2.13.2019 Big Picture Activism for Economics of Happiness@Byron Bay

Wow, I haven't posted anything in English for so long!!!!

I'm in the midst of making an update but its been a several weeks project.

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.

For more information and tickets click HERE

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.

The main organizer

Helena Norberg-Hodge – Australia/UK

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.

Helena has authored and co-authored numerous articles, essays, book chapters and books, including: Bringing the Food Economy Home; From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture; and her seminal book Ancient Futures – 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.

She is also the producer and co-director of the multi-award-winning film The Economics of Happiness. She lectures extensively across the world, teaches regularly at Schumacher College in the UK, and appears in media worldwide.

Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and the International Alliance for Localization. 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.

For more information and tickets click HERE

NOV 4th in OAKLAND "Peace making activism in Japan after the Nuclear Disaster"

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My super amazing activist friend is doing a workshop in the Bay Area!

Check it out if the time and space align for you.

Peace making activism in Japan after Nuclear Disaster

~ Social innovation through craftsmanship: Nuclear power plants, war, health recuperation, and healing ~

Join Takafumi Tomita, a long term anti-nuclear, peace, and environmental activist, as he shares his activism experience in post-Fukushima Japan.

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. 

His talk includes varieties of his approach in peace-making activism such as
• health recuperation camps,
• food as medicine for radiation protection,
• miso-making and plant dyeing as a way to create local resilience and self-sustainability independent of nuclear power plant and war economy,
• farming as a place for nuturing hope from the ground
• community organizing through creating a place for workshop
• creating Earth Day at House of representatives office in Japan to invite politicians to the place making

Date: Nov 4 (Sat)

Time: 17:00 ~ 21:00

Place: A PLACE for Sustainable Living (1121 64th Street Oakland, CA 94608)

Schedule:

17:00 ~ 18:30 potluck (optional)

Please bring a dish to share and your own plate/cups/utensils if you wish to join the potluck :D

18:30 ~ 19:00 Opening/Check in

19:00 ~ 21:00 Talk and Dialogue

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. 

TO PRE-REGISTER: Make a payment through PAYPAL and include a note: "PEACEMAKING" along with your full name and email if different from your paypal account. 
PAYPAL

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.  

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). CLICK HERE for the Japanese version.

ABOUT TAKA

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. 

You can see some of his products at here

His website (only in Japanese)

Please feel free to share the event with your friends. 

FB event page to share with friends

I look forward to seeing you at the event. 

All the best,

Eri

Tokyo Urban Permaculture Website is up and running

Hello from Union Station in Chicago

Just flew in a few days ago to visit my brother at Tillers International (check it out), 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 Boggs Center (check it out).  And now heading to the Possibility Alliance (check it out) 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.

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 kominka (means old house) and turn it into a guesthouse by April 2017.

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 article 9 of our pacifist constitution. We're going to have to get really creative!

And we now have a website! Its mostly Japanese but I squeezed in some English.
http://www.tokyourbanpermaculture.com/

Here is the English message


Welcome to you English-reading friend!


GRATITUDE FIRST
Thank you for finding your way to this website!
Thank you internet for making this connection possible!
Thank you Earth for being a most generous host!


ABOUT Tokyo Urban Permaculture
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.


You can read more about Kai and the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead on his first blog: Living Permaculture (about)


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.


2015
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 Living Permaculture (book) for more.


2016
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.


Some concrete projects include
this website!

• nonviolent communication activist training retreat
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• PAWA Permaculture Design Course (with Phil Cashman and Kyle Holtzer)
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• Commune Garden: a rooftop community garden in Omotesando, Tokyo
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• Japan-centered permaculture design manual in Japanese (just sprouting)
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• Permaculture and Nonviolence Dojo for training Japanese activists (just sprouting)

For most recent updates see the Tokyo Urban Permaculture blog.


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!


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.


Thanks for reading and happy to be on the planet with you!


moved by love
Kai and the inspiring TUP team

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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)

Farming is a way of life in which one constantly reaffirms the source of life. - Fukuoka Masanobu

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

URBAN PERMACULTURE INSPIRATIONS! part 2

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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.

RON FINLEY: A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA

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."

PAM WARHURST: How We Can Eat Our Landscapes

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.

