tup.pollinator(a)gmail.com (we are all super-active volunteers so our communication can be slow and sporadic!).<br />
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<a href="http://commune2nd.com/" target="_blank">Commune 2nd Official Website</a> (our project is not featured because it is underground) <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>NONVIOLENCE COMMUNICATION TRAININGS</b></span><br />
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What does it take to create a world of active peace? <br />
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A culture of integral nonviolence?<br />
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A country of people who are devoted to caring for each other, and living as a society that works for everyone?<br />
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Those are some of the questions that lead me to start the Peace and Permaculture Dojo, and experiment with NVC practice retreats.<br />
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A team of NVC trainers and I have been holding 6-day NVC trainings for youth and activists twice a year. Inspired by the <a href="https://baynvc.org/about/" target="_blank">NVC Leadership Program</a> (now on hiatus), these have been deep explorations into nonviolence, authenticity, and empathy. We have also been incorporating cooking together, chopping wood, taking out the humanure bucket as a way to root the NVC training with living nonviolently. <br />
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This year, we are going to add two more trainings. A seven-day training with an assitant program much like the NVC Leadership Program. And a social justice and diversity themed NVC retreat with the former lead trainer of the NVC Leadership Program, Roxy.<br />
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Although the NVC Leadership Program no longer exisits, it was a magical community experiement in nonviolence, and I really felt like I started to taste the essence of nonviolence. These retreats are both to expand our ecosystem of peace activists, and to bring us back to the consciouness of nonviolence.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS MOVEMENT: from a global economic system to localization</b></span><br />
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This is a whole can of worms so I won't go into much detail, but I'm working with director of Local Futures, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Norberg-Hodge" target="_blank">Helena Norberg-Hodge,</a> and long-time Japanese activist, <a href="http://keibooiwa.sblo.jp/" target="_blank">Ooiwa Keibo</a>, to build a solid vbirant localization movement that can transcend the tsunami of the global economic system. This has been an evolution of my activism in Japan which started with the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, climate change, then issues of war and US bases, and now the whole global economic system! My role in the activist scene in Japan has been organizing and training youth (there are very few of us out there!), and creating a more holistic social change culture.<br />
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The pieces that I'm integrating into this is<br />
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<li> post-Fukushima nuclear meltdown Japan</li>
<li> US occupation in Japan (US-bases, post-war treaties undermining the Japanese constitution, and heavy US influence in Japanese politics)</li>
<li> efforts to change our pacifist constitution, specifically Article 9</li>
<li> the recent shift to actively develop and sell weapons</li>
<li> political apathy and one-party rule (Liberal Democratic Party)</li>
<li> hyper-consumerism</li>
<li> privitization of public services (most recently our water system) </li>
<li> widespread abuse of youth and women, particularly what we call "power harassment"</li>
<li> disempowerment and subordination</li>
<li> disconnection</li>
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For more on Economics of Happiness, check out <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/publications/free-downloads/" target="_blank">this book</a> and <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/about/" target="_blank">website Local Futures</a><br />
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BYRON BAY GATHERING (Feb 2019)<br />
I was part of an awesome team that discussed the future of the global localization movement (sounds like an oxymoron!). We discussed what we mean by "localization", sticky issues such as terminology and modern technology (specifically block-chain and cryptocurrencies, AI, Google/Facebook), and how we can foster a vibrant movement that is relevant to everyone. We also explored the possibility of creating a <a href="https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/" target="_blank">Schumacher College</a> inspired education center that engages with the global economic system and politics.<br />
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The people who gathered were very inspiring, and challenged my preconceptions and understandings in many ways. Particularly Camila from Brazil and Manish from India. Its sometimes hard to remember that the Western worldview is not a universal worldview, and many of the challenges of our times have grown out of the Western cultural experiment (like Cartisianism). Anyways, check out the profiles of the characters that gathered. Really awesome stuff!<br />
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<a href="https://www.localfutures.org/events-calendar/upcoming-events/big-picture-activism-australia/" target="_blank">Big Picture Activism for The Economics of Happiness</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>MINDFULNESS AND BEING PEACE</b></span><br />
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What more to say? <br />
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Change yourself, and the world changes<br />
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This year, we are having monthly Day Of Mindfulness practices in the tradition of Plum Village. Many of us are also vipassana meditators so there is talk of having regular morning sits.<br />
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Mindfulness is the foundation of all of what I do, so I'm trying to create a regular community practice to cultivate that energy in me and in our community. It's so easy to get busy, frustrated, depressed, and unhappy when diving deep into the tragedies of violence and oppression. So, its essential to have an oasis of peace in our hearts, and in our community where we can take refuge.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>TOURS (aka activist trainings)</b></span><br />
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As a way to refresh my mind, reconnect with fellow activists, and train Japanese activists (at least that's what I secretly call them), I organize two overseas trips.<br />
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One is to <a href="https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/" target="_blank">Schumacher College</a> in the UK, to spend time with Satish Kumar and experience holistic education.<br />
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The other, my favorite project, is a permacultture-themed tour to the Pacific North West of the US. We go to the <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com/p/bullocks-permaculture-homestead.html" target="_blank">Bullocks Permaculture Homestead</a>, where I was an intern for two years, then to Portland and Seattle. In Portland, we experience the <a href="https://www.cityrepair.org/" target="_blank">City Repair</a> movement and all the amazing permaculture themed social change projects like an ecovillage by homeless people (Dignity Village). We also go to Seattle to see some of the large-scale permaculture projects like the Beacon Hill Food Forest.<br />
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Some of the tour participants continue to work closely with me.<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow;">IN CLOSING</span></b><br />
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There are lots of other things, like raising a beautiful child, but I'll end here for now.<br />
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Here are a few online resources in English for more information on what I want to spread in the world<br />
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1. <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">ABOUT ME</a> (a bit outdated)<br />
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2. Living the Gift Economy<br />
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3. TEDx talk called "An Invitation to Stop"<br />
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4. <a href="https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2017/1731/" target="_blank">The Permaculture Podcast : Peace, Permaculture, and The Gift with Kai Sawyer</a><br />
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Thanks for reading <br />
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moved by love<br />
Kai </div>
Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-83505998535571025782019-02-09T00:11:00.002-08:002019-02-09T00:11:51.850-08:002.13.2019 Big Picture Activism for Economics of Happiness@Byron Bay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wow, I haven't posted anything in English for so long!!!!<br />
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I'm in the midst of making an update but its been a several weeks project.<br />
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Anyways, I'm going to Australia tomorrow to participate in a retreat with some amazing people. There will be a public event in Byron Bay so if any of you are in that area, or know of anyone who might be interested, let them know.<br />
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For more information and tickets click <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/events-calendar/upcoming-events/big-picture-activism-australia/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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Join us for a unique, interactive evening in the company of activists
from 5 continents who are working towards system change. Learn about
what’s underway in India, Brazil, the USA, Japan, Denmark, Mexico and
other parts of the world, and why people from such different cultures
and geographies view localisation as a promising strategy for meeting
the greatest social and ecological challenges of our time.<br />
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The main organizer <br />
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Helena Norberg-Hodge – Australia/UK </h4>
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A pioneer of the local
economy movement, a respected analyst of the global economy, and a
leading proponent of ‘localization’, for which she was awarded the
prestigious Goi Peace prize in 2012 and the Arthur Morgan award in 2017.
Helena also earned the Right Livelihood Award, or ‘Alternative Nobel
Prize’, for her groundbreaking work with the people of Ladakh, which
aimed at finding ways to meet the modern world without sacrificing
Ladakhi cultural practices and social and ecological values.<br />
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Helena has authored and co-authored numerous articles, essays, book chapters and books, including: <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/store/#!/Bringing-the-Food-Economy-Home-Local-Alternatives-to-Global-Agribusiness/p/16039320/category=12119219"><em>Bringing the Food Economy Home</em></a>; <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/store/#!/From-the-Ground-Up-Rethinking-Industrial-Agriculture/p/16039322/category=12119219"><em>From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture</em></a>; and her seminal book <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/store/#!/Ancient-Futures-2016-edition/p/65807088/category=12119219"><em>Ancient Futures</em></a>
– which has been described as “an inspirational classic.” This book,
together with a film of the same name, has been translated into over 40
languages, and has sold half a million copies.<br />
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She is also the producer and co-director of the multi-award-winning film <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/store/#!/The-Economics-of-Happiness-DVD/p/16039081/category=4029288"><em>The Economics of Happiness</em></a>. She lectures extensively across the world, teaches regularly at Schumacher College in the UK, and appears in media worldwide.<br />
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Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and the <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/programs/global-to-local/international-alliance-localization/">International Alliance for Localization</a>.
She is also a founding member of the International Commission on the
Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on
Globalization, and the Global Ecovillage Network.<br />
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For more information and tickets click <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/events-calendar/upcoming-events/big-picture-activism-australia/" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-89016983469129911282018-03-23T06:29:00.000-07:002018-04-24T18:13:33.825-07:00Peace and Permaculture Dojo UPDATE 4 Spring 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its been a while since I wrote an update in English!</div>
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Cherry blossoms are starting here, and the frogs are singing with energy.</div>
I've been quite busy learning how to be a dad, contemplating about life, and chopping wood to keep my wife warm.</div>
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I've
also been busy growing the Peace and Permaculture Dojo with an amazing group of people. The DOjo is inspired by the
most inspiring communities I've experienced, places practicing peace and sustainability from
around the world.</div>
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This project is still in its infancy but its an
interesting experiment and I'm learning so much! I think of it as "peace infrastructure", where
we incubate a more resilient and powerful movement for peace and
sustainable living. </div>
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Here are some articles from last year (haven't had time to update)</div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/01/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-in-japan.html&source=gmail&ust=1521896191915000&usg=AFQjCNF2Df2KR-uVv6g38uirXEyFpkV5KQ" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/01/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-in-japan.html" target="_blank">Peace and Permaculture Dojo in Japan part 1</a></h3>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/04/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-tour-and.html&source=gmail&ust=1521896191916000&usg=AFQjCNHLmC505MadcdtzjgWc_xoeopMAeA" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/04/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-tour-and.html" target="_blank">Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour and Culture (April 2017)</a></h3>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/08/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-update-part.html&source=gmail&ust=1521896191916000&usg=AFQjCNG87vwp8qF0lOG1ku8ZxZxwajfXew" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/08/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-update-part.html" target="_blank">Peace and Permaculture Dojo update part 3: Earthen Wall workshop </a></h3>
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We are currently doing pilot projects such as<br />
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3 month training program where people start by building their house,
planting their food, learning facilitation and community living skills,
and experimenting with culture and ecology. We're aiming for it to be a
model for holistic education exploring the 3 S's (Soil, Soul, Society)
through the 3 H's (Head, Heart, Hands).</div>
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our first year and we have 4 people in their 20s, and a family of 5 with
two goats. A small but big experiment in peace and sustainable living.</div>
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2. Hosting regular lectures and workshops by leading thinkers, designers, and social change-makers, all gift economy based</div>
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6 day nonviolence retreat - through Nonviolent Communication we attempt
to move from power-over dynamics to power-with dynamics, and work on
inner transformation as well as understanding fundamentals to integral
nonviolence (both principled nonviolence and strategic nonviolence), and
structural oppression and change.</div>
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diversity of attendees such as activists, community organizers, teachers,
a political strategist, a politician, a lawyer, an executive consultant for a
major bank. </div>
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4. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school&source=gmail&ust=1521896191916000&usg=AFQjCNElJdM1LxnDR6qIyySVKD7tF72Zeg" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school" target="_blank">Sudberry School</a>, a school where children practice direct democracy, and adults treat children as equals.</div>
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5. Earth regeneration technique called <i>daichino saisei, </i>a movement growing in popularity in permaculture circles here. Basically about getting air and water to move underground, which will develop a healthier microbial ecosystem, which will restore the ecological vigor of the land.</div>
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6. Natural rice farming. And with that, koji-making, miso making, and soy sauce making. </div>
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A lot more is happening but its hard to write it all. If you read Japanese you can follow us on my Japanese blog <a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.jp/" target="_blank">Tokyo Urban Permaculture</a> or look up パーマカルチャーと平和道場。</div>
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We are a bit over-capacity so we're still not ready to take on most people wanting to get a tour or wanting to stay (e.g. WWOOFing). We don't have anybody consistent able to receive and respond to emails or messages at the moment (my email box is at 12,000 unopened emails!). Its also particularly hard to host visitors who can't speak Japanese. But, if you have something to offer and the timing is right, it sometimes works out.<br />
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Hopefully in the future, we can make it more accessible to non-Japanese speakers but it takes time to grow roots and that is where our energy is focused. Roots before Branches.</div>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-26181588098229147642017-10-30T06:45:00.000-07:002017-10-30T06:45:12.786-07:00NOV 4th in OAKLAND "Peace making activism in Japan after the Nuclear Disaster"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/10/bay-areaws.html" target="_blank">日本語はここ</a><br />
