Acid Mothers Temple
http://www.myspace.com/acidmotherstemple playng at Urbanguild (kyoto) Saturday 27th February http://www.urbanguild.net/map.html
Highly reccomended.
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The 60-Minute Team
60 minutes a week:
Be happy, stay healthy, and keep your neighborhood clean!
The concept is simple enough: combining exercise with community enjoyment mixed with maintenance. I have been organizing and participating in a number of big clean-ups here in Shiga (Japan) over the past year or so. But the trash keeps coming back! Where does it coming from? Are the deer and tanuki playing a nasty trick on us? No, it’s people, us, and it’s our responsibility to keep our home clean.
There are two ends we can meet with this new quasi eco-sport:
1) Exercise! Why spend your hours exercising in a gym, separated from your environment, with an iPod blocking out the world? Thanks to truly marveling technology advancements, we spend less time in our own backyards than ever before. But there’s a stunning world of rice fields and hills, and rivers (concrete bedded perhaps), and edible wildflowers, and so much more than we never see. I’ll bet we can name all of the 7 Dwarves but we couldn’t think of 7 plant varieties that grow just beyond our walls. Please take a walk, a run, a bike-ride at dusk and revel in it. If you want more than just that, work your muscles by curling whatever trash you find along the way, do sit-ups, push-ups, chin-ups on a tree lunges, calisthenics¬¬––the possibilities are endless! In the process of enjoying your neighborhood, you’ll probably realize there’s an obscene amount of garbage floating around…that brings us to point number
2) Take care of your home! Set an example for others to follow or get your neighbors to join you for an evening stroll and bring a couple of plastic bags to pick up whatever junk you see in the process. If you are currently avoiding visiting that park around the corner because of trash problems, this will help create the opportunity to enjoy your home. The trouble is that a polluted sidewalk invites more trash, because no one appears to mind anyway; but a spotless roadside encourages others to keep it unblemished! Best of all, the more people in a community that start working together to protect their shared land, the more effective and beautiful things will be coming. In less than a month there’ll be less garbage to collect, because a more responsible community will trash the place less.
On the surface, the goal for the 60-Minute Team is to get everyone in the world working to take better care of the home on Earth that we all share.
Every person: 60 minutes/week
You can do it at your own pace, whenever you have an hour to spare. Getting a big group together takes a lot of time and energy we could spend better just by getting to work. One day after work, Satruday or Sunday mornings¬¬—best part of joining the 60-Minute Team is that when you participate is completely up to you!
I don’t believe it’s so difficult, and once the ball is rolling will be a force of inertia that drives us to keep things clean for all time. If we get to the point where there’s no trash, we can still benefit from getting outside one hour a week. Doing so will hopefully also spark new ideas of health and community maintenance above and beyond simple exercise and trash collecting. If we want to pass on there beautiful world around us to our children, we can take additional steps: reducing energy & CO2 used by our daily appliances, composting, cutting back on products with packaging or waribashi, switching to organic foods to keep our soil and bodies, engaging more with family, friends, and neighbors¬¬––we can always accomplish more collectively than if we stay looked indoors alone.
Please leave us a comment here and let us know how you’re 60-Minute contributions are going! Let other people know and help them on board too!
You can also join our facebook group for The 60-Minute Team
60-Minute Team, Week 1's booty |
Thank you for this post... sometimes people forget the little things one can do to improve their lives and environment. I know I am guilty.
"we couldn’t think of 7 plant varieties that grow just beyond our walls. "
I can :p
A question for people out there. I noticed recently that the washing machines just dump their water into the gaijin traps, which go directly into the tributaries for Biwa. Now that I know this, I feel bad about using regular laundry soap. Does anyone know of a biodegradable laundry soap sold in Japan?
Ehh?? That's where the laundry water goes?? No!! That's so awful. And besides detergent, some people use bleach!
What about shower/kitchen drains? Do those go to the same streetside gutters?
is that all drains? yeah i am confused too??? or just ones that sit out on your porch in the older style apartment setups or old houses??
I'm not sure. I just noticed the other day when I left my apartment with a load of laundry going that the water was draining into the gutter. And since then I've noticed when walking around laundry smelling soapy water getting dumped into drains from other people's places too.
wow, I never thought about the drain! my old apartment with the laundry machine on the balcony did that too! luckily my current apartment has the washer connected to the plumbing indoors...
I have been using a detergent that claims to use natural plant cellulose as one of the main ingredients. can't remember the name at the moment, but I found it at heiwado...I know there has got to be better stuff out there...
Like this http://www.ecoservice-wash.com/ (sorry, but site is Japanese)
sorry, that's all for now, gotta get back to class!
thanks so much for all the comments guys! I love feeling galvanized human energy!
people tell people to get on the facebook team too and spread the word!
You could try that shop anew on bell road (that sells lentils too) for enviro friendly washing powder. I'm not sure if they definitely have some but they do have some eco freindly detergents and soaps.... or you could make your own.... baking soda and essential oils ( i've never really done it before but I am sure you can)
www.home-2009.com
Hey theres a good eco film here to watched. check it out y'all
トっプ Detergant has been advertising a "CO2 cut" detergant. Anyone know if it's actually eco-friendly as it claims?