BRITTA RILEY: A Garden In My Apartment

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.

more to come.....much more!

Nov 29 Join the Global Climate March

28th in Tokyo
29th in Kyoto
for more info about Japanese events → http://climate-action-now.jp/parade2015/

Published on Nov 18, 2015
On the eve of the most important global climate meeting of our lifetime, hundreds of thousands are hitting the streets worldwide, with love and hope, to show leaders how to lead, and fight for a beautiful, equitable, post-fossil fuel 100% clean energy future. Find your march here:

http://globalclimatemarch.org

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

Gift Ecology Pilgrimage (updated)

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*this article is being edited so it is impermanent. Please do check out the links!

The Great Adventure begins!

A pilgrimage of 14 Japanese adventurers to places founded on the principles of ecology, compassion, and social transformation in the magical Bay Area. An experiment that will change our lives in some way, and shine light on what is possible. This will be a journey of hope and inspiration, full of cross-cultural pollination.

WHAT I DO (for context)

These visits to the West Coast are an important source of inspiration for my “work” in Japan. In Japan, the title that I go by (and that people know me by) is 共生革命家 (Kyoosei kakumeeka).  First two characters mean co-existence or inter-being, next two mean revolution, the last is home. My purpose in life has increasingly become focused on figuring out how I can best serve humanity and the earth. I love it, what could be more meaningful than that?!!! More and more, I feel guided on this path of interdependence and liberation.

My work consists of a variety of experiments in and around Tokyo that include guerilla seed planting,  guerrilla gardening, meditation flash mobs..... I also teach permaculture, compassionate communication (based on Nonviolent Communication), mindfulness, facilitation skills, gift ecology, etc. I've been experimenting with a gift economy based livelihood and that has been a really interesting journey. Almost all my workshops/presentations have no price set, there is no obligation to pay, its my gift. In fact, I want everybody to know how to live ecologically and compassionately, so I'm trying to remove as many barriers to that knowledge as possible. Money is often a major divider, so without a price, I'll get people who lost their jobs, students, professionals, and even bankers! But, I do invite people to support me if they like what I teach, what I do, or just are inspired to contribute. I was transformed by Goenka's vipassana meditation centers. They practice a pay-it-forward system, and so your 10-day meditation retreat (clean sleeping space, food, service) is already paid for! Definitely try it out! 

Since I stopped living on farms, and now do my social change experiments in Tokyo and across the Pacific, I've moved back to a higher consumption (lower material production) life-style. (if you are interested in how I used to live, click here) But, I have this belief that if the work I do is meaningful, somehow I will be supported to do it. It's been 2 years, I'm thriving, and I have a diverse global support network! So this gift economy works, or more accurately, I am alive and it is the path I am now on. I'm meeting more and more people who live and practice the gift economy, like Mark Boyle in England, Pancho in Oakland, Nipun Mehta in Santa Clara, and numerous more. My brother just moved to the Possibility Alliance, which seems to be a major hub for gift economics. Exciting!!!

*more on my experiments and books

THE TOUR

With my friend Eri Suzuki, we planned a tour to meet amazing sustainability activists and experience life-regenerating sites. The tour was primarily focused on urban permaculture, but then I added in agroecology, and then just had to integrate the gift economy. There is a lot of overlap here, and for me these are the foundations for the next era of humanity. The tour is also a "gift" in itself to the participants. 12 Japanese have come together to visit these sites with us and explore the gift economy, or as I now refer to it, the gift ecology. Its not just an economy. Life is a gift, air is a gift, water is a gift, sun is a gift, trees are a gift. Without these gifts, our lives would not be possible. Our economy needs these foundational "free" inputs. Without the ecosystem, our economy would not exist. So we all live in a gift ecology, but often our minds are heavily focused on the conventional economy, and one-on-one exchange. People are always giving us things too, and we are always giving others things, no matter how "poor" we are. In fact, our parents (and/or care-givers) give us so much for us to be alive today. Our life is a gift or the Earth and our human family.

Back to the tour. So, we took a leap of faith, and while there are real costs that require money, we decided to gift it to the tour participants in a similar manner as my workshops. They have no obligation to pay, but they are invited to contribute if their heart is inspired. And we extended the invitation to everybody. Lots of people are contributing to us for this experiment, people who have generously donated money, people who have offered their homes, people who are excited to make us a delicious meal, people who are in Japan helping coordinate logistics and media. It's quite the trip! It really feels like an ecology of goodness.

