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Mapping Green Spaces Large and Small with Tokyo DIY Gardening
Aug 27th, 2010
Live Green And Be Well. What's more fun and cool?
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More than 25 people gathered last Saturday evening with scissors, markers, crayons, duct tape, and string to map out Tokyo’s everyday green spaces – large and small – during the first Tokyo DIY Gardening workshop. Held at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, a brand new arts space in a former junior high school, the workshop attracted attendees from all across the city. After a short presentation by the organizers, Jared Braiterman and Chris Berthelsen, on the purpose of the workshop and a little gardening exercise to warm up, participants began filling in sidewalk gardens, roof gardens, community gardens, and farms.
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Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved. Photo by Steven Depolo.
Previously, greenz.jp introduced Earth Embassy, the eco village at the foot of Mt. Fuji as “Earth Embassy Showcases Sustainable Lifestyles”. As the summer heats up, so does our solar shower; here’s how it works.
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SustainableCommunity
Now that’s an E-idea! Introducing Eco-Idea Competition Winners : 3rd Prize Part03
Aug 20th, 2010
Tomoaki Ishii received third prize for Resources & Revolution
Previously at greenz.jp we introduced ‘Long Cycle Project’ by Yuri Yahara and Recycled Tire Sandals by Akiko Kawase, the third winners of the E-idea Competition held by the British Council, with support from LRQA (Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance) Japan.
The next project that won third prize and a grant of 400,000 yen is….
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On the 1st Monday of every month, The British Council and eQualC Sustainability Communications present the Green Leaders Forum (GLF), a fantastic Green Business and networking event in Tokyo. The theme of the August forum (GLF7) was “Developing Next Generation Green Leaders”. Along this theme, five speakers gave presentations on their successes and what they’re currently doing in their specific fields. (more…)
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SustainableCommunity
Now that’s an E-idea! Introducing Eco-Idea Competition Winners : 3rd Prize Part04
Aug 16th, 2010
Akihiro Matsui received third prize for a food scrap composting initiative
Previously at greenz.jp we introduced ‘Long Cycle Project’ by Yuri Yahara, ‘Recycled Tire Sandals’ by Akiko Kawase, and ‘Resources & 3R Revolution’ by Tomoaki Ishii, the third prize winners of the E-idea Competition held by the British Council, with support from LRQA (Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance) Japan.
We’ll introduce the fourth project that won third prize and a grant of 400,000 yen.
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SustainableCommunity
Now that’s an E-idea! Introducing Eco-Idea Competition Winners : 3rd Prize Part02
Aug 11th, 2010
Yakiko Kawase received third prize for an eco-business recycling old tires into funky sandals
Previously at greenz.jp we introduced ‘Long Cycle Project’ by Yuri Yahara, one of the third prize winners of E-idea Competition held by the British Council, with support from LRQA (Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance) Japan.
We’ll introduce the second winner of the third prize and a grant of 400,000 yen.
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Taken from http://www.naturalhouse.co.jp/shops/
Awareness of the need for more sustainable lifestyles enters into the daily thinking, dreaming and mind-wandering of more and more people every day. Oh how the process would be so much easier if we all had shops available to us to buy food and household products that were more sustainably made.
Who knew? There’s a chain of stores that sell local and organic products as well as promote sustainable lifestyles in Japan. OK, so perhaps, many people already knew about the Natural House supermarket chain. For those of you who didn’t and are looking for such shops, this article is for you. (more…)
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Previously at greenz.jp we introduced the E-ideas Competition held by the British Council, with support from LRQA (Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance) Japan. After a tough selection process, the best eco ideas and projects were separated from the rest, and granted a share of the five million yen on offer.
Greenz.jp caught up with nine of the recipients to check out what is behind the E-Ideas that made the cut.
In this first installment we introduce four projects that won third prize and a grant of 400,000 yen each.
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The four rules of Open Space Technology. Some Rights Reserved. Chris Corrigan
Green Drinks is a monthly meeting of green key persons held in over 500 cities around the globe. Green Drinks Tokyo (gdT) is organized by greenz.jp and usually held on the second Thursday of each month. This month’s gdT will be on the first Thursday, however, due to the approaching Bon holidays. The theme for August: Designing Workshops.
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Scattered among the farms, vegetable stands, and sidewalk gardens in our part of Tokyo there are, thankfully, a lovely handful of community gardens where locavores can find the most local vegetables of all – their own. Absolutely bursting with fruits, vegetables, and herbs, these gardens bustle with activity throughout the year.
Last year we noticed a farm literally just steps south of the train tracks had been divided in half. (The photo above of a passing train was taken about three-quarters of the way down the center path.) Fearing the worst (another high rise or series of pre-fab homes) we waited with baited breath. Much to our pleasure, this fantastic community garden was born!
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