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My super amazing activist friend is doing a workshop in the Bay Area!<br />
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<span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ~ Social innovation through craftsmanship: Nuclear power plants, war, health recuperation, and healing ~ </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4b4f56;">Join Takafumi Tomita, a long term anti-nuclear, peace, and environmental activist, as he shares his activism experience in post-Fukushima Japan.</span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;">He hopes to share his perspectives from his experiences on his political actions, activities to protect children from radiation, and practices of revitalizing traditional food to protect and strengthen mind and body, and to exchange ideas in current forms of actions for “social innovation and craftsmanship” that inherits the spirit of Ghandian Charkha movement. </span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;">His talk includes varieties of his approach in peace-making activism such as</span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;">• health recuperation camps,</span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;">• fo</span><span class="m_-6244317642698976509gmail-m_-8671291055446618090gmail-m_164958706651619856gmail-m_-8016587046216357727m_2563612287699381914m_-8057729677677356973gmail-m_4520146328427491055m_-6846999739659839544gmail-text_exposed_show" style="color: #4b4f56; display: inline;">od as medicine for radiation protection,<br />• miso-making and plant dyeing as a way to create local resilience and self-sustainability independent of nuclear power plant and war economy,<br />• farming as a place for nuturing hope from the ground<br />• community organizing through creating a place for workshop<br />• creating Earth Day at House of representatives office in Japan to invite politicians to the place making</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Place: A PLACE for Sustainable Living (</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1121+64th+Street%C2%A0Oakland,+CA+94608&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;">1121 64th Street </a></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1121+64th+Street%C2%A0Oakland,+CA+94608&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;">Oakland, CA 94608</a>)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This event is operated under a gift economy with a suggested donation of $ 5-10 dollars, which will be 100% gifted to the PLACE as our gratitude for hosting the event. Please pay this in advance on the Paypal. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4b4f56;">TO PRE-REGISTER: Make a payment through PAYPAL and include a note: "</span></span></b><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">PEACEMAKING</span><b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4b4f56;">" along with your full name and email if different from your paypal account. </span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/lzfzf8w" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PAYPAL</a></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As for Taka's time and labor, he wishes to invite you to be part of his on-going activism by supporting him in a way you feel inspired to by free-will participation fee, which may offer at the event. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He currently have his philosophy on gift in Japanese on his website but google translate does an OK job communicating his intention, so please refer to the site to read on his philosophy on activism if you are interested. (we are working on English translation so, hopefully this will come soon). <a href="http://takafumitomita.blogspot.jp/p/gift.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for the Japanese version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4b4f56;">ABOUT TAKA</span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;">Takafumi Tomita is a peace and environmental activist, author, and practitioner of Japanese traditional handicrafts, healing and care, fermentation, and calendar. While based in Osaka, Japan, he has travelled all over Japan holding many workshops and events to share his knowledge and passion on topics including natural and plant dyeing, miso making, relationship of our body and mind, and alternative calendars (lunar and 13moon calendar). He practices and shares plant dyeing, miso making and other traditional handicrafts as his core embodiment of peace activism to empower community and build local resilience. </span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;">You can see some of his products at <a href="http://fukikobo.blogspot.jp/p/shop-photo-gallery.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a></span><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><br style="color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56;"><a href="http://takafumitomita.blogspot.jp/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">His website (only in Japanese)</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Please feel free to share the event with your friends. </span></div>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-60021288209160727632017-10-17T05:43:00.001-07:002017-10-17T05:43:27.933-07:00【YOUTUBE】Living the Gift Economy ギフトエコノミーを生きる<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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日本語の投稿は<a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/08/by-kai-friends.html" target="_blank">ここ</a><br />
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I had the opportunity to visit Australia at the beginning of this year. I was on my way to Tahiti to teach on Peace Boat (NGO in Japan that does educational cruises and anti-nuclear and peace work). I did a few workshops in my usual donation-without-obligation style, and was rewarded with this lovely video.<br />
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Thanks so much to Cecilia Macaulay for organizing the workshops (I appreciated how much you stretched to be an organizer!), and Friendly Farms production for making this video. Hope to visit Australia again!!! Maybe at the end of 2018 or 2019.<br />
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Here is more on the gift economy and how I hold it → <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/p/gift.html" target="_blank">GIFTivim</a></div>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-35784473880553703382017-08-01T02:34:00.003-07:002017-08-01T02:34:47.519-07:00Peace and Permaculture Dojo update part 3: Earthen Wall workshop <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Update on the Peace and Permaculture Dojo project Part 3<br />
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日本語は<a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/05/tup_20.html" target="_blank">【TUP道場】土壁塗りワークショップのレポート(写真と動画)</a><br />
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This is the third piece on the Dojo project (see below for context and previous articles)<br />
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We’ve been working on designing and redesigning (its always dynamic) the human ecology of the Dojo project and Tokyo Urban Permaculture, so the physical progress has been limited as planned. The social permaculture aspect of this project is really quite fascinating, and that is my particular interest, but I won’t get into that right now.<br />
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We are now working on the earthen walls tsuchikabe. We’re also trying to figure out where to put showers and the grey water system, and I’m super slowly working on another compost toilet.<br />
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Below is a bilingual video of our first tsuchikabe workshop facilitated by <a href="http://holzhueter.blogspot.jp/" target="_blank">Kyle</a> who is super awesome and thorough. My explanation on the other hand is not perfect/accurate, but I think you’ll get the gist of it. My aim is to get 60% of what I say right!<br />
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For more pictures of the workshop and process see <a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/05/tup_20.html" target="_blank">Tokyo Urban Permaculture </a><br />
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Also, below that is a wonderful write up by one of the participants Max Durayappah-Harrison, who is a PhD student in anthropology studying about Japanese agriculture. Copied from <a href="http://isumi-style.com/en/?p=374">Isumi Life Style Laboratory</a><br />
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Since late last year there has been much activity taking place in one particular corner of Chōjamachi, Isumi.<br />
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Renovations were begun on a kominka (a traditional-style, wooden-built Japanese home), with the plan to eventually make it the center of a retreat at which peace activists can explore permaculture and other practices aimed at achieving positive change in the world.<br />
One of the core objectives of the project is the building of community through working with and for the benefit of others.<br />
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The process of repairing and reconstructing the Permaculture and Peace Dōjo (as the kominka is known) therefore incorporates events at which members of the general public are able to participate in the renovation, learn about the project and meet others.<br />
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In early May, I was lucky enough to be a part of the earthen plaster workshop held at the Dōjo. In this post, I’d like to explain just a little about what we got up to.<br />
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The day began at 10am under brilliant sunshine with participants making their way down the tree-lined path that leads to the secluded Dōjo, entering the building and seating themselves on the newly-laid wooden floor that provides an inviting meeting and greeting place.<br />
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The coordinators of the Permaculture and Peace Dōjo project, Kai and Nao, had invited Kyle Holzhueter, a ‘straw bale builder’ and earthen plasterer, to lead the day’s activities.<br />
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Kyle began things with a short lecture on the history and intricacies of plastering in Japan. This included an account of how many of the motivations for particular design choices in Japanese building are founded in the nation’s geology (the prevalence of earthquakes necessitating ease of repair, for example) and culture.<br />
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He also introduced us to some of the properties of the material that make it practical and efficient as a resource in construction. This was brought home to me particularly clearly when he revealed that the plaster we would be using had as a primary constituent the decades-old plaster that had been stripped from the very walls that surrounded us.<br />
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Kyle, delivering his lecture <br />
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Once the mini-lecture was concluded we then set to work on the various tasks necessary to prepare for the application of earthenware plaster. These included:<br />
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•Removing loose and damaged plaster from the walls. Dusty work!<br />
•Breaking down the old plaster and mixing it with fresh soil sourced from nearby.<br />
•Adding water and straw to the mixture in order to bring it to the correct consistency that would allow it to bind when applied to the wall.<br />
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While all of these tasks were in themselves interesting, perhaps the most fun was had in mixing together the various ingredients of the plaster.<br />
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In order to do this on a large scale, a tarp was laid out and four walls created so that we could step inside and stamp, walk and dance it smooth.<br />
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And it is no exaggeration to say that the plaster was danced smooth, as there was an impromptu Bon Odori performance that took place, complete with music!<br />
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Breaking down soil and recycled plaster for the mix<br />
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The mixing station/stage (sans dancers)</div>
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It was around midday when we all broke for lunch. As is normally the
case at events held at the dōjo, in order to encourage sharing and
foster a sense of comradery everyone brought with them one item of food
to distribute amongst the whole group – potluck style.<br />
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This resulted in a great array of foodstuffs, many of which were
handmade by those that brought them. From organic onigiri to homemade
bread, and pickled vegetables to fruit salad, it was a veritable feast!<br />
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Lunch also gave everyone the opportunity to chat and get to know each
other a little better, as well as grill Kyle further on the art of
earthen plastering. I wouldn’t say I was uneager to get back to work but
it was certainly difficult to pull myself up and away from the
delicious food and banter.<br />
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Healthy food and hungry workers<br />
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Once the afternoon arrived, it was time to start applying the first
base-coat of plaster to the walls. Carried out either by hand or with
the aid of a trowel, Kyle showed us how to work the dark, coarse, muddy
mixture against the bamboo slats that lend the walls structure.<br />
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This was perhaps the most satisfying and yet difficult part of the job,
as for every handful of plaster I managed to attach to the wall, another
handful seemed to fall to the floor.<br />
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It appears to me at least, that it is one of those tasks that can look
incredibly easy but in fact requires hours of practice in order to get
the angle of your hand or the trowel just right and the pressure against
the slats correct.<br />
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Nevertheless, with a little instruction we managed to complete an amount we could all be proud of. <br />
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Kyle applying the plaster to the bamboo slats of the wall</div>
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So, with mucky hands and some tired muscles, I left the Permaculture
and Peace Dōjo with a greater understanding of a little of the work that
goes into renovating a kominka and the satisfaction that can be had in
working with others outdoors.<br />
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I’m happy that living in Isumi will give me a chance to hopefully meet
many of the friends I made that day again, while also seeing the dōjo
project develop and grow over the coming months.<br />
It’s incredible learning of the resources that surround us, and how sharing time and knowledge can build something amazing.<br />
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From this… …to this!</div>
(Max)<br />
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Original article at <a href="http://isumi-style.com/en/?p=374">Isumi Life Style Laboratory</a><br />
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-87517511509964940032017-04-30T20:51:00.000-07:002017-04-30T20:51:36.604-07:00Peace and Permaculture Dojo Tour and Culture (April 2017)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Come join me on a tour of the sprouting Peace and Permaculture Dojo!<br />
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This is where we are at six months into the project (<a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2017/01/peace-and-permaculture-dojo-in-japan.html" target="_blank">here is the first English article about the Dojo</a>). I just got back from a three month Asia and Australia tour so my friends have been moving things along. We have had an amazing <i>daiku </i>(carpenter) who has been intensely building a relationship with the <i>kominka</i> (old Japanese house). The 100 year-old wooden house is tilted, so everything that he fixed is fixed to the angle of the tilt. WOW! The building rests on stones as a foundation, and after so many years, some of the stones have sank, and the wooden building has tilted.<br />
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What we are growing here is peace culture. Japan is rapidly shifting from a pacifist country toward a more robust aggressive military power. US pressure on Japan to increase military capacity has been increasing and the Japanese military industries have probably been lobbying pretty hard for revamping their industry. This is a historic shift since the Japanese Military Empire was A-bombed by the US Military Empire. Our hope is that, like Gandhi's ashrams, the Possibility Alliance in Missouri, Casa De Paz in California, Plum Village, and many other places to practice peace, this can be part of the global peace infrastructure during the Great Turning.<br />
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Even without that, we are facing consistent high rates of suicide, school/business bullying, sexual harassment, depression, apathy, depopulation of rural areas (ghost-towning of Japanese villages), exponential growth of national debt, an unprecedented nuclear meltdown and growing <i>hibakusha</i> population, super-aging society, and loss of traditional skills and wisdom to name some of the big ones. Not a very hopeful time to be born in Japan....or the world. So, we're here to change that. I mean come on, is this the best we can do after thousands of years of human evolution?!!<br />
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It's also important for us to remember and renew interest in Japanese wisdom and design. There is something quite strange about spreading permaculture in a country that has had thousands of years of practicing it. At the same time, I can get more young people excited about self-sufficient (village<br />
-scale) ecological living if I call it permaculture than if I call it "traditional Japanese living." There are lots of other reasons for calling what we do permaculture, but I won't go into that for now. What I will say is that, we are developing a culture that is strongly influenced by the values and worldviews of the liberal West Coast (USA), and the beautiful relationship-based culture of rural Japan.<br />
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Below is a video of the traditional community dance ritual called <i>bon odori</i> practice session we did at the Dojo. A group from the "Bay Area of Japan" (<i>shonan</i>, Kanagawa prefecture) reclaimed this tradition, made original music and movements based on peace and ecology, and have been spreading it throughout Japan. The group is called <a href="http://www.imaginebonbu.com/" target="_blank"><i>imajin bonbu</i></a> (Imagine Dance Group ← Imagine is from John Lennon). We just finished the floors of the Dojo, so as a celebration event, we had a <i>bon odori</i> practice session and the founding of a local <i>bon odori</i> dance group.<br />