Our hope is that this will create a solid ripple in our consciousness. The tour is just one experiment in a larger global movement. Eri and I are changing, the participants will probably be transformed, those that give to the tour will probably experience something special, and the story will spread beyond our imagination. We are creating a new reality together. Join us! You can contribute to this experiment, start your own, or join one of the amazing people/places in the links below. The transformation comes from giving. We live in a gift ecology. Yay!

Contact us if you are wanting to be involved in someway (or leave a comment). Our response might be a bit slow but we'll make sure to get back. And if you want to contribute financially, you can donate to the experiment too! Click on the Donate button on the right of the blog and please leave a comment (we want to know what moved you!)

tup2015baytour(a)gmail.com  change the (a) to @

Below is the schedule for our pilgrimage. All are super highly recommended places (with beautiful people), so if you are in the area (or even if you are not), please go visit and experience them. These are places that demonstrate solutions. And the people are dedicated to revolutionary sustainable living and radical social change. We're all in this together.

THE PILGRIMAGE

May 31 ARRIVAL

• 1~3pm Karma Kitchen in Berkley 
• Head to Los Gatos to stay with Plum Village friends Sally and Beem
• Sangha meditation at Sally and Beems

JUNE 1 AGROECOLOGY@University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)

• 10:30 Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems with Tim Galarneau
• 12:30 Alan Chadwick garden with former apprentice Ben Kutcher
• 3:30 Kresge Garden and Common Ground Center tour with Dave Shaw
• 5pm World Cafe with students on the gift economy 
• 7pm Kai will present at UCSC's Education for Sustainable Living Program on the Fukushima nuclear crisis, sustainable living, gift ecology.
• 8:30 pm Back to Sally and Beems with natural farming giftivists Suhee and Patrik http://www.finalstraw.org

JUNE 2 Alternative Santa Cruz & PICA

• 10 - 1pm Alternative Santa Cruz tour (e.g. Bike Santa Cruz County, Bike Church, Santa Cruz Fruit Tree Project) with Tawn Kennedy
• 4 - 5pm Program in Community and Agroecology (PICA) tour with Mira Michelle
• 6pm Potluck at PICA with sustainability activists!

JUNE 3 Food and Meditation

• 10 - 2pm Homeless Garden Project with Jes Walton
• 2:30 Downtown Farmers Market with foodies of Santa Cruz
• 5pm talk with Nipun Mehta (check out his evolutionary TEDx talk)

7 pm Awakin Santa Clara community meditation and meal with the Mehtas

11 pm Casa De Paz / Canticle Farm

JUNE 4 Canticle Farm (Meditation, Farm work, Food prep)

• Meditation
• Casa de Paz/Canticle Farm tour and presentation of the project 
• All day do things with Pancho and Sam

JUNE 5 Canticle Farm

• Meditation
• All day preparation for Awakin at Casa de Paz 
• 19:00 ~ Awakin circle@Casa De Paz

JUNE 6 EAST BAY PERMACULTURE

• 7:00am Meditation
• 10am~ at A Place for Sustainable Living Tour and garden project
• 14:30 ~ Bioasis 
• 16:00 ~ Ashby community garden
• 18:00 ~ Sustainability agents, potluck BBQ at Ayakos

JUNE 7 EAST BAY PERMACULTURE 2

• 10am ~ Gill tract farm with Allison Shiozaki
• Lunch at Bay Edo Wakana Kawamura’s place with revolutionary Japanese women
• 1pm ~ Transition Town Albany garden tour 
• 3pm ~ Edible Schoolyard tour
• 4:50pm~ Berkley Food Forest

JUNE 8 Occidental Arts and Ecology (OAEC & Sebastopol)

• 11am ~ 12:30pm OAEC tour
• Sebastopol Community Market 
• Sebastopol Permaculture Skills Center tour

JUNE 9 San Francisco

• 10:00 All In Common Garden and talk to Tree

JUNE 10 Each on their own path


After that, some will visit the magnificent Giant Sequoias and I will head to the Nonviolent Communication Leadership Program retreat (NVC). NVC has been an integral part in helping me understand the gift ecology, and committing deeper to this path.

