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Slightly Updated 12/19/2014

Welcome!!!

Tokyo Urban Permaculture is a new project I started at the end of 2011, after two extraordinary seasons at the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island, WA. Much of my inspiration has come from what I learned during my time at the Bullocks and from my experience with the City Repair movement in Portland, OR. Both highly highly recommended sites for ecological-cultural regeneration and interesting people.

Now that I am in Japan, I am embarking on an experiment to practice what I have learned in my years learning and practicing sustainability, and to figure out critical areas for growth.
My five main projects at the moment are:

  1. Regenerate tokyo with a creative network of permaculture activists and cultural change makers
  2. End nuclear power in Kanto which will hopefully have a domino effect across Japan and the world
  3. Power Shift Japan: connecting with the Global Power Shift movement to address dirty energy and climate change through empowering youth. 
  4. Wake Up! Sharing mindfulness practice to Japanese, particularly the youth, and exploring the core of happiness and sustainability by living it. Also, part of a global youth movement.
  5. Compassionate communication (NVC): teaching heart to heart communication with a focus on youth, so that we can transcend a culture of judgement and engage with what all of us are really needing! Cultivating our consciousness for empathetic connection with all.
The larger vision is to transform the current consumption-driven cultural paradigm to one that focuses on ecological regeneration (keeping us alive and healthy), and the cultivation of happiness and compassion. Starting with Tokyo.

My current strategy is to explore a variety of approaches such as
  • teaching urban permaculture primarily by conscious donation
  • doing presentations on best practices (e.g. City Repair) from the US and other countries 
  • relationship-building with a powerful university that has close government and corporate ties
  • stimulating the growing social movements against nuclear power and climate change
  • networking with a diverse population of cultural change agents
  • practicing engaged buddhism or mindfulness activism
SERVICES I OFFER
Workshops and talks on
  • Permaculture and urban permaculture: introductory sessions to more advance courses
  • Gardening, compost, worm compost, propagation, grafting, guerrilla gardening, fermentation
  • Facilitation and effective meeting skills
  • Compassionate communication (aka Nonviolent Communication)
  • Mindfulness and meditation in daily life
  • Systems thinking through games

I also started a life-coaching service based on compassionate communication. My role is accept you for who you are and where you are at in life, call out your power, and help you become who you want to be! I finished a 10-month certification course through Leadership that Works called Coaching for Transformation.  I am happy to give free sample sessions and you'll get a taste of what is possible!


Please get into contact with me if any of this excites you or if you have any resources to share.
tup.pollinator (at) gmail.com
*need to change (at) to @

At the moment, this blog is primarily Japanese because that is my target audience and I want to limit my computer time. The current function of the blog is to announce workshops, plant ideas about urban permaculture, and other types of outreach. If there are many non-Japanese speakers interested, I can attempt to translate. At some point I hope to organise English-speaker friendly workshops and  a permaculture festival. Let me know if you are interested. That is essential for motivating me.


If you are looking for information on permaculture in Japan, I compiled a list for you!!!
http://livingpermaculture.blogspot.jp/2013/09/permaculture-in-japan-sites-to-see.html

Also, please check out my other blogs to get a sense of who I am and what I'm doing.

My main blog (bilingual):
Living Permaculture

Eco Resources Library (my storage site for unprocessed sustainability info)
http://ecoresourceslib.blogspot.com/

Power Shift Japan
http://powershiftjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/12/power-shift.html

Occupy Kasumigaseki Japan blog
http://occupykasumigasekijapan.tumblr.com/

Thanks for visiting and get ready for a crazy era of instability, chaos, creativity and regeneration!

Happiness
Kai

PS Here is a youtube of a talk I did for TEDxTodai on "Stopping"