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Regenerative Urban Communities – with Taisa Mattos LIVE July
The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) held an online lecture from July 17 to 19. On Saturday, July 18 at 9:30 pm (Japan time) for about one and a half hours, GEN-Japan was asked by Taissa Matthes (GEN’s Education Staff) to introduce the As One Suzuka Community as a case study of sustainable urban community building. And 5 members of the International Division of As One Suzuka community, and GEN-Japan’s representative Katayama appeared in the lecture.
A Regenerative Society
= Regenerative Human Relationships
= Relationships with Person to Person who can talk to each other about anything.
We believe that the realization of a sustainable and comfortable living environment, including eco-villages, will lead to the building of relationships with people who are willing to discuss anything and everything without hesitation, even though it may seem like a long way off. GEN-Japan, we believe that we can solve the root causes of global problems such as climate change, through those relationbuilding. This is the way to go.
At present, half of the world’s population lives in large cities, but in order to break free from this situation, we need opportunities to learn from a variety of practical examples of how to build the next society. In this Online Project, we took up “As One” as a viable case study for this, and Masashi Ono presented slides of his 20 years of experience.
As a model for a new way of living in the future, it has the potential to be designed as a mosaic of units connected to each other, even inside Mega or Large cities.
A small circle of people and people who can talk to each other about anything can make it possible to have a home and a workplace within a few minutes’ walk of each other, agriculture that makes the best use of available land, food production and processing, and a small circle of organic matter that can enrich the soil and fertilize it.
Participants asked a variety of questions. The main ones were as follows
*What are the challenges we are facing now?
*What kind of relationship do we have with the local government?
* What does the economy look like when nearly 150 people are living like a big family?
*How can any person’s desires and will be respected at work or school without being blamed or punished?
*What is the true nature of people and how can we create a social system that respects them?
Masashi Ono ( ScienZ Institute)
The International Department of the As One Network
Mr. Masashi Ono (Science Institute), Mr. Kazuki Sakai (Community Management), Mr. Hiroya Fukuda (Science School), Mr. Felix Minowa (Science Academy student) and Ms. Marcelin Minowa (Science School interpreter), who is currently living in Switzerland, participated in this Live event and introduced their activities from their respective perspectives.
The video and website of As One were also included as a common resource for the GEN.
*A comprehensive introductory video of As One: https://www.youtube.com/watch…
*Science Academy introductory video: https://youtu.be/csYI-kTrOag
*Website: http://as-one.main.jp/English/
ーーーーーーーーー（和訳は下記）ーーーーーーー What do you think of when you hear the term “Ecovillage”? Many may imagine a small rural community sharing all their meals together and making decisions in circles. Yes, there are those! There are also quite different ecovillages based in Urban settings, such as As One Community in Suzuka, Japan. For the past 20 years, they’ve been striving to create a totally new society in the city context. To learn more about Urban Ecovillages (including case studies in the US and Denmark) check out our Urban Ecovillages Manual – still on special in our Online Market.
I am sincerely pleased to know you are much interested in the ScienZ Method course in Switzerland ! You are now very near to the venue, arn’t you?
I would like to introduce you to Mr. Masashi Ono and Ms. Marceline. You can contact them
This year, the second grade course in German will be held in Switzerland in August, but I recommend you to stay there to meet the trainers, Mr. Masashi Ono (Japanese) and Ms. Marceline (Swiss) will stay there after the German course end. ——
Masashi Ono , my close friend, is a main member of the innovation team of the Method, based on 19 years research through Community manifesting of As One Network Suzuka Community in Japan, But also he has given the lectures at a university and EDE courses in Japan and Brasil. He has been instructing people in the ScienZ School Courses in Japan, Korea and Brazil for long years. I talked about you and your will to him I really hope you will meet him directly.
Marceline, she is one of my close friends, She can speak in English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and some others.
I really would like to talk with you soon, on our mutual dream which will be solved from human problems. We will be able to free from belief system in our brain to fix just idea as facts by misunderstanding on human
I wish that the first grade course will be held in Europe soon. See you soon!!
先週グローバルエコビレッジ（GEN)インターナショナルと、アジアのコアメンバーに、新しい学びのスタイル、サイエンズメソッドの最新資料を送った。昨年、初めてのワンニサットアシュラムの広い敷地を、迷子になりそうだったけれど、丁寧に案内してくれる姿が印象的だった。その彼女がこんなに早く反応してくれるなんて、うれしい限りです。