I also want to super highly recommend Vinoba Bhave's book, "Moved by Love." He is a remarkable man that I am surprised I never knew. I heard about him from Nipun, Pancho, Satish Kumar, and a friend who started the Sloth Club in Japan, gave me this book.

More ripples to come.
Step by step, as we kiss the Earth
We can heal our hearts
and be moved a little more by love

Love life
Love people
Love the Earth

Student of life
Kai

JUNE 1st Patriot Act Renewal Day w/ John Oliver

Wanted to share this important and comical video. The topic of surveillance and corruption is such a critical topic, but I want to share this video because it illustrates something deeper about our culture and society (the whole "dick pic" approach). Its funny and sad at the same time. I'm also deeply intrigued by the power of COMEDY, and the combination of comedy x media x social change. Its important to laugh.

JUNE 1st Patriot Act Renewal Day!

10.29.2014 Tokyo Urban Permaculture (TUP) San Francisco workshop

Workshop in the Bay Area Oct. 29th 2014
Bay Areaでワークショップするよー

＊still growing back my fro

＊残念ながらまだアフロ育成中

ENGLISH  日本語はしただよー

Permaculture Activism in Japan: Post-Fukushima sustainability

Hello, friends!
A revolutionary permaculture activist in Japan, Kai Sawyer, is coming to the East Bay. Born in Japan, and raised in California, Hawaii, and Japan, Kai bridges people and culture between Japan and the U.S.A.

The presentation followed by a discussion will explore the various roots and sprouts of permaculture in Japan, including an overview of permaculture in Japan, the natural farming movement, and the latest state of Japan in post Fukushima nuclear crisis. The presenter, Kai Sawyer, will share personal stories while shedding light on the complexity of what Japan faces. Come find out about the most recent heart-breaking and hopeful developments in Japan. (Details below)

Date/Time:  Oct. 29^th (Wed) 7pm ~ 9pm

Location:  PLACE for Sustainable Living

 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608

 http://www.aplaceforsustainableliving.org/

Price: Donation (gift economy based)

***please read what I mean by donation***

Please bring food and drinks to share.

For Questions: Contact Eri Suzuki  eri.suzuki.n(a)gmail.com

Event details:

Topics that will be covered:

o   Permaculture: [R]evolution through urban permaculture.
o   Natural Farming: From Fukuoka to Kawaguchi and Kimura
o   Post-Fukushima: the reality of Fukushima and the divisions in society.

Kai's presentation is full of amazing information. He is passionate, inspiring, humorous, and a natural entertainer! Do not miss this opportunity to meet Kai and get to learn and connected with people and activities in Japan.

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Kai Sawyer is a permaculture activist living in Tokyo and runs two blogs, Living Permaculture and Tokyo Urban Permaculture. He is active along the Pacific Rim doing permaculture, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), sustainability activism, and zen. While teaching urban permaculture and NVC in Tokyo, Kai stages unique actions such as guerrilla seed planting and meditation flash mobs in the heart of Tokyo. He is also the founder of Power Shift Japan, that aims to create 100% renewable energy powered universities, and The Future Japan, a globally coordinated youth climate movement.

For more information visit: Living Permaculture http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/p/about.html

For Kai’s TEDx talk on “Stopping”, visit: An invitation to stop: Kai Sawyer at TEDxTodai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6FUwzzo_0

他にもワークショップやるかも。。。

仲間の若菜ちゃんから
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繋がるみなさま、こんにちは。

今日は１０月２９日の夜7時からオークランドで行われるステキなイベントのお知らせをします。

東京から世界へ「共生革命家」として活躍をされているソーヤー海くんが、再びイーストベイにやって来ます！

前回のイベントに来ていただいたみなさんも、前回のイベントを逃してしまったみなさんにも、ぜひソーヤー海ナイトを一緒に味わってもらいたいです。

今回のトークテーマは「Post-Fukushima Sustainability」です。

3.11から３年以上たった今、わたしたちに何ができるのでしょうか。

海くんはパーマーカルチャー、非暴力コミュニケーション（NVC）、禅(マインドフルネス）、システム思考、ユースのエンパワーメントなどを活動の軸とし、東京から世界へとサステナブル（持続可能な／共生)社会を育むための実験と実践を行っています。