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*the video is in Japanese but toward the middle you can watch people practice/dance. The dance is not a performance dance, so practicing and dancing is pretty much the same. Anyone can join and leave at any time, and some communities will continue dancing for days. I heard that people go into a trance.<br />
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Here are some pictures from the DOJO<br />
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the TUP cameragirls Jun Jun and Nana</div>
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We have an amazing crew of people renewing Japanese culture</div>
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<b>VISITING / HELPING</b><br />
We're still no ready to officially receive guests, but if you have time and skills that we need, and we happen to be able to respond to your email/message, then something could happen. All we have right now is a roof and floor, compost toilet is almost done, and a rocket stove. Unfortunately, we don't have enough committed people on the ground to receive guests at the moment, and nobody lives at the Dojo yet. I want to say YES to everyone but we don't have the capacity to comfortably host yet....and every once in a while things work out so its not a definite NO either. I guess its always a MAYBE.<br />
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The IDEAL characteristics of a volunteer at the moment are<br />
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<li><b>can speak basic Japanese</b>: most of my team and the locals can only speak Japanese</li>
<li><b>patient</b>: our response time is slow, and we aren't always able to respond (feel free to remind us)</li>
<li><b>self-sufficient</b>: can take initiative and do a project, we also can't feed people yet like a WWOOF host, and it's basically like camping.</li>
<li><b>friendly</b>: as in likes people, because we have lots of people coming through!</li>
<li><b>low or no expectations</b>: the key to happiness</li>
<li><b>can stay about a week</b>: it takes energy and time to orient people so realistically, a week is about how much time it takes for someone to "help" us. If you can commit for months that would be amazing, and if you can commit for life.....now we're talking! </li>
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Next year (2018), we will hopefully have more structure (social and physical), and be able to host people! <br />
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Love you all, may we all embody peace in every aspect of our lives <br />
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For most recent events and picture check out the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%81%A8%E3%81%A8%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C%E9%81%93%E5%A0%B4" target="_blank">Dojo FB page</a></div>
Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-5002083832318683042017-02-19T17:19:00.001-08:002017-02-19T17:19:31.030-08:00FEB 25 Zen Permaculture Workshop in Melbourne<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Togetherness Design: Zen Permaculture workshop with Kai Sawyer</h1>
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by <a href="http://www.permablitz.net/author/cecelia-m/" rel="author" title="Posts by Cecelia Macauley">Cecelia Macauley</a> · February 25, 2017</div>
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<b>Date(s)</b> - February 25, 2017<br />
<b>Time</b> - <i>11:00 am - 3:00 pm</i><br />
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What is it like to do meaningful work every day, without asking for money, floating through life on a bubble of love?<br />
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Now you can meet someone who’s been doing it since 2011, with beautiful results: The amazing Kai Sawyer is in town!<br />
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This is a Half-day presentation and active workshop gifted by Kai, with a shared lunch.<br />
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Kai is the founder of <a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Tokyo Urban Permaculture</a>, and is the inspiration behind its initiatives.<br />
He runs workshops on the gift economy, systems thinking, deep mindfulness, NVC empathetic communication, and how to escape <a href="http://livingstingy.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/salaryman-trap.html" target="_blank">the salaryman trap</a>.<br />
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Kai
went to school at the illustrious Tokyo University. If you’re Japanese,
you’ll know how impressive this is! That’s because studying there means
you get to run Japan. Let’s hope he does!<br />
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The presentation will
be on creating lively networks of support, rather than trying to do
things alone. It’s also on Empathetic Communication. Just a slight shift
of perception can dramatically transform our world, side-steping the
communication malfunctions that are usual for we humans.<br />
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It’s at a private house, and places <i>are</i> limited. If you wish to attend, just fill in the form below and we’ll confirm you<span class="text_exposed_show">r place and then reply with all the details.</span><br />
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<b>What’s happening</b><br />
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<b>11.30 – 12.30</b>
We will gather together in a house in Fairfield (not far from a train
station!) The first hour Kai will present on creating a social ecosystem
that you love being in. He shares insights from his year of living in a
food forest, his work with <a href="http://www.cityrepair.org/" target="_blank">City Repair</a>
in Portland Oregon, and the ways of being encoded in Japanese
traditional culture can make a more convivial, thoughtful life possible.<br />
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<b>12.30</b> Lunch, Networking. Please bring a healthy dish to share!<br />
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<b>1.30 – 3.00</b>
Empathetic Communication Experience. Kai has done this workshop all
over Japan, and says it just ‘tickles his soul’ every time he does it.<br />
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You know how when someone leaves dirty dishes around and you are upset?
It’s not about dishes. What is it about? Sometimes we often don’t even
know ourselves!<br />
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You can create around yourself a network of
effective allies, to make your lovely visions a daily reality. WWOOf
Volunteers, the share economy, are all there for you.<br />
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With the
resources and nature (flawed and wonderful) that you already have, you
can create a home and work environment that will take care of you,
freeing you up to do good work for the world<br />
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Kai will also share
some of his own projects to inspire your own: his year of living in the
Eden-like food forest, sleeping in a fully-furnished bedroom without
walls. Crowdsourcing a book, and recently being gifted enough to create
the Permaculture Dojo: renovating a traditional farmhouse for co-working
on thrilling projects, outside Tokyo, fueled by shared dinners and
shared dreams.<br />
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<b>Cost:</b>
Workshops are gifted, complelety free of obligation to give back, with
no set donation amount. There is the option to gift Kai with whatever
you would like him to have, to enable him to continue this work.</div>
<span class="text_exposed_show">A message from Kai to Permies:</span><br />
<b>Gift Economy and donations write up</b><b><br /> </b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/p/gift.html&source=gmail&ust=1487196826774000&usg=AFQjCNHobap3FgX2Z1VYCkN8R6oaB73atg" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/p/gift.html" target="_blank">http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/p/gift.html</a> *<b><br /> </b><br />
*I would love for people to read this before they attend<b><br /> </b><br />
<b><br /> </b><b>Empathy space (aka NVC Needs Poker)</b><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">This
is an activity to share our struggles and celebrations (to whatever
depth we want to), and just receive empathy. It’s not about “fixing” or
judging or analyzing or strategizing, and its all about just being with
what is. We will gently go beyond the words, beyond the “problem”, and
into the deeper needs or yearnings of each of us.</span><br />
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It is a
simple design (easily replicable) to create the conditions necessary for
us to give and receive empathy, and all the beauty that unfolds from
there. One of the most effective approaches to transforming our
conflicts, relationship challenges, and unwanted habits. Getting to the
heart of whats important, in a short amount of time. No experience
necessary, just your presence and willingness.<br />
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,<br />
there is a field. I will meet you there.”<br />
-Rumi<br />
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Short and lovely video on Empathy by Berne Brown:<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="text_exposed_show"><b>A note about social permaculture</b><br />
NVC and mindfulness has taught me how to engage with conflicts
peacefully and on a good day, joyfully. It has allowed me to shift my
focus from “being nice” to being more real and authentic in a loving
way. As my teacher Miki Kashtan says, maximum honesty with maximum care.
And I’ve learned how much our worldview and language creates conflicts
without even our awareness, and perpetuates the domination paradigm that
we participate in unknowingly.</span></span>In my journey I have
visited a few amazing permaculture sites and intentional communities
where human relationships (conflicts) made it the main reason people
left. Sometimes plants are easier to understand then humans! Very
tragic.My main interest is how to cultivate a healthy human ecology,
where everyone’s life (and needs) is considered equally important. I’ve
been trying to understand the invisible structures that have a large
impact on our collective behaviors, how to transform oppressive cultural
systems (inside and outside of us), and how to regenerate our nature of
compassion and generosity.<br />
<blockquote>
"I want permaculture to
help all people thrive, not just the privileged but those who are deeply
trapped in violent social structures (e.g. African Americans, refugees,
children in Fukushima, etc). That is the design challenge!"</blockquote>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-48766967296870339482017-02-18T16:51:00.000-08:002017-02-18T16:51:25.361-08:00【FEB 22 6pm】Presentation in Symour Australia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-14708348419556185702017-02-15T18:27:00.000-08:002017-02-15T18:27:40.208-08:00FEB 19 & 20 Sydney 【Zen Permaculture】 Workshop Details<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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*details on events in Seymore and Melbourne can be found <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/feb-2017-workshops-in-australiaws.html" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<span class="_4n-j _3cht fsl" data-testid="event-permalink-details" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><b>Schedule on Sunday FEB 19 at Ceciia's:</b><br />11.15 for 11.30 start.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />11.30
- 12.30 We will gather in Cecilia's home-studio, Annandale. The first
hour Kai will present on creating a social ecosystem that you love being
in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />12.30 Lunch, Networking. Bring a healthy dish to share.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />1.30 - 3.00 Empathetic and Juicy Communication.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="_4n-j _3cht fsl" data-testid="event-permalink-details" style="font-size: 14px;">It could be like floating on a bubble of love: Slighty scary, somewhat uncertain, and full of welcome surprises.</span><br />
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<span class="_4n-j _3cht fsl" data-testid="event-permalink-details" style="font-size: 14px;">This week you get to meet somebody living this way. The amazing Kai Sawyer hasn't charged for his work since since 2011, with beautiful results.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="_4n-j _3cht fsl" data-testid="event-permalink-details" style="font-size: 14px;">He runs workshops internationally on the gift economy, deep mindfulness, empathetic communication, and how to escape the salaryman trap.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="_4n-j _3cht fsl" data-testid="event-permalink-details" style="font-size: 14px;">Kai will share some of his own projects to inspire your own: his year of living in the Eden-like food forest, sleeping in a fu<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">lly-furnished bedroom without walls. Crowdsourcing a book, and recently being gifted enough to create the Permaculture Dojo: renovating a traditional farmhouse, fueled by shared dinners and shared dreams.<br /><br />Kai went to school at the illustrious Tokyo University.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />If you are Japanese, that fact will impress you.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />That's because studying there means you get to run Japan.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Lets hope he does.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Learn how to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />- Create an 'Eco-system' of support around your projects.<br />- Remove the obstacles to being a great communicator<br />- Get a lightness about doing the big, beautiful things you thought were not possible.<br /><br />There are two events:<br />Sunday 19th<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />11.30am - 3.30pm<br />Cecilia's House Annandale<br />Bring a dish for a shared potluck lunch<br /><br />Monday 20th<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />6pm - 8.30pm<br />UTS 'The Hatchery' aka Innovation Lab<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />622/632 Harris St, Ultimo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Cost: Worshops are gifted, completely free of obligation to give back, with no set donation amount.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="_4n-j _3cht fsl" data-testid="event-permalink-details" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">*<span style="background-color: yellow;">Please read</span> <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/p/gift.html" target="_blank">Kai's views on the Gift Economy here</a> before attending</span><br /><br />How to RSVP:<br />Book your free Eventbrite ticket and, text Cecilia at O412474282 or PM on Facebook *Essential*. You will be sent details of what to bring, where to go, etc.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />__________________________<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>__<br /><br /><br />Schedule on Sunday at Ceciia's:<br />11.15 for 11.30 start.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />11.30 - 12.30 We will gather in Cecilia's home-studio, Annandale. The first hour Kai will present on creating a social ecosystem that you love being in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />12.30 Lunch, Networking. Bring a healthy dish to share.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />1.30 - 3.00 Empathetic and Juicy Communication.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">FEB 16 UPDATE - Cecilia's FB page and Melbourne event has been updated!!!</span></b><br />
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THIS MONTH - I will be doing workshops in Australia <br />
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オーストラリアでワークショップ/プレゼンするよ〜<br />
(英語で)<br />
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We are still finalizing the details but here is what I have so far<br />
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<b>2/18 Day event with <a href="http://balconyofdreams.blogspot.com.au/">Cecilia Macaulay</a> in Southern Highlands</b><br />
(<a href="http://balconyofdreams.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Cecilia Macaulay</a> and Annabel Brown from Southern Highlands Steiner School is organizing this event)<br />
Details will be posted on <a href="http://bit.ly/2kqrjBJ" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Cecilia's Facebook</span><span style="color: red;"> ← updated!</span></a> <br />
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<b>2/19 Day event with <a href="http://balconyofdreams.blogspot.com.au/">Cecilia Macaulay</a></b> in <b>Sydney</b><br />
Details will be posted on <a href="http://bit.ly/2kqrjBJ" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Cecilia's Facebook</span><span style="color: red;"> ← updated!</span></a><br />
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<b>2/20 Evening event with <a href="http://balconyofdreams.blogspot.com.au/">Cecilia Macaulay</a> </b>in<b> Sydney </b><br />
Details will be posted on <a href="http://bit.ly/2kqrjBJ" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Cecilia's Facebook</span></a><span style="color: red;"> ← updated!</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.abdallahhouse.com/2017/02/social-change-projects-from-around.html" target="_blank">2/22 Evening event in Seymore on Permaculture based Social Change Projects around the world</a></b><br />
(<a href="http://www.abdallahhouse.com/" target="_blank">Richard Telford</a> from Abdullah House is organizing it for me) <br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1298763130185478/" target="_blank">Facebook Event Info Here</a></span><br />
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<b>2/25 Event in Melbourne topic and venue to be decided</b><br />
(I think Richard Telford, and Adrian from Permablitz Melbourne is organizing this)<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/420131238325204/" target="_blank">Facebook Event Info Here <span style="color: red;">← updated!</span></a><br />
or on <a href="http://www.permablitz.net/events/togetherness-design-zen-permaculture-workshop-kai-sawyer/" target="_blank">Melbourne Permabliz <span style="color: red;">← updated!</span></a><br />
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Thank you to everyone helping me!<br />
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BELOW ARE THE TOPICS I NORMALLY OFFER IN JAPAN<br />
(What I initially sent to Richard and Cecilia)<br />
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*I'm quite
flexible so I can mix and match, redesign, cater, whatever seems most
exciting for the space. I can make things shorter too, but I like to go
deep and often that requires time. All I really need is people and place
and the rest we can make with onsite resources!<br />
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<b>My journey with permaculture and inspiring permaculture stories from the West Coast</b> 2~3 hour presentation<br />
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<div>
This
is my story of exploring the world of "peace" and "sustainability".
