Breeze of Kalani

バイロンベイが居心地よく、
予想以上に長居してしまっています。
出たり入ったりしているものの、ヨガティーチャートレーニングが
おわったあと、約１ヶ月ステイしています。

あまり予定をたてず（私らしくない！笑）、ただただリラックスする
夢のような暮らしをしばし満喫しています。

えみちゃんとSimeon (シミオン）も２ヶ月のトリップ（日本→ジャワ島→タイ）
から帰国し、一緒にガーデンのお手入れをしたり、ご飯をつくったり、
旅行というより、すっかり暮らしている気分に。

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日本を出発して１ヶ月が経ちました。
真夏のオーストラリアで元気にしてます。
ニュースで流れていた洪水やサイクロンの影響は幸い受けず
健康的な日々を過ごしています。

さて、この１ヶ月何をしていたかというと、バケーション＆サーフィン三昧！
といいたいところですが、かなりハードな数週間でした。

まずバイロンベイに降り立ち、サーフライダーオーストラリアの友達から、
テント道具一式とサーフボードをちゃっかり借り、何はともあれ、入水。

wategoes のメローな波。

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ハワイで真っ黒に日焼けした痕もようやくおちつき、海はつめたい北東風がふきはじめ、気がついたら１１月！！！いまさらですが、ハワイの旅の報告です。

2007年から毎年少し遅い夏休みをかねて９月のビジットが恒例となったハワイトリップ。今回は、前半はオアフ島で開催されたゼロエミッションカンファレンスの取材、後半はハワイ島のディープジャングルのコミュニティをめぐる旅で、青い海と深い緑に癒され、自然とともに暮らすロコたちにたくさん出会いました。

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green workshop fes in 房総も無事終了し（ご参加頂いた皆様、ありがとうございました！各ワークショップのレポート記事は近日中にgreenz.jpにて掲載予定です！）、あっという間に9月になってしまいました。

うだるような暑さも和らぎ、たわわに実った稲穂も刈られ、夏の終わりに少し切なさを感じる時期

・・・・のはずが、今年の夏はアツイ、アツイ！！！！

ジリジリと照りつける太陽もハンパなくアツイので海に入らないとやってられないって感じですが、自分の房総妄想もますますヒートアップ！6月のgreenz森の家オープンハウスパーティー以来、いろんなことがすごいスピードで起こり、つながりはじめ、これって運命？って思わずにはいられないような素敵なハプニングの連続にワクワク。加えて、夏！！っていうだけで心は軽やか、つい、ニヤニヤしてしまいます。

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We all know the importance and value of the internet in disseminating messages. And if those messages are practical, entertaining and economical, they should be shared to a broader audience.

And that is exactly what we at greenz.jp is trying to achieve. How can we share our unique Japanese ways of thinking, knowledge and practices to accelerate the adoption of sustainability ? Probably, the most simple way is to collaborate with like minded media and share content.

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June 20th is International Surfing Day.

Founded by Surfing Magazine, International Surfing Day unites surfers from around the world in celebration of the sport of surfing, and encourages all ocean lovers to share and acknowledge their mutual love of surfing and our beach and ocean environments by participating in local beach activities, paddle outs and any other forms of engagement with the ocean.

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Bioneers Conference is an annual conference I am very much fond of.

Morning Plenary Sessions in the Main Audotorium (3000 people)

Every October, leading-edge innovators gather in San Rafael, California to share breakthrough solutions. The word Bioneers came from ” Biological Pioneers” and is defined by the founder,　Kenny Ausubel as

The bioneers are engaged citizens from all backgrounds and fields who focus on solving our world’s most urgent problems within a framework of interdependence: It’s all connected. Just as the web of life is intricately interconnected, so too are all environmental and social issues. We take a “solve-the-whole-problem” approach that is holistic, systemic and multidisciplinary. Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature. We connect the dots among most areas of human endeavor including environment, health, justice and spirit.

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This blog is about my life & work log, written only in Japanese.

But I have been thinking about writing something in English for quite a while but never really made the move.So why did I decide to start writing in English?

The answer is pretty simple.

Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Max Schorr & Casey Caplowe, co-founders of GOOD Magazine and Valerie Casey, founder of DESIGNERS ACCORD. The setting was the lounge greenz(English page coming soon!) , our real laid-back loft-like space with antique furnitures.

Over a Japanese “OBANZAI” lunch, we talked about the importance of engaging proactively in the virtual and real community to make social changes. We also agreed that the key to sucess in this green revolution is - collaboration.

But often, these communities are vast, invisible and not sharing, despite the fact they are under the same mission and have the common interest. But once they discover the presence of others, these communities immediately become interconnected networks and it just keeps on expanding. They become powerful forces to drive social change. We all saw that in the Obama campaign.

greenz meeting GOOD was just a perfect example. We immediately got connected.

But that’s not the case for all of us.

Based in an island nation called Japan and primarly due to the language barrier, people feel isolated about being left behind from this global “green movement”. And at the same token, although non-Japanese people want to connect to the locals, there seems to be no accessible information - that’s reason why we are writing for treehugger.

So I thought I should contribute more to activate the community - making the green like- minded community more tangible and more visible. And for the most part, show who we are connected to so that people on the other side of the planet may see us as collaborative partners. It will also be my personal memorandum to keep track of the global green business trends and how we can adopt and integrate that practise and methodology to the local level.

Still the majority of the posts will be in Japanese but I hereby commit to write one post per week in English (hopefully….). You can check out future post under the English Post category.

Will keep you posted.

YOROSHIKU!