海くんのワークショップを通して、日本人のわたしたちが、ここベイエリアから実践できる愛と平和のある社会づくりのヒントを、一緒に見つけることができることを願っています。海くんのワークショップでは毎回、気づき、共感、感動の嵐です。そしてユーモアたっぷりでおもしろいんです。

参加者みんなを巻き込み、笑顔と笑いを誘い、ポジティブな気持ちに導いてくれる素敵な海くんのトークをぜひ聞きにきてくださいね。

イベント詳細は以下をご覧ください。フライヤーも添付します。

(イベントは英語で行われます。)

もし周りのお友達に興味のある方がいましたら、イベント拡散して頂けると嬉しいです。

どうぞよろしくお願いします。

英語でのイベントお誘いメールもあります。希望があれば転送しますので、お知らせください。

＜Permaculture Activism in Japan / Post-Fukushima Sustainability by Kai Sawyer ＞

日時: １０月２９日（水）　７−９PM

場所:  PLACE for Sustainable Living

 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608

 http://www.aplaceforsustainableliving.org/

参加費: 海くんの費用の理念をご覧ください。http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_01.html

ポットラックをします。みんなとシェアできる食べ物や飲み物をお持ちください。

Event details:

Topics that will be covered:
- Permaculture: [R]evolution through urban permaculture.

- Natural Farming: From Fukuoka to Kawaguchi and Kimura.

- Post-Fukushima: the reality of Fukushima and the divisions in society.

＜ソーヤー海＞

東京アーバンパーマカルチャー創始者。１９８３年東京生まれ、新潟、ハワイ、大阪、カリフォルニア育ち。カリフォルニア州立大学サンタクルーズ校で心理学、有機農法を実践的に学ぶ。2004年よりサステナビリティーの研究と活動を始め、同大学で「持続可能な生活の教育法」のコースを主催、講師を務める。元東京大学大学院生。パーマカルチャー、非暴力コミュニケーション、禅、ファシリテーションのワークショップを行ったり、気候変動活動x若者のエンパワーメントを海外からの依頼・支援を受けながら楽しく活動している。自称活動オタク。より愛と平和のある社会を自分の生活で実践しながら、社会に広めている。

●「東京アーバンパーマカルチャー」ＨＰ http://tokyourbanpermaculture.blogspot.jp/
●Todai TED Talkスピーチ映像、youtube（英語）
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6FUwzzo_0

質問などあれば、若菜までwkn1984(a)gmail.com ご連絡ください。

みなさんにお会いできるのを楽しみにしています。

今日も素敵な一日を♪

Friend & TED Fellow Cesar Harada up for $100K! ／ 地球の運命を変える？！シーザーを応援しよう

From my friend Rohini.

I just watched his TEDx Talk and it is super cool!

His invention, open-source hardware, and passion for a better world.

http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_harada_a_novel_idea_for_cleaning_up_oil_spills?language=ja

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(日本語は下にあります)

Friends, 

I have a request. 

Few people have inspired me so purely & humbly 

as our young Japanese-French friend, 

Senior TED Fellow, (w/ already over 20 TED talks under his belt), Environmentalist & Inventor Cesar Harada did last week @ MTM, sharing his work to help clean the oceans.  So I created this invitation:

https://www.facebook.com/events/362473290579722/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Turns out he's runner-up for a $100,000 Mazda prize, & we can help him out. Just by voting on the Mazda site. Will you view, vote & virally share? The oceans will thank you!!

EASY INSTRUCTIONS FOR VOTING:
1. Go to: https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/four-inspiring-ted-fellows-one-mazda-grant/
2. Click "Support" under Cesar Harada
3. A pop-up will ask for a login. You can either:
a) use a social network (FB, T, G+) (

turn on Platforms)

b) create a new user profile, receive an email & confirm your email with a link. Return to Mazda Rebel Grant site with link.
4. Click "Support" under Cesar Harada's photo
5. Click "Submit" button under all 4 photos.
6. Tell 5 friends to vote.

SOME HELP WITH VOTING
http://www.cesarharada.com/help-protei-get-the-mazda-rebel-grant-by-voting-takes-10-secs/

 WE CAN VOTE until 8 p.m. Oct. 15.