From the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to living in the jungle of Costa Rica
with no running water or electricity, to my visits to various amazing
permaculture communities. My story focuses more on people and
relationships (social permaculture), social change and empowerment,
rather than food production. I end with how I am cultivating the
cultural soil to plant radical practices of peace and ecology through my
project called Tokyo Urban Permaculture. </div>
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The permaculture and social change projects I focus on are</div>
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<li><a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/articlethe-bullocks-permaculture.html" target="_blank">Bullocks Permaculture Homestead (rural, apprenticeship program)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/articlethe-city-repair-project-and.html" target="_blank">City Repair Portland (urban, social change)</a></li>
</ul>
Both
show case not just food systems but thriving communities that are
impacting the larger society. The Bullocks is a rural example where 12
interns are trained each year to learn any skill they want and
experiment with designing culture/community. City Repair is an urban
example of residents reclaiming public space and illegally taking over a
intersection, creating a beautiful mandala painting, earthen benches,
kids playhouse, free tea station, etc. Eventually the persuaded the city
government that it was for the public good, and their illegal action
has been legalize (they call it legal innovation). Now the city actively
promotes this behavior and City Repair has pioneered urban ecological
design and community renewal.<br />
Powerpoint Presentation with beautiful pictures<br />
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<b>Nonviolent Communication (NVC)</b> 2~3 hour workshop or whole day<br />
This
is an experiential workshop on how to interact with each other and
yourself in a way that aims to nourishe everyone. How do we communicate
in our full authenticity while holding others with
loving care? How do we shift from a power-over paradigm to a power-with
paradigm, where all life matters equally? Why do we get stuck in
conflict, and how can we navigate beyond it? We will explore these
questions through powerful interactive practices. <br />
By changing
our worldview and connecting with needs (rather than our judgements),
we will be able to engage with conflict, whether in our family, work, or
in social change work, comfortably and compassionately. <br />
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Below is an add for a whole day NVC and systems thinking workshop<br />
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.sg/2015/11/dec-4-2015-kai-sawyer-on-nonviolent.html&source=gmail&ust=1486956534497000&usg=AFQjCNGvLHI_tKRs5FlTrrBB6ej4iESNnA" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.sg/2015/11/dec-4-2015-kai-sawyer-on-nonviolent.html" target="_blank">http://livingpermaculture.blog<wbr></wbr>spot.sg/2015/11/dec-4-2015-<wbr></wbr>kai-sawyer-on-nonviolent.html</a><br />
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<b>Zen and living mindfully </b><br />
This is a workshop where we will <u>experience</u>
mindfulness by just practicing what we do everyday with mindfulness. We
will do mindful walking, mindful eating, mindful resting, mindful
sharing, and most importantly mindful breathing. It will be a time to
just be, experience the miracle of being alive, and be present with
reality rather than our thoughts. Simple and effective practices that
you can do anytime anywhere. Inspired by the teachings of zen master
Thich Naht Hanh and the daily practice at Plum Village. Let us enjoy
slowing down, being present, and feeling refreshed.<br />
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<b>Adventures in the world of the Gift Economy 2 ~ 3 hour presentation/workshop</b><br />
An
overview of what the gift economy is, how it is at the foundation of
how our world works. From understanding that our earth is a gift
ecology, to various forms of gift economies that we are already
participating in, we will explore the gift economy through exciting
examples and inspiring stories (e.g. our birth, open source, Burning
Man, Karma Kitchen, Vinoba Bhave). I will share how I started to
consciously participate in the gift economy, shift my life from worrying
about making money to living in service, and living in a world of
pricelessness. There will be an experiential activity to have a taste of
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and live a most amazing life. I live on donations from thousands of
people, and I live in a world of interdependence where trust and care
flow naturally. I make less decisions based on fear and feel more free
and alive. This is an invitation to live a more hopeful, more free, and
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hard to make changes even if we know there is a problem? Where are the
leverage points for change? By using games we can have fun, better
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can talk about how I made the Urban Permaculture Guide book starting
with no money and no desire to write it myself. Over 15 people, many
professionals, willingly volunteered to make the book and through
crowdfunding, we made an amazing glorified zine that is in its 4th
printing. The bookmaking process itself was an experiment in social
permaculture by using onsite resources and designing beneficial
relationships. The book is a synthesis of cultural regeneration for a
more sustainable Tokyo and Japan. More info here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.sg/2015/01/japanese-urban-permaculture-guidebook.html&source=gmail&ust=1486956534497000&usg=AFQjCNG6Dohve6sedbc4aQdy7KDSVBXBIA" href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.sg/2015/01/japanese-urban-permaculture-guidebook.html" target="_blank">Urban Permaculture Guidebook (crowdsourced crowdfunded zine)</a><br />
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Urban Permaculture Guide was both an experiment in social permaculture
and the gift economy, as well as developing the cultural soil for the
Peace and Permaculture Dojo (PPD). The PPD is another experiment in
dynamic social design, where my main role is to set favorable conditions
for a human guild to thrive. We just finished crowdfunding about
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial unicode ms";">Kai is a nonviolence activist or </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms明朝";">共生革命家</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms明朝";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">in Japanese.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";">Born</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial unicode ms";"> in Tokyo, raised in rural Japan (Minami Uonuma),
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial unicode ms";">After the September 11<sup>th</sup>
2001 terrorist attacks in the USA and subsequent US invasions, Kai began to
engage with issues of war, structural violence, intergenerational justice,
agroecology and sustainability, while attending the University of California
Santa Cruz. He became the co-chair for the Education for Sustainable Living
Program (ESLP), a radical educational experiment that collaborated with
world-class sustainability leaders such as Vandana Shiva, Satish Kumar, and
Frances Moore Lappe. ESLP facilitated institutional change through student
empowerment and participatory action research.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial unicode ms";">He founded Tokyo Urban Permaculture
as an experiment to fundamentally transform the culture and politics of Tokyo,
after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in 2011. He teaches permaculture,
nonviolent communication, mindfulness, systems thinking, social change and
about the gift economy (gift ecology) around the world. Currently, he is
training youth activists in Japan on nonviolence, and is developing a “Peace
and Permaculture Dojo” to train the next generation of change makers in Japan.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial unicode ms";">He is passionate about life,
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-34929036653639425462017-02-06T01:59:00.000-08:002017-02-06T01:59:29.934-08:00【ARTICLE】Natural Farming in Japan: Akame-shizenoh Juku<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an article I wrote about the natural farming movement in Japan and Akame natural farming school. The article was for a
crowdsourced book called <a href="http://cultureofpermaculture.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable (R)evolution</a>
(click to check out this amazing project!). I also wrote articles on
the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead, the City Repair movement in Portland, the ecofarm movement in Thailand, and on
chinampas.<br />
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For more on natural farming (besides the well-known Fukuoka, Masanobu), you can search Kawaguchi Yoshikazu and akame (the topic of this article), and I highly recommend checking out the book (free online) <a href="http://imaginepeace.com/miracleapples/" target="_blank">Miracle Apples</a>. <br />
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Kawaguchi, Yoshikazu in his garden </div>
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The traditional method of drying rice and hand-powered threshing </div>
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Yoshikazu in his rice-field cutting weeds with his kama </div>
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Akame natural farming school </div>
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Cutting the above-soil parts of the weeds in preparation for planting </div>
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Planting negi (green onion) in the garden </div>
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Broadcasting directly into the weeds </div>
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The harvest hidden amongst the weeds </div>
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<b>Akame-Shizenoh Juku</b></div>
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A farming method that did not involve any pesticides or fertilizer
use was first advocated by Japanese philosopher, holistic health practitioner, and
spiritual leader Mokichi Okada. In 1950 he called his practice the "shizen
noh hou" or the natural farming method. A decade later, plant pathology scientist
and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka also experimented with similar methods, but further
extended natural farming methods to include no tilling and no weeding. In 1975,
he published <u>The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming</u>.
Fukuoka's impassioned advocacy of natural farming eventually made him a revolutionary
figure in the global movement for sustainable agriculture. Passing away in 2008,
Fukuoka did not live to see the revolution in consciousness he had hoped for, but
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Today, a central hub for the natural farming movement is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akame-Shizenoh Juku</i> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akame-juku</i> for short) , nestled near the
border of Nara and Mie Prefecture. The site was originally an abandoned series of
rice paddy and garden terraces surrounded by man-made forest. Seeing the need for
a place where people could come to learn natural farming, Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, the
respected practitioner and teacher of natural farming, reclaimed the terraces and
started <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akame-juku</i> in 1991. The school
is completely donation-based, each student paying what they can afford. Kawaguchi
understood that most people attempting natural farming were at a major turning point
in their lives and often had no money, whether they be conventional farmers trying
to switch farming methods, white collar workers looking for a new way to live, or
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>students. He says that as a teacher, he wants
to teach as many eager students as possible, and that he believes the quality of
learning is richer when unobstructed by financial concerns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning how to live life, which natural
farming essential is, must be accessible to all people.</div>
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Yoshikazu also believes that freedom is essential for learning,
so there are no obligatory group tasks, however, communal endeavors are a
valuable opportunity to learn from one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Students are free to spend however much time they can afford in their rice
paddies and gardens. Each new student is able to choose a plot among the fields
and paddies that become available throughout the year enabling them to direclty
put to practice what they learn. Every second weekend of every month (except January),
Kawaguchi gathers all the staff members for a monthly gathering. Anybody can come
to receive guidance by Kawaguchi and various staff members, cultivating their awareness
and experiencing deep realizations about natural farming. The basic principles practiced
at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akame-juku</i> are, no tilling, no treating
plants or insects as your enemies, and no using pesticides or fertilizers, including
compost. Farming must be based on an understanding and respect for nature's dynamic
balance that, if approached correctly, will work to nurture life as a whole. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are guiding principles that are based on
a holistic understanding of farming as a part of an ecological balance that we take
part in cultivating. An example is Kawaguchi’s instruction for managing
vigorous volunteer plants that are overwhelming seedlings: using a sickle as
necessary, trim them at the base above their roots, so as not to disturb the
soil structure.</div>
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The plants here are not treated as competitive weeds, but instead
used as mulch and are not totally removed so as to leave food for insects. Food
scraps from the harvest taken out of the fields may also be brought back to the
fields. This is not fertilizer, but nutrients brought back as supplement simply
to maintain the nutrient cycle. Students at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akame-juku</i>
experiment and learn how to nurture life through minimal interference in the natural
cycle. Through this practice, they also nurture ecological balance, their own consciousness,
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As <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akame-juku</i> hosts
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the school opened. Today, dozens of natural farming schools inspired by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akame-juku</i> can be found all over Japan. Kawaguchi
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The path of natural farming is one of humility, deep observation,
and constant flexibility. Kawaguchi says that he accepts that he cannot fully understand
nature, but rather can only assist in nature’s cycles as best he can. Natural farmers
realize the futility of imposing control over nature and the unsustainability of
standard agriculture's attempts to artificially maximize yields and profits. Instead,
through minimal interference in the natural cycle, natural farmers in Japan and
elsewhere are showing the way to a healthy future for the earth and its inhabitants.</div>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-48076142107972611392017-02-06T01:40:00.001-08:002017-02-06T01:41:53.656-08:00【ARTICLE】Thailand Ecofarm: Maab Euang Agri-Nature Learning Center<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an article I wrote about Maab Euang eco-farm in Thailand. The article was for a
crowdsourced book called <a href="http://cultureofpermaculture.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable (R)evolution</a>
(click to check out this amazing project!). I also wrote articles on
the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead, the City Repair movement in Portland, a
brief overview of the natural farming movement in Japan, and on
chinampas.<br />
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*This is the closest to our final draft, I lost a picture of their really-floating garden.<br />
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A bit more info about them here on <a href="http://earthlimited.org/2010/11/04/further-reflections-from-thailand-learning-to-live-with-uncertainty/" target="_blank">Earthlimited</a>.<br />
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The Agri-Nature Learning Center at Maab Euang, called an
“eco-farm” in Thailand, was started by Dr. Wiwat Salayakamtorm in order to
develop practical solutions to environmental and socio-economic crises of
modern times. It is located in Maab Euang village in Chonburi province and was
founded in 2001 after Dr. Wiwat quit his job as a royal servant in order to put
into practice the King’s Sufficiency Economy philosophy. He adopted 16 acres of
his brother’s land and transformed the depleted hardpan earth into a productive
edible forest garden including several rice paddies and aquaculture farms. He
has studied permaculture and Fukuoka’s natural farming and it can be seen
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The Sufficiency Economy philosophy stresses the importance
of the middle path, and the need to balance forces of globalization with the
needs of local resilience. Sufficiency means moderation and self-immunity for
sufficient protection from internal and external shocks such as disease,
economic instability, and natural disasters. It is an approach to cope with the
rapidly changing natural and socio-cultural environments.</div>
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The motto of the eco-farm, “Learning by doing”, is put into
practice through the nine learning stations, 1. Rice growing 2. Household
product making 3. Biodiesel production 4. Charcoal making 5. Soil management 6.
