Green Week


My friends at greenz.jp are involved in a number of projects, including Green Week. It is a campaign to coincide with Golden Week, the long holiday starting this week.

They got the support from former environment minister Yuriko Koike, as well as other celebrities. Some of the events to be held from May 2 include (of course) a green party, rice-planting with Tanemaki (billed as eco tourism, but - hint, hint - planting rice is hard work!) and a city gardening project to create a "green curtain" before summer (to reduce the heat wave).

Tanemaki also has an ambitious project this summer to gather 1000 people as part of their Soybean Revolution, to increase domestic soy production in Japan, in the hope that society will change if people sow seeds. It is a long train ride from Tokyo to their fertile fields in eastern Chiba. Everyone is welcome: bring your best rubber boots, or enjoy feeling the warm, living soil under your bare feet.

Update: I found their Picasa photoalbum from 2007.

Comments

Anonymous said…
nice idea! Now, I want to do something 'green' here in South Tokyo.
2:34 pm, April 29, 2008
Martin J Frid said…
Sounds great!

greenz.jp has their Green Drink party in Gotanda on May 22, if you want to meet people and get ideas.

And here is a listing of NGO events:

http://tokyo-community-news.blogspot.com/

Let me know if it is useful.
6:22 pm, April 29, 2008
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