One of unique feature for Giveness Japan is promoting eco-friendly products with many companies, artists and NPOs.

One of products is stone paper which is using only stone 80 % and plastic 20 %. It doesn't use any natural wood resources. It's simply good for saving woods. But actually there is much more positive effect for environment. During the production process, factory doesn't need to use any of chemicals which are required for regular paper making. Statistics show that stone paper making requires about 50% less energy for production.

This kind of technology will save our planet and save our kids in the future.

www.rock-paper.com  from Australia

www.artchemica.co.jp from Japan

"In order to produce a metric ton of traditional wood pulp papers, an average of four metric tons of wood chips is utilized, which is the equivalent of felling approximately 23 large trees. Even so, this is merely the start of a long list of environmental costs of using traditional wood pulp paper.

Of the trees harvested globally for industrial uses, nearly half goes to pulp and paper production and, the demand for wood pulp remains insatiable. In light of the continuing trends, it has been estimated that only 5% of all tropical forests will remain by mid-century to the detriment of biodiversity. Even at the present, less than 20% of the world's original forest cover remains intact, and much of what does remain is already threatened by commercial logging.

Although about 30% of the world's wood pulp supply now comes from tree farms, by and large forest-harvested timber still dominates supply. In truth, even if artificial tree plantations have taken some pressure off deforestation, tree farms host about 90% fewer animal species than the natural forests that preceded them. Indeed, 1/3 of the world's biodiversity has been irrevocably lost since 1970."

I got this paper and used for ink jet printer to print photos. It's just fine quality as well as traditional paper. I was looking for this paper on Amazon.com, but I haven't found it yet. If anyone can find it, please tell us about it. This is a very innovative and eco-friendly products. We can share this to the world. We can certainly save our mothe planet with this.

Shin

It's always nice to meeting people. During my last trip, I meet local people and had a New Years party with them. Those new friends are very happy people, drinking, singing and dancing all day long. What we had was a home made rose wine. It was a totally new to me. Well, taste were OK, just different.

I can't wait to see another new experience from this trip.

There is a cool festival coming up on 6/14-17. I wish I can take one week off from my work and fly over to Tennessee. But I think I won't have time for it.

Anyone who are going there, you are lucky. Please enjoy and tell me about it sometime.

I've been in the U.S. for last three weeks. It was a very nice trip. I met good people, good businss, good conference etc. The best of all was that I met with a little baddy.

They were so pretty. I spent a really good time with them.

 Cheeze crackers are my and their favorite and shared together with them. 

Well I can't stay any longer....

zzz...zzz...

It's more than 12 hour drive. A picture I upload in my photo album is the one picture taken on the way to Texas. It's almost same view from all way down to Texas. There is nothing to tell you about it except flat land.

In Texas, we could have some time to explore the city of Dallas. But what we did was visiting JFK historical site. It was a something. I imagine I don't have cahnce to come to Texas in my life again. It's a good memory and experience to be there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

I'm exhausted from a long drive, so this blog will be continued on some other day.

It's been more than five years since last visit. Finally, I'm coming back. I'll fly over to Denver, CO tomorrow.  I'm so exited to go back and a little nervous getting on an airplane.  Hoepfully, there is no problem on the way.

About 10 years ago, I was living in Wisconsin for several years. It was very cold, I guess you can imagine.  It's very strange that there was a first snowfall in Tokyo yesterday. Temprature was like 1 degree C, equivalent of 32 or 33 degree F.  Hopefully, CO is not that cold likeTokyo.

I'll have the exhibition inTexas for a couple of days and come back to CO around March 28. If you have chance, I'd like to meet with you. Please give me a call. I'll be there until April 8. I love to talk with you about Giveness and a lot more things for the future.

Well, I guess it's about time for bed. See you guys soon.

If there is a good storng motivation, we can do anything.

They gave me a good message. I have now more motivation to complete my life work.

Once I was living in Wisconsin for about 5 years or more. I loved cold weather myself. Once in a while, temprature gets as low as 20 or 30 degree below zero. My old lemon car always got engine failure and gave me headache because of it. It was a severe weather, but I still loved and enjoyed it.

One day, I had a very important exam to take in Madison, Wisconsin. It was about 3 hours drinve from where I used lived.  But it was a historically cold on the day. My lemen of course didn't move at all.

Make a long story short, one of my good friends gave up his work and let me use his car. And I could take exam and it effected all my education and carreer later on. I don't forget how much his help meant to me and how I thanked him. It's something like Giving and Sharing mind, he has.

Well, thanks for reading my blog, but that's it for now. Someday I'll continue about this again..

In the north, there is not enough snow fall on the mountains and it will make a problem of water supply shortage in farm land. Same kind of things are happening in all over the place. We got to do something.

Anyway, I stay home, take medicine and sleep early. That's the best way to pass time right now.

In two weeks, I'll be in Corolado and the Rocky mountain. Clear fresh air is the one I need for cure.

Giveness is a great system with a great concept. I can make new friends from all over the place.

Also giving or sharing concepts will make big change in our life.

Every one's small contribution will be a great help for the people who are facing difficulty in their life.

Time to time, I'll update my blog entry. Please give me any comments or feedback anytime.