Forest gardening 7. Natural healthcare 8. Water management 9. Natural building.
Workshops, internships, and visitations are donation-based as the King taught, “more
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During the 2011 floods that paralyzed the country the
eco-farm served as a survival shelter. According to Dr. Wiwat, the eco-farm
supported 500 internally displaced peoples for 2 months and sent rescue boats
to help survivors. They had also trained people for major flooding two years
prior to the 2011 floods. They continue to host survival camp for the general
public. They also have constructed a floating garden made from empty plastic
drums, bamboo, and a diverse variety of plants in preparation for future
floods.</div>
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Today, over 80 Agri-Nature Learning Centers have been
established throughout Thailand, and are hubs to teach sufficiency economy
based living to farmers, government, businesses, and the general public. All
centers also serve as survival shelters in case of crisis.<br />
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-39104251972174417552017-02-06T01:21:00.000-08:002017-02-06T01:21:17.615-08:00【ARTICLE】Chinampas: floating gardens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an article I wrote about chinampas, a mild fascination of mine. The article was for a
crowdsourced book called <a href="http://cultureofpermaculture.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable (R)evolution</a>
(click to check out this amazing project!). I also wrote articles on
the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead, City Repair movement in Portland, the ecofarm movement in Thailand, and a
brief overview of the natural farming movement in Japan. The article is just an overview based on my limited understanding so if you are into it, look deeper!<br />
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*I think this is the final draft, pictures are different from the book. <br />
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Model of what might chinampa agriculture might have looked like </div>
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Illustration to explain how chinampas were made</div>
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Chinampa building at the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead (WA, USA)</div>
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Banana chinampas in Thailand</div>
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Chinampa</div>
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Chinampa agriculture has been described as ”a self-contained
and self-sustaining system that has operated for centuries as one of the most
intensive and productive ever devised by man” (Chapin, 1988, p.2). A chinampa
is an agricultural field “island” constructed in shallow lake beds
traditionally shaped in a long rectangle like a typical garden bed. Chinampas form
a network of “floating” gardens on a body of fresh water (e.g. lake), and are often
associated with the Aztecs, who developed an intensive agroecological system
that can still be found in Xochimilco, Mexico. Before the Aztecs, the
lowland Mayans had been constructing chinampas, some of which were later occupied
and further developed by the Aztecs. This unique Meso-American agricultural system
exemplifies sustainable food production through its ability to maintain
continuous long-term and year-round productivity utilizing local resources.</div>
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The te<span style="font-family: Georgia;">rm chinampa is
thought to have come from Nauhatl words <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chinamitl</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pan</i>, meaning reed basket and
upon. The Nauhatl words appropriately describe the key characteristics of
chinampas, which were constructed by “</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">piling bed-clay and mud
from the lakes, aquatic plants, dry-crop silage, manure and silted muck upon
one another in precise layers between paralleled reed fences anchored in the
lake bottom” (Woodard, 2011). The construction process, as described by
Prutzman (1998), begins with Chinamperos using a long pole to find an appropriate
base. The dimensions of the chinampa are marked with reeds stuck into the ground.
These reeds are then smothered with mud excavated from around the base,
creating canals surrounding the chinampa for canoe access. Next, thick mats of
water lily and tule reeds are layered to create a nutrient-rich compost pile.
This is followed by another layer of mud mixed with soil from an old chinampa.
The sides of these garden beds are secured with posts interwoven with reeds or
branches. Finally, willow trees are planted around the edges to provide
structural support and create a favorable microclimate. Water flows through the
porous structure of these garden beds that are self-irrigated through capillary
action. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Soil fertility is renewed by scooping up
material from the bottom of the lake and canals onto the chinampa. Aquatic
plants are also cultivated in waterways as fertilizer, and are piled onto the
chinampa along with the mud. Planted willows contribute to fertility as foliage
falls on the garden beds, creating a nutrient-rich mulch. The leaves that fall
into the water feed the aquatic life and the nutrients will return to the lake
bottom, only to be scraped back onto the chinampa. The willow trees also
produce a microclimate by functioning as a windbreak and creating an air pocket
with higher temperatures and humidity, greatly reducing frost damage. </span></div>
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seedling germination beds and nurseries established at the edges of the
chinampa by forming low terraces. These terraces are perpetually moist and
humid, layered with nutrient-rich mud scooped from the bottom of the canal or
lake, an ideal environment for seedlings. A thick layer of mud is spread over a
bed of waterweeds, then after drying is cut into small rectangular blocks.
Small holes are made in each block and a seed or cutting is implanted, covered
by human or livestock manure. Reeds and newspaper were used to protect the
seedlings from the frost. Once ready for transplanting, cubes are cut and
planted into the designated location (Coe, 1964). This is a great example of “relative
location” as plants are propagated where they will be transplanted and
harvested, with little energy wasted for transport.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Chinampas are an excellent example of various
permaculture principles in play: the extensive utilization of onsite biological
resources (aquatic plants, willow), complete nutrient cycles, maximization of
edges (canals, seedling nursery), relative location (water source and garden
bed, seedlings), elements having multiple functions (reeds, willow), efficient
energy planning (irrigation through capillary action), etc. Chinampas are
ecologically elegant and highly productive, especially when compared to fossil-fuel-intensive
modern-day agriculture with heavy chemical inputs (fertilizers, pesticides) transported
from faraway factories. There is much that we can learn today about sustainable
food production from this ancient Meso-American agroecological system that is believed
to have provided sustenance for over a million Aztecs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">For a detailed discussion, see Spencer
Woodard’s article, “Chinampa: Raised-bed hydrological agriculture.”</span></div>
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Chapin, M. (1988), The seduction of models. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grassroots Development</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12</i> (1).</div>
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Coe, M. D. (1964). The chinampas of Mexico. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scientific American, 211</i>, 90-98.</div>
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Prutzman, C. A. (1998). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
chinampas of the valley of Mexico: HBO Studio Productions</i> (Doctoral
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-53079200385892334802017-02-04T04:18:00.002-08:002017-02-04T04:18:52.837-08:00【ARTICLE】The City Repair Project and the Village Building Convergence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an article I wrote with my friend Adelaide on my favorite urban permaculture/social change movement, City Repair. The article was for a
crowdsourced book called <a href="http://cultureofpermaculture.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable (R)evolution</a>
(click to check out this amazing project!). I also wrote articles on
the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead, the ecofarm movement in Thailand, a
brief overview of the natural farming movement in Japan, and on
chinampas.<br />
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Mark Lakeman and the community of City Repair </div>
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Ariel view of one of the Intersection Repairs</div>
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Intersection Repair during the Village Building Convergence (a must experience!) </div>
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Urban retrofitting during the <a href="http://villagebuildingconvergence.com/" target="_blank">Village Building Convergence </a></div>
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Young volunteers learn from seasoned green builders to install light-straw clay insulation for an old home (aka <a href="https://planetrepair.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Planet Repair Institute</a>)</div>
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The Planet Repair Institute from the street</div>
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The pointy tower is the Cat Palace</div>
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The iconic Mermaid Bench</div>
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This is one of the many cob benches made on private property for the public (faces the street not the house)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The City Repair
Project and the Village Building Convergence</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">By Kai Sawyer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Established: 1996</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Land (Location/Site
Details/Facilities): Various intersections, residential and commercial sites,
and open spaces throughout Portland, Oregon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">People (Residents/Participants):
City Repair projects are accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands
of volunteer citizen activists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Shelter (Housing Model,
Building Techniques): </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">City Repair emphasizes low-cost, low-tech and ecologically
sustainable building techniques such as: cob, straw-bale, light straw clay, and
timber-frame. Several living roofs have been installed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whimsical and artistic structures are also
encouraged such as a mermaid cob bench, the chicken and cat palace, and a
beehive shaped newspaper dispenser. Building structures is an important
opportunity for skill-building, and volunteers help build as they learn green
building techniques.</span></div>
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(Aim/Focus/Purpose): “City Repair is an organized group action that educates
and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places
where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented
placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human
communities and the natural world.” From the City Repair website.</span></div>
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City Repair initiatives have reclaimed paved spaces for gardens (“Depave”) and
installed urban food forests. They have sprouted gardens and food forests
throughout Portland, from sidewalks to schools. Some residents have aquaculture
systems and are raising bees, chickens, and rabbits in their backyards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Education (Programs Offered,
Systems ): City Repair hosts various community workshops throughout the year.
Once a year, they organise the Village Buildling Convergence (VBC) where free
workshops are held in conjuction with neighborhood improvement projects
throughout Portland for 10 days. Concurrently with the VBC, the Village
Building Design Course is offered which explores placemaking indepth and trains
future placemakers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Governance (Decision
Making): Creative community-centered consensus often involving residents around
specific intersections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most projects
are decentralized and organized by site-based groups of people. The Board of
Directors, composed of committed CR volunteers meet regularly run the City
Repair non-profit. Projects such as Shift to Bike, Depave, and the Village
Building Convergence are supported by CR until they become autonomous
organizations.</span></div>
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City Repair<span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">City Repair (CR) is a
community-led urban regeneration movement rooted in “placemaking” that first
spread throughout neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon, and is now moving beyond.
From transforming street intersections into public gathering places to planting
urban food forests for public grazing, the diversity and scope of the CR
movement is extraordinary. Through a collaborative mix of permaculture, green
building, art, and celebration, a growing number of empowered citizens are
reclaiming urban space to create public place. CR defines placemaking as “a
multi-layered process within which citizens foster active, engaged
relationships to the spaces which they inhabit, the landscapes of their lives,
and shape those spaces in a way which creates a sense of communal stewardship
and lived connection.” </span></div>
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“repair” American cities, CR co-founder Mark Lakeman explains that </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while most
European and Latin American cities are built around plazas, and small villages
around central squares, the US was constructed following the Roman grid and
thus few towns and cities in the US have central meeting places. A
practical advantage inherent in the Roman grid, the design imposed on places
conquered by colonial powers starting with the Romans, is that people can be
more easily externally controlled because there is no place for them to come
together and create the power of community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">CR emerged from the idea
that “localization - of culture, of economy, of decision-making - is a
necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create
community-oriented places, community members plant the seeds for greater
neighborhood communication, empowering our communities and nurture our local
culture.” (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-reference: MS_1;">City Repair</a></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><a class="msocomanchor" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5140376099467331532#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" name="_msoanchor_1">[MS1]</a><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">). The movement sprouted in a backyard tea house made
from recycled material and piled with cushions that hosted weekly potlucks and
festivities. Mark recalls, “it was just a place for neighbors to sit down and
say hello and interact.” The gatherings grew to several hundred people before
the city condemned the illegal structure. This government intervention helped
catalyze the first CR action known as “Intersection Repair,” where a community
transforms an urban street intersection into a public square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Failing to gain the City
Hall’s understanding and permission, residents decided to reclaim an
intersection by getting together to paint a beautiful mandala and build little
structures on each of the corners. Children inspired the beehive-shaped cob
dispenser for the local newspaper (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Bee</i>) and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-reference: MS_2;">a kid’s clubhouse</a></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><a class="msocomanchor" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5140376099467331532#_msocom_2" id="_anchor_2" name="_msoanchor_2">[MS2]</a><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, where toys can be exchanged, built from drift wood.
Residents also built a 24-hour tea station, a community </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: Osaka;">bulletin board, a
little library, a stage, and a family-sized cob bench. Lakeman explains, “what
we were doing was we were seeding a garden of the village, we were regrowing
the village heart, with all of the functions and amenities that you’ll find.” </span></div>
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the benefits of Intersection Repair, such as beautifying the city, slowing down
traffic, reducing crime, and building community through increased neighborhood
interaction, all without spending any tax money, “the City Council legalized
this whole process for all 96 neighbourhoods of the City of Portland. Several
dozen intersection repair and other placemaking projects have have since been
accomplished, some in other states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These projects include installing gardens and cob benches in schools and
the construction of the Portland’s first straw-bale dwelling at Dignity
Village, a community of formerly homeless people. Many of these projects are
accomplished during the Village Building Convergence (VBC) that began in 2000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Billed by CR as "an annual ten-day placemaking festival
that combines crowdsourced activism, creative community development, hands-on
education and celebration", the (VBC) is where most of CR's endeavors come
together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During VBC days, individual communities work to physically
manifest their collective visions. These projects are unique to the
communities, based on their needs, culture, taste, and collective identity, and
have included such things as: neighborhood composting centers, a naturally
refurbished public pottery studio, corner free boxes, outdoor classrooms and
food forests at local schools, a tool lending library, and a neighborhood
playhouse for children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While projects are designed by the community, in an effort
to empower each community in their work, City Repair offers pre-VBC
facilitation, planning, fund-raising, and technical support. During the
VBC, skilled volunteers lead the construction and both visiting and community
volunteers come out to help turn the idea into reality. In exchange for
their time, volunteers learn new skills, receive locally donated food, build
relationships, and have fun. </span></div>
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participants to attend throughout the VBC. In the evenings, participants
from all of the different sites come together to celebrate their accomplishments,
listen to guest lecturers, eat a locally produced meal, dance to live music,
and develop an even more extensive community. In this way, the VBC is
creating a number of small villages within the city of Portland and then
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A number of out-of-town visitors come to the VBC each
year and have the opportunity to not only participate in all of the
neighborhood efforts, but also to stay with local host families. Many
visitors have been so inspired by the annual event that they have brought it
back to their own communities. Versions of the VBC can now be found in
places like Asheville, NC, Seattle, WA, Brookfield, VT and Ottawa, CA.