Everyone in the room felt the Magic of not only his inventions, & his dedication, but even more importantly the self-giving ♡ WAY he's sharing it with the world: OPEN SOURCE means instead of just benefitting corporations or governments, everyone & anyone can collaborate & BENEFIT. So what are you waiting for?!   Help us help Japan & our oceans.  Have a look at his TED talks...and,

Thanks for making a world of difference by voting!

Warm Regards,

Rohini

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Cesar Harada:  シーザー・ミノル・ハラダ 「流出原油を除去するための新しいアイデア」

実は、今日は突然ではありますが、あなたのお力を「海を救うため」ひいては
「世界を変えるため」に是非おかりしたいと思い、ご連絡させていただいており
ます。

先週知り合った天才的発明家、「シーザー・ミノル・ハラダ」さんという人がい
ます。彼は、日本人の父とフランス人の母の間に生まれたフランス生まれのハー
フで、2010年までは、エリート研究者として、ＭＩＴ（マサチューセッツ工科大
学）のプロジェクト責任者として、夢のように理想的な仕事、順風満帆な人生を
送っていました。

ですが、当時のアメリカで起きていた原油流出の現場で、地元の漁業関係者の健
康被害や苦しみを目の当たりにして、ＭＩＴを辞職することを決意します。、単
身で流出現場の地域に行ってリサーチをはじめ、一文無しの状態から、友人達や
ＮＰＯと協力しながら、世界を変えるような無人ロボットタイプのボートを開
発。これにより、原油の除去に革新的な進歩がもたらされます。

おまけに、その
技術を、特許とはまったく正反対に位置づけられる、オープンー・ソース・ハー
ドウェアという方法で、世界中の人が、誰でも無料で利用、使用、開発可能なた
めに提供をしているのです。自分の開発したものが特許を取得してその技術が独占され、お
金と引き換えになることに心の中で違和感を感じていた、それよりも、世界の人
々のために、少しでも多くの分野でその技術を誰もが活用して欲しいということ
です。

彼の技術は、海をきれいにするという当初の目的のみではなく、今では、飛行機
などにも活用できるということで、今、ＮＡＳＡやボーイング社で研究がすすめ
られています。
彼のこのような天才的なアイディアは今も無料で、世界中で活用されつつあるの
です。無限大の可能性を秘めたこの技術は本当に世界を変えるものだ、と多くの
分野から注目をあびています。

特許や特定のビジネスの独占できない技術ですから、経済的支援も受けにくく、
コンテストなどで優勝して奨励金を得ても研究や実験にお金をつぎ込んでいるの
で、本人はいつも貧乏暮らしのようです。億万長者になることが出来るような頭
脳と技術を全て世界のために無償で提供している、という信じられない人類愛の人
なのです。

そんな彼が、震災と原発事故後の東北と福島の惨状を知り、数年前には日本に来て、東北中を自転車
で回って放射能の計測結果を地図にしました。そして、今回は、福島から流出さ
れている放射性物質の影響がどの程度あるかということを調査するために海底の
調査のために、数日前から、東北へ行っています。彼のテクノロジーによって日
本近海の海水の浄化への糸口が見つかることも将来的に可能性があります。この
調査と研究は日本に住んで海産物を食べている私達にとっては直接的に大きな影
響があるものです。東電や日本政府の発表している数値は、ご存知のようにまっ
たくのでたらめだからですね。

シーザー・ミノル君は、今、仙台に行っており、彼と同行し
ている、フランス人のドキュメンタリーフィルムメーカーの人と日本人のアシス
タントの人を泊めていただける場所を探しているそうです。どなたかのご自宅の
ソファーでも部屋の片隅の床のカーペットの上でも、どこでも寝れる場所があれ
ばありがたい、と言っています。

シーザー・ミノル君と彼のスタッフへお力を貸していただけないでしょうか？

彼は、ＴＥＤのシニアフェローでもありますが、彼のＴＥＤのスピーチに字幕が
ついているものもありますので、是非ご覧になって下さい。感動的です。（既に
73万回近く再生されています。）

 シーザー・ミノル・ハラダ 「流出原油を除去するための新しいアイデア
http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_harada_a_novel_idea_for_cleaning_up_oil_spills?language=ja

長いメールをここまで読んで下さってありがとうございます。