Throughout the years, the VBC has been recognized for creating community,
promoting sustainability, and increasing neighborhood safety, and as a result
gained strong support from city officials. <br />
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This is an article I wrote with my friend Scott on my favorite place to be, The Bullocks Permaculture Homestead. The article was for a crowdsourced book called <a href="http://cultureofpermaculture.org/" target="_blank">Sustainable (R)evolution</a> (click to check out this amazing project!). I also wrote articles on the City Repair movement in Portland, the ecofarm movement in Thailand, a brief overview of the natural farming movement in Japan, and on chinampas.<br />
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The Bullocks Permaculture Homestead culture </div>
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Small section of the forest garden (fruits, nuts, medicinals, nitrogen-fixers, pollinators, fuel, dynamic accumulators, you name it!)</div>
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chinampa!</div>
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*I think this was our final draft, and the pictures are different from the book<br />
<a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.sg/p/bullocks-permaculture-homestead.html" target="_blank">More about the Bullocks internship experience here with tons of pictures</a><br />
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Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead</div>
Orcas Island, Washington, USA<br />
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Through a combination of acute
observation skills, passion for homesteading, love of hard work, and a stream
of helpers, the Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead (BPH) functions as a home to
the Bullock family, a thriving nursery, and a training site for skilled and
inspired international permaculture practitioners. From the extensive
utilization of “waste”, to the homestead culture of joking, love of food, and
generosity, there is much that can be learned about living sustainably at the
site. BPH is located on Orcas Island, part of the San Juan Archipelago, which
lies in the rain-shadow of the Olympic Mountains and sits near the northernmost
extension of a cool maritime/ mediterranean climate zone. The property features
a variety of preexisting microclimates and soil types, rocky dry south-facing
hillsides, a marsh and a wet valley bottom. Since acquiring the original five
acres in 1982 and an additional five acres a few years later, the Bullocks have
transformed this piece of land from one dominated by briars across much of the
arable land into an innovative, productive and verdant paradise.<br />
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<b>Tools/Technology: Energy
Redefined</b><br />
Instead of thinking about energy
solely in terms of amps and watts, the Bullocks take a permaculture approach
that broadens the conventional definition to include ‘energy flows,’ feedback
loops, human and animal labor and other various forms utilized through the
organization of overlapping systems. Recognizing that the cheapest form of energy
comes from tasks being built into the natural flow of the property, feeding the
chickens or going out to pick a favorite fruit becomes an opportunity to stack
functions. While the larger goal might be eating a delicious peach or plum,
along the way they are able to actively engage with their system. By doing
this, they are able to achieve greater efficiency because their system
continues to be finely tuned.<br />
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Animals incorporated into the farm
ecology increase the fertility of the soil, keep vegetation in check and limit
pests. The Bullocks consider these energies to be vital to developing
closed-loop cycles because they translate into an overall reduction of inputs
needed from more traditional methods such as tractors to move manure.<br />
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As for heating and electricity
generation, the site is mainly solar-powered and wood-heated, with a small
amount of energy coming from the grid. Electricity for domestic use and
agricultural water pumping is generated by a few large solar arrays. A small
generator is used when electricity is needed remotely.<br />
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Water is stored in the landscape
in as many locations as available, convenient and as high in elevation as
possible in tanks and ponds. These reservoirs are fed using photovoltaic pumps
with a gasoline-powered pump serving as backup if needed. Water stored high in
the landscape acts like a battery, both by feeding water into the system when
the sun isn’t shining and as an emergency source in the event of a fire. The
distribution of water through piping from source to storage is divided
regionally, partially to protect against total system failure in the event of a
leak, but also because the nature of scavenging for equipment has led them to
use smaller pumps common in the early part of this century. These pumps have
lower power, but they match well with the “array direct” format of water pumping
used on the property. These regional systems are linked by valves, so water can
be fed from one to another when needed.<br />
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The greenhouse at the BPH is an
instructive example of how energy can be generated and stored creatively
through a stacking of functions. During the winter, residents use the
greenhouse as their kitchen, dining/living room, workshop, shower, propagation
space, etc. Cooking, activity and the wood stove provide heat. The wood stove,
while heating the greenhouse itself, also can heat an attached sauna which
doubles as a food dehydration room. A wood-fired water heater is used for needs
in the kitchen and for showers (solar showers are used in the warmer months).
Propane and wood are mainly used for cooking although the Bullocks have been experimenting
with rocket stoves and gasification stoves in an attempt to cook with local
fuel.<br />
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<b>Culture/Education: Learning
through Experimentation</b><br />
Although originally intended as a
private home for the Bullocks family, the homestead has evolved into an educational
space with regular visitors, a ‘skill builder’ program and two regular courses
each year. Visitors are welcome most weeks of the growing season to experience
permaculture living along with the skill builders. Each year the seven-month skill
builder program hosts twelve participants, who learn gardening, composting,
grafting, plumbing, building, welding, teaching, and communal living. Each
skill builder is assigned several garden beds, which provides them an
opportunity for them to experiment with, for example, chicken tractors, natural
farming, and vegetable varieties. As education is usually associated with the
work needs of the homestead, skill builders learn by doing. An intensive
three-week design course, taught by a team of highly experienced permaculture
instructors, focuses on the fundamentals of permaculture, systems thinking, and
integrated living, with shorter sessions, often led by visiting practitioners,
on animal tracking, permaculture in public schools, urban and social
permaculture among others.<br />
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<b>Building: Take Advantage of What
You Can</b><br />
When making decisions, the
Bullocks brainstorm about all of their possible needs, stacking as many
functions as possible into each new component of their system. This is
reflected in the structures built on the property, complete with food storage,
propagation areas, and passive solar heating. In replacing the failing
foundation of one existing home on the land, they took advantage of the
opportunity and constructed a bedrock-cooled root and wine cellar. A variety of
natural building styles are employed on the property including one home built
with salvaged lumber, insulated with light-straw clay walls, and finished with natural
plasters. The small houses are designed to be energy-efficient through the
use of wood-fired stoves, insulation and double-paned windows oriented towards
the winter sun.<br />
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During the warmer months, with
long days and mediterranean-style, temperate dry weather, most aspects of life can
be conducted outside. Through the use of open-air structures, the Bullocks
adjust living arrangements according to the seasons, as they have distinct warm
dry and cold rainy months. In the summer, the family and skill builders set up
outdoor kitchens and a tipi-style gathering space called the Aloha Lodge, where
meetings, meals, and lectures take place. Permanent structures, built for year
round residents, are designed small to contain heat and conserve resources,
while the simple summer structures are roofed and open-air to maximize comfort.<br />
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<b>Land/Nature Stewardship: Creating
a New Culture around Food</b><br />
Food is considered a central
element of the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead and much thought and enjoyment
is put into every part of the process: planting, harvesting, preparation,
consumption, and waste. The Bullocks take the permaculture principle “Share the
Surplus” to heart by hosting frequent large meals with the skill builders and
weekly potlucks for the surrounding community. Skill builders operate on a
schedule where they each take part in cooking for the rest of the group.<br />
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Although the homestead is not
self-sufficient in terms of food, it is full of many practical examples for
food security and serves as a “plant bank” for their region. The Bullocks are
passionate about fruit and nut trees and have a diverse collection of edible,
medicinal, and special-interest trees. Since the property sits in a rain shadow
creating slightly drier conditions than most of western Washington, they are
able to grow a wide range of plants, some requiring maximum heat exposure and
others needing a moderated position. Their careful study of the land allows
them to isolate tiny microclimates that are only warm enough to work for a
certain species. Their plantings consist of hundreds of food-producing shrubs,
vines, trees and perennials from around the world and include multiple
varieties of popular species. For instance, several dozen varieties of apples
and plums serve to lengthen the harvest season, bolster resistance to pests and
diseases, diversify uses (e.g. preserving, cooking), and enhance snacking
experiences.<br />
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Extensive use of grafting allows
for quicker harvests and other desirable properties. <i>Malus fusca</i>, commonly known as Pacific crabapple, grows like a weed
on the property and the fruit is usually unappealing. Since these trees thrive
in the area and have established root systems, the Bullocks have utilized them
by grafting these trees with tastier varieties of apples, and can sometimes
enjoy the new fruits the following year. They also have experimented with
intergenus grafts, a technique by which a twig of one genus is grafted onto a
different genus’ rootstock. For example, tasty pear varieties are grafted onto
the tops of the prevalent hawthorn, which has the advantage of being
deer-resistant and not requiring irrigation,
planting or fencing.<br />
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While planting trees for current
and future generations of people, the Bullocks are also providing habitat for
animals. Brush and stone piles and small zones are left wild throughout the
property to create habitat for the snakes and lizards that work to keep pest populations
down. The birds have the abundant fruit trees and shrubs (local birds prefer
smaller fruits) to snack on in the early summer. With nut trees continuously
being planted around the property the Bullocks have also seen a large rise in
the squirrel population; they are trying to come up with a solution to this
problem. The marsh, used by previous owners for cattle grazing and growing
potatoes, is now teeming with life, and is a popular spot for bald eagles and
blue herons. Chinampas (see p. x) , which were developed originally by the
Aztecs, have been adopted by the Bullocks and constructed in the marsh and
along the bank from prunings and excavated soil to create productive islands
that further increase the biological activity of the marsh.<br />
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The continued success of BPH is
due to the spirit of observation, experimentation and accepting feedback infused
into the culture of the farm. Novel approaches are constantly being tried— some
fail horribly and some succeed dramatically. The Bullocks make an effort to
incorporate new ideas on the homestead, with innovation often coming from
combinations of seemingly disparate elements. <br />
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-14635985684506650262017-01-16T01:46:00.001-08:002017-02-01T00:55:40.665-08:00Peace and Permaculture Dojo in Japan part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Happy 2017 (according to the Gregorian calendar)!<br />
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It has been a long while since I wrote in this dear blog. Most of my efforts has been toward my Japanese audience and I do wish I had the capacity to write bilingually with joy and ease.<br />
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Much is brewing in my journey with Tokyo Urban Permaculture (which is the name I started with but in many ways is misleading). The most recent big experiment is the Peace and Permaculture Dojo that has started in Isumi, Chiba. My fellow dreamers (TUP free agents) and I now have a 10 year lease on an old Japanese homestead, about 2.2 acres (0.9 hectares or 2700 tsubo), 2 hours outside of Tokyo.<br />
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The vision is to co-create a refuge/retreat for peace activists, and train the next generation of integral nonviolence practitioners. I want to put everything that I have been learning and practicing into this space, and live the change we wish to see in the world!!!<br />
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Things that we will explore, experiment with, and practice are<br />
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<li><b>permaculture</b></li>
<li> (inspired by Bullocks Permaculture Homested, City Repair Portland, etc)</li>
<li><b>integral nonviolence </b></li>
<li>(inspired by Casa De Paz, Possibility Alliance, Gandhian Iceberg, NVC, etc)</li>
<li><b>mindfulness</b></li>
<li> (inspired by Plum Village and Thich Naht Hanh, etc)</li>
<li><b>gift ecology </b></li>
<li>(inspired by EARTH, Goenka's vipassana centers, Vinoba Bhave, Service Space, etc)</li>
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My main collaborator Nao Suzuki's big inspiration is Asia Gakuin (Tochigi prefecture).<br />
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.....and many more inspirations from around the globe.<br />
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Anyways, hopefully I'll have time in the near future to post more info in English. For now, I just wanted to beak the silence (in English) and give a short update of our biggest experiment yet!<br />
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We are crowdfunding to fix the giant thatched house since it is quite beat.<br />
Check out the crowdfunding site for pictures and videos<br />
<a href="https://motion-gallery.net/projects/TUPcrowdfunding2" target="_blank">https://motion-gallery.net/projects/TUPcrowdfunding2 </a><br />
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by Fujisan (university student)<br />
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Japanese style permaculture!<br />
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<b>Our tentative plan is</b><br />
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2017<br />
Crowdfunding (until Jan 31st) <br />
Fix the main house. Renovation workshops (Jan ~ March)<br />
Property maintenance<br />
Start garden<br />
Observe and design the property, educational program, and social dynamics<br />
Do some workshops and retreats on nonviolence and permaculture<br />
Party?<br />
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2018 official apprenticeship program starts<br />
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We aren't prepared to have guests yet, but hopefully soon we will.<br />
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Warmly<br />
Kai<br />
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Hello from Union Station in Chicago<br />
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Just flew in a few days ago to visit my brother at <a href="http://tillersinternational.org/" target="_blank">Tillers International</a> <a href="http://tillersinternational.org/" target="_blank">(check it out)</a>, where he is learning how to farm with oxen, handle horses, weld, make rope, brooms, the list goes on. Yesterday, we went into Detroit and had an insightful tour of economic collapse and urban grassroots renewal by Richard Feldman of the <a href="http://boggscenter.org/" target="_blank">Boggs Center (check it out).</a> And now heading to the <a href="http://www.mensjournal.com/expert-advice/dropping-out-for-a-weekend-at-missouris-ecovillages-20150518/possibility-alliance" target="_blank">Possibility Alliance (check it out)</a> where my brother used to live, and that I have heard much about. PA seems to be a hub of inspiring people living in sacred integrity with the earth. No electricity, no fossil fuels, simple hand-and-earth-made living. Hard to find much info on them online but I've come to realize that the really amazing things cannot be found easily online.<br />
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Meanwhile in Japan, we signed a lease to start a Peace (nonviolence) and Permaculture Dojo for 10 years in Isumi, Chiba prefecture. The educational programs, nonviolent communication 6-day immersion training and permaculture design course have already started on my friend Phil Cashman's site in Southern Chiba. We're going to start renovating the old Japanese thatch-roofed <i>kominka</i> (means old house) and turn it into a guesthouse by April 2017.<br />
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The 2.5 acre lot was an old Japanese homestead with a mini cow barn, bamboo grove, fruit trees, rice paddies, and garden. Still off-grid too! More to come about that, but I'm hoping for it to be a refuge and training site for ecologically rooted peace activists. Part of my vision for growing social change infrastructure in Japan. Really hoping to keep the country from fully engaging in war. But, the military-industrial-complex is powering up and the government is trying their best to change <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution" target="_blank">article 9 of our pacifist constitution</a>. We're going to have to get really creative!<br />
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And we now have a website! Its mostly Japanese but I squeezed in some English.<br />
<a href="http://www.tokyourbanpermaculture.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tokyourbanpermaculture.com/ </a><br />
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<b>Here is the English message</b><br />
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Welcome to you English-reading friend!<br />
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GRATITUDE FIRST<br />
Thank you for finding your way to this website!<br />
Thank you internet for making this connection possible!<br />
Thank you Earth for being a most generous host!<br />
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ABOUT Tokyo Urban Permaculture<br />
Tokyo Urban Permaculture (TUP) is a project that Kai Sawyer started around 2011. He was a second-year permaculture apprentice at the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead when the Fukushima nuclear meltdown tragically occurred. He decided to venture into the heart of the problem, Tokyo, to explore what seeds of hope he could grow in the busy radioactive world that he was born in. <br />
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You can read more about Kai and the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead on his first blog: <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/p/about.html">Living Permaculture (about)</a><br />
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TUP started out as a place for Kai to share permaculture, compassionate communication (aka Nonviolent Communication), mindfulness (based on Thich Naht Hanh’s teachings), systems thinking through games, gift economy, and creative activism from primarily from the Bay Area of California. Workshops and presentations are primarily offered as a gift (more about the gift economy here) and anybody is welcome to join. Interventions and experiments such as guerrilla gardening, street meditations, youth climate change actions, and developing community gardens have been a central part of TUP activities.<br />
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2015<br />
A crowd-sourced and crowd-funded book-like zine, Urban Permaculture Guide, was published and has become one of the most read permaculture books in Japan. See <a href="http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2015/01/japanese-urban-permaculture-guidebook.html">Living Permaculture (book)</a> for more.<br />
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2016<br />
After several years of soil-building, TUP has now blossomed into a community of social change growers exploring how can we co-create a culture that is moved by love for the earth and peace. Activities are not limited to “Tokyo”, “Urban”, or “Permaculture”, but the focus is on regenerating Tokyo into a urban culture that supports life rather than consuming it. <br />
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Some concrete projects include<br />
this website! <br />
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<li>nonviolent communication activist training retreat </li>
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<li>PAWA Permaculture Design Course (with Phil Cashman and Kyle Holtzer) </li>
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<li>Commune Garden: a rooftop community garden in Omotesando, Tokyo </li>
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<li>Japan-centered permaculture design manual in Japanese (just sprouting) </li>
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<li>Permaculture and Nonviolence Dojo for training Japanese activists (just sprouting) </li>
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For most recent updates see the <a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.jp/">Tokyo Urban Permaculture blog</a>.<br />
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In some ways, TUP is just a name, a blog and website, a flag where people can come to for healing, hope, and action. The movement in Japan is much larger than TUP, and we are just another branch of an inspiring earth-wide movement. Nothing more exciting than this!<br />
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Since our focus is on supporting non-English-literate Japanese, most information is in Japanese…until we find someone passionate about translating for us. We love connecting with the English-literate too so feel free to write us or support us in any way! Just be warned that few of us are bilingual and so our responses might be rather slow. Reminders are welcome if you don’t get a response in a week or something like that. Since we are all volunteers slowly building up our social infrastructure, our capacity is still quite limited.<br />
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Thanks for reading and happy to be on the planet with you!<br />
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moved by love<br />
Kai and the inspiring TUP team<br />
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When you understand, you love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people. -Thay (TNH)<br />
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Farming is a way of life in which one constantly reaffirms the source of life. - Fukuoka Masanobu<br />
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Work is energy. Two crises of our times are intimately connected — the climate crisis and the unemployment crisis.....To make the energy transition beyond oil, we need to bring people back into the economy, bring human energy back into production, respect physical work, and give it dignity. - Vandana Shiva<br />
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-32545933271098060702016-07-14T19:32:00.000-07:002016-07-14T19:32:16.557-07:00JULY 24, 2016 Karma Kitchen Tokyo & My mini update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
QUICK UPDATE (Karma Kitchen is below)<br />
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Hey all<br />
So much to share but just haven't gotten around to posting in English. Sorry! But, if you use google translate and check out Tokyo Urban Permaculture, you might get a glimps....or maybe its finally time to learn Japanese!<br />
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I recently visited Satish Kumar at Schumacher College, spent over a week at Plum Village France, went to an AWAKIN CIRCLE in Paris, and finished it off with my first visit to Hunderwasserhaus! So much inspiration.<br />
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When I came back the community garden I decided to start the day before I left for my trip was bumpin with food! Yes! How to design yourself out of projects you start, that has been the edge I'm exploring. Nation elections were also happening so I helped anti-war, anti-nuclear power, peace and democracy advocate Miyake Yohei (reggae musician) try to get votes. He didn't make it but he has sparked an interesting youth-centered participatory democracy movement. And and, it looks like we are going to seal the deal soon with the landlord of the future Peace and Permaculture (nonviolence) Dojo in Chiba. Next year I'm hoping to take on some interns, and do a few longer-term workshops like a PDC, nonviolent communication retreat, mindfulness retreat, etc. Japan is happening!!!!!<br />
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Oh yeah, <a href="http://www.tokyourbanpermaculture.com/" target="_blank">Tokyo Urban Permaculture Website</a> is almost in full swing!<br />
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Love<br />
Kai <br />
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<span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">(English below)</span><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">カルマキッチンとは、恩送り(ペイフォーワード)が</span><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">体験できるランチイベントです。</span><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">居合わせた人と交流しながら食事をするイベントですが、</span><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">普通のレストランと違うのは、お客さんがお店に着くと、</span><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">「あなたの食事のお代は、前の方からいただいています。</span><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">ですから、支払う義務はありませんが、</span><br style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;" /><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">次の人に優しさを送ることもできます」</span><span style="color: #4b4f56; display: inline; font-family: helvetica,arial,"hiragino kaku gothic pro",meiryo,"ms pgothic",sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;"><br />と言われるところです。<br /><br />カルマキッチンでは、まず前の参加者からの<br />「優しさの贈り物」としての食事を楽しんでください。<br />食事後には、次の人に「優しさ」を送る人もい<span style="display: inline-block;"></span>るし、<br />ボランティアをする人や自分の特技を見せることで<br />「優しさ」を次の人に送る人もいます。<br />それが恩送りの体験になります。<br /><br />このたび、そんなカルマキッチンを、<br />手話が公用語のスープカフェ「Sign with Me」で<br />開催することになりました。<br />お子様連れも、外国人も、手話が第一言語の人も、大歓迎で<span style="display: inline-block;"></span>す。</span></div>
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greetings! You are cordially invited to join us at the 14th Karma
Kitchen event on 24th July. This is a lunch event where guests interact
with each other over a meal. Step into the restaurant and you will be
treated to a meal, paid by our previous customers. You have no
obligations to pay, but you are free to send your kindness and regards
to the next customer. Experience “paying forward”.<br /><br />At this Karma
Kitchen event, all you need to do is to receive a gift to you from
previous participants and enjoy your meal. After your meal, you will be
given an envelope. You are free to put in any amount of money you wish
to pass on, or you could express your gratitude in any shapes and sizes,
by performing a song, doing a good deed and so on.<br /><br />The 14th
Karma Kitchen event will be held at a soup café called “Sign with Me”,
where the lingua franca is Japanese Sign Language. Don’t worry, of
course, if you don’t know sign language. It is also an opportunity to
experience diversity. Anyone and everyone is welcome! </span></div>
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are not able to make it due to any reason, so that we can allow more
participants to join us.<br /><br />Hope to see you on 24 July!</span></div>
Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-22180760498390130242016-02-24T19:36:00.000-08:002016-02-24T19:41:33.182-08:00Tokyo Urban Permaculture 2016 Plans!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Permaculture, nonviolence, gift economics, and more!!!</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ll just share the highlights for now since the longer I write the less likely I’ll finish the post. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve been putting a lot of energy into teaching things I love (e.g. permaculture, NVC, mindfulness, etc), doing experiments (e.g. guerrilla gardening in Tokyo, gift economy inspired book and tour), and connecting with lots and lots of people. Now I think we’ve done enough soil building to start planting a forest garden of social change.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">From Tokyo Urban Permaculture (which is not actually limited to Tokyo, Urban, or Permaculture) being “my” project, I am shifting it to be a more community-based endeavor. A fun three-letter umbrella that can be used to connect people, provide legitimacy for projects, and propagate the idea that permaculture is not just about rural self-sufficiency.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What happens under the name of Tokyo Urban Permaculture (TUP) is a mix of </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and most importantly fun!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This year, we (TUP) are hoping to creating more opportunities for people to activate, get their hands dirty, and know there is a physical place they can go to (so far its just been my blog). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">MARCH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Currently, I’m in Goa in an area lightly developed for tourists (not a hint of the rave scene that most people associate with Goa). What has been quite pleasant to see is cows roaming around, even in the main street, and lots of fruiting perennials. Tons of coconut trees in gardens, common spaces, and along roads. Many mango trees, guava, banana, papaya, pomegranate, cashew, and other ones I don’t know. Wonderful to be surrounded by fresh food (the fruits not the cow)!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://murmurmagazine.com/booksandmagazines/#sec01" target="_blank">Murmur magazine</a> (who published the Urban Permaculture Guide) will publish a special on permaculture. They have a young alternative dedicated readership so I think it will boost curiosity and commitment. They’ve also interviewed Masanobu Fukuoka’s grandson in the past, who inherited part of Masanobu’s legacy but has made some fundamental changes. No time to discuss that now.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We’re also planning to make a comprehensive permaculture manual featuring traditional and emergent Japanese designs (ethno-ecological and socio-cultural) in the next year. Not sure yet if we will design the book for just domestic use or for an international audience. We will see.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Permaculture has been featured more and more in the media, even in Casa Brutus (a mainstream magazine that is sold in most convenience stores….meaning almost everywhere in Japan). We just need more physical examples to inspire people.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>PAWA PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Phil Cashman, Kyle Ho, and I will be launching a PDC at <a href="http://permaculture-awa.wix.com/permaculture-awa#!home/mainPage" target="_blank">PAWA in Chiba</a>! I think only Permaculture Center Japan (PCCJ) has been offering PDCs in Japan, so this will be a great chance to add diversity and increase opportunities to learn about permaculture design. Phil and I have been talking about how many opportunities related to permaculture are coming to us, but we don’t have time and energy to receive them all. The problem is the solution! We need more permaculture teachers and designers. Yes!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve also wanted to collaborate with Phil and Kyle for several years so this is a dream come true! It’s going to be a multi-cultural PDC in Japanese with permaculture home stays at 3-different sites. The course filled up soon after we posted the ad so looks like we’ll need to do another one soon. At the same time, all three of us are more into hands-on stuff then lecturing about design, so we’ll see what happens after this first one.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>COMMUNE 246 URBAN GARDEN PROJECT</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Commune 246 is a Portland inspired multi-purpose space in the heart of the youth fashion district in Tokyo. It’s more commercial than I enjoy, but it’s a dynamic multi-cultural gathering place with many young creative professionals. The space is a mix of Portland-style food carts designed by architecture students at Tokyo University, a co-working office space, and Freedom University (like free school in the sense of “free” topics but Tokyo prices). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After a year of talking about urban permaculture, building relationships, thinking and proposing designs, we finally got the green light to install a roof-top garden! Yah mun!!! They already have food carts and a marginally used worm bin, so all they need is a bump`n garden. The design will focus on inspiring aesthetics (looks are essential here), producing edibles for the food carts, and cycling organic matter (food-cart, compost, garden, food-cart). My hope is that this will lead to more opportunities to make community gardens in Tokyo, and mobilize media, social and financial capital. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Homepage of <a href="http://commune246.com/" target="_blank">Commune 246</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here is the <a href="https://freedom-univ.com/lecture/urbanparmaculture.html/" target="_blank">ad for the garden making class</a> (also filled up in a few days)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">*The Next Phase*</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve always wanted to have a physical place to grow a forest garden and learning community. Inspired by places like the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead (Washington), Casa De Paz (California), Plum Village (around the world), Schumacher College (U.K.), and Pun Pun farm (Thailand), it’s time that I start a longer-term land-based project. My focus is to explore what Satish Kumar phrases as the trinity of our time, soil, soul, and society.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Like the Bullocks, I want to offer a skill-building residential program particularly for youth, which in the permaculture field seems to be non-existent in Japan. I also want to explore and practice ahimsa or nonviolence, and experiment with social activism (i.e. changing educational, political and economic institutions). So, this will be a big experiment, to integrate permaculture, NVC, mindfulness, giftivism, and FUN! A place to be the change we wish to see in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At the moment, I’m looking for land on the East-side of the Boso Peninsula, Chiba. Mainly because I want to work with Phil who lives in that region, and I want to have access to Tokyo (my target population). But, Shonan (South Kanagawa) is tempting and is also a possible area. More on this to come.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A chance to explore nonviolence in practice, and jam-out with those dedicated to NVC in Japan, in a permaculture setting. Hoping to organize regular retreats and practice groups in the future. April 17~22</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.awakin.org/local/" target="_blank">Awakin circles</a> have deeply moved me and I think it will really help the development of my consciousness around nonviolence and giftivism (gift economy). It’ll be another great chance to practice giving from the heart, and developing the gift economy in Tokyo! Starting April or May?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.in/2016/01/blog-post_28.html" target="_blank">Satish Kumar Tour UK</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tour to learn with Satish Kumar at Schumarcher College. Satish has been a huge inspiration to me since my days at University of California Santa Cruz, and now I have a chance to take people to spend a week with him. June 5~11</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Then an optional tour to Plum Village France for part of the 21-Day retreat exploring engaged buddhism. They also have started garden/permaculture projects which I’m quite curious about. June 12~21</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Annual tour to the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead, Portland’s City Repair and ecovillages, and Seattle’s urban permaculture scene. One of my favorite things to do! Many of my close collaborators in Japan are former tour participants. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lots of cool places I’d love to share like Yoshiki Hayashi’s projects in Kamogawa, Chiba, the Kabata culture featured in the documentary Satoyama, and the premier natural farming school Akamejuku. I was thinking of a 10~14 day tour in October. What do you think?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or I might help out with a tour to take Japanese activists to Bioneers, and tour around Bay Area activist hubs. Hmmm….</span></div>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-71424300440843847032016-02-15T03:21:00.000-08:002016-02-15T03:21:41.474-08:00URBAN PERMACULTURE INSPIRATIONS! part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
日本語は<a href="http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.in/2016/02/ted.html" target="_blank">こっち</a><br />
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Here are some inspiring TEDx talks on urban gardening and more! I think its really important to propagate not just gardens and gardeners, but stories of possibility. Growing a culture that encourages life! And while these are both amazing projects with powerful speakers, there are billions of stories and acts of active hope that are happening across the globe. Keep spreading the stories, and planting seeds.<br />
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<b>RON FINLEY: A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."</span><br />
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<b>PAM WARHURST: How We Can Eat Our Landscapes</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community.</span><br />
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<b>BRITTA RILEY: A Garden In My Apartment</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Custom', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles — researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.</span></div>
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more to come.....much more!</div>
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Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-46666405122809220422016-02-11T03:57:00.001-08:002016-02-11T03:57:14.315-08:00URBAN PERMACULTURE INSPIRATIONS! part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
a few inspirations from around the world.<br />
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more to come from Tokyo this year!<br />
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URBAN ART X NATURE<br />
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MOSS GRAFFITI<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-fWBYzK5kqSnfOmQ0_FhB1z3H41xEAj5WUqhken-By7yIHKAqUEw9W_One-C5a5yHHF0b5PieOqDKDd4ISFDPP6tkNjtFmRVCA4HU767imFa8l-6b58PrYQN9Md71_2EgsOFJ_ak9KQ/s1600/thrift.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-fWBYzK5kqSnfOmQ0_FhB1z3H41xEAj5WUqhken-By7yIHKAqUEw9W_One-C5a5yHHF0b5PieOqDKDd4ISFDPP6tkNjtFmRVCA4HU767imFa8l-6b58PrYQN9Md71_2EgsOFJ_ak9KQ/s640/thrift.jpeg" width="480" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://ecosalon.com/10-ideas-for-sexy-urban-gardens/" target="_blank">UPCYCLE GARDEN</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmG9ib-pgLteRDMKZwI7hTgOemUcEB7VRIqx3qINMJdS7XFGMq8y7cvsRKs7uMjkpiYJFB1rFz1CCRnZIYI_zP_VgVWg70hh8R8hH0wX-B6OVu1gYuqt0CtXEtPBv1_nYZG6mBk7Jnz0/s1600/How-To-Start-a-Rooftop-Garden.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVf1BfKCWlXyVW2olbGzssozzb_UuXbzqdiMU3U48xXCj1JGWt7-syoDiVf8HD7HVZAyE67YZnDbWpt3WaZP3y4DOEO4LKAukjRC5PS-TYSbfg3-N8ZY7Dhd7cvNSXpr-Mu8PUMSqM8XM/s1600/Cara-de-Planta-vertical-garden-2.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRP-SHuEAFLR_geknqXa7kif6JYWRl8Ns8_zGGzZmkQFkY1ZcdDwvLEDHf-oXaRMX_pgjP30AX1rIFjt1nf2rNa8X5KdIBK6-rJRfovPQXAUnJRIsa1Wph1viQxsJqO-cJi2xLajjh6sM/s1600/18549+%252802%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZ8GwWaF8udZBPe1MtDIx67pfeb01lx4JPfptKDX8EwvAj7EFTfsloHWQITdJ4QS5irD7OhCbYm2sRQjnDKLrwGX4EGP0y5cP5T5XtIA-odO9TbJA0NLlnaqudJ7vajj017UyuopOosU/s1600/seed-bom_bombe-semi_guerrilla-gardening-3.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWVz7aYG6Ag5PARBEe-UuPS7ujmqIP-wJxRtgoA_ZCv4xaG7OdYqT0AKu0BxXkZz1GsW6IOWzhrO51SrLJPFd-kms8hQCpzgrJU08jQhxOcCcuswOEiVfXZ7DwH9hrGLyE2OZSCxPmgYg/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWVz7aYG6Ag5PARBEe-UuPS7ujmqIP-wJxRtgoA_ZCv4xaG7OdYqT0AKu0BxXkZz1GsW6IOWzhrO51SrLJPFd-kms8hQCpzgrJU08jQhxOcCcuswOEiVfXZ7DwH9hrGLyE2OZSCxPmgYg/s640/11.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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MOBILE GARDEN<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUUmd-CCLcKHi9oiErO1GuYijA9sMwiCIhtvrlSXegkLg2suZCNdGZKf1-Qo3WZpzNs0YqHErQQk2dEs0Itg5a5-Dlq7tMeBRPrvCVkG04zQgpuiT-pVGzpzf4fCavNUneDnJL0vhULJA/s1600/asfltdaikon2.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmG9ib-pgLteRDMKZwI7hTgOemUcEB7VRIqx3qINMJdS7XFGMq8y7cvsRKs7uMjkpiYJFB1rFz1CCRnZIYI_zP_VgVWg70hh8R8hH0wX-B6OVu1gYuqt0CtXEtPBv1_nYZG6mBk7Jnz0/s1600/How-To-Start-a-Rooftop-Garden.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVf1BfKCWlXyVW2olbGzssozzb_UuXbzqdiMU3U48xXCj1JGWt7-syoDiVf8HD7HVZAyE67YZnDbWpt3WaZP3y4DOEO4LKAukjRC5PS-TYSbfg3-N8ZY7Dhd7cvNSXpr-Mu8PUMSqM8XM/s1600/Cara-de-Planta-vertical-garden-2.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRP-SHuEAFLR_geknqXa7kif6JYWRl8Ns8_zGGzZmkQFkY1ZcdDwvLEDHf-oXaRMX_pgjP30AX1rIFjt1nf2rNa8X5KdIBK6-rJRfovPQXAUnJRIsa1Wph1viQxsJqO-cJi2xLajjh6sM/s1600/18549+%252802%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZ8GwWaF8udZBPe1MtDIx67pfeb01lx4JPfptKDX8EwvAj7EFTfsloHWQITdJ4QS5irD7OhCbYm2sRQjnDKLrwGX4EGP0y5cP5T5XtIA-odO9TbJA0NLlnaqudJ7vajj017UyuopOosU/s1600/seed-bom_bombe-semi_guerrilla-gardening-3.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWVz7aYG6Ag5PARBEe-UuPS7ujmqIP-wJxRtgoA_ZCv4xaG7OdYqT0AKu0BxXkZz1GsW6IOWzhrO51SrLJPFd-kms8hQCpzgrJU08jQhxOcCcuswOEiVfXZ7DwH9hrGLyE2OZSCxPmgYg/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-fWBYzK5kqSnfOmQ0_FhB1z3H41xEAj5WUqhken-By7yIHKAqUEw9W_One-C5a5yHHF0b5PieOqDKDd4ISFDPP6tkNjtFmRVCA4HU767imFa8l-6b58PrYQN9Md71_2EgsOFJ_ak9KQ/s1600/thrift.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><br /></a>
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VERTICAL GARDENS<br />
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<a href="http://www.risc.org.uk/gardens" target="_blank">ROOFTOP FOREST GARDEN</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmG9ib-pgLteRDMKZwI7hTgOemUcEB7VRIqx3qINMJdS7XFGMq8y7cvsRKs7uMjkpiYJFB1rFz1CCRnZIYI_zP_VgVWg70hh8R8hH0wX-B6OVu1gYuqt0CtXEtPBv1_nYZG6mBk7Jnz0/s1600/How-To-Start-a-Rooftop-Garden.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmG9ib-pgLteRDMKZwI7hTgOemUcEB7VRIqx3qINMJdS7XFGMq8y7cvsRKs7uMjkpiYJFB1rFz1CCRnZIYI_zP_VgVWg70hh8R8hH0wX-B6OVu1gYuqt0CtXEtPBv1_nYZG6mBk7Jnz0/s640/How-To-Start-a-Rooftop-Garden.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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ROOFTOP OASIS<br />
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GUERRILLA GARDENING<br />
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SEED BOMBS!<br />
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TOKYO GUERRILLA AQUAPONICS<br />
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GUERRILLA DAIKON RADISH<br />
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under the asphalt and concrete is life waiting to spring back into action!<br />
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when we stop paving it over, Tokyo will return to forest....or a field of daikon.</div>
Kai 海http://www.blogger.com/profile/08366070436633547721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140376099467331532.post-35044273265263562772016-01-03T20:00:00.002-08:002016-01-03T20:00:59.931-08:00Happy New Year 2016 and I will do two talks in Bangkok on Jan 8th!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy New Year!!!!!!<br />
Happy New Day!!!!<br />
Hope you are enjoying your moments.<br />
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Just finished a nourishing retreat at Thai Plum Village, and now heading to Pun Pun in Chiang Mai. I've heard quite a bit about Pun Pun and Panya in permaculture and other alternative circles.<br />
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For those who are curious<br />
<a href="http://www.punpunthailand.org/">http://www.punpunthailand.org</a><br />
"Punpun is a small organic farm and learning center in north of Thailand, where we practice sustainable living through seed saving, natural building and appropriate technology."<br />
See below for an amazing TEDx talk by one of the founders.<br />
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After that, will ride a sleeper train back to Bangkok and do two talks. One at SUAN MOKE temple. Another at a new community center by a engaged buddhist activist friend (still waiting for details). Below is the ad for Suan Moke. I'm planning to talk about urban permaculture in Tokyo, Portland, mindfulness experiments, nonviolence (ahimsa), and how to transform urban culture through the giftivism (gift economy activism).<br />
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"Finding Peace in the Inner Landscape" </div>
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Kai Sawyer, a permaculturalist and practicing engaged buddhist now living in Tokyo has been working to help find peace in ourselves and in the metropolis. In Bangkok we face similar challenges, confronted both in our minds and in our city with pollution, chaos, and distraction. </div>
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Here from this young inspiring practitioner/ activist about his journey in this process and how he is helping others to wake up to the possibilities.</div>
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Be happy~</div>
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