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Chisa Uetsuki


Today there are so many serious environmental problems such as dioxins,endocrine disrupters, global warming, acid rain, deforestation, nuclear power, and loss of biodiversity.. As people become more aware of these problems, many of us may feel powerless and helpless, with an image of a bleak future. There are, however, causes for all these problems and once we identify the causes, we will be able to find solutions.

People in industrialized countries are mostly in socioeconomic systems that are characterized by mass production, mass consumption and mass disposal. These systems are called "unsustainable." But we should remember that since these frameworks have been created by people, they can be changed by people. Young people are especially the ones that need the power to change such systems with problem solving skills.

Unfortunately, at many schools in Japan students don't seem to have learned how to solve the problems and how to make the necessary changes in the society. Indeed there are many opportunities where they are encouraged to actively initiate or participate in actions for changes for a better world. Everybody can do something at home, in schools and local communities.

You can also interact with business people in corporations and people involved in your local or national government. You will be surprised to find you can do so many things to create positive changes around you. These changes, even if they are small, will spread further and further like chain reactions and grow bigger. We can see such chain reactions taking place everywhere in Japan and throughout the world.

Workshop title: Environment, Education and Activism
Biography

...has an educational background in sociology and a post graduate degree in education (TESOL)...
...She has been teaching environmental and global issues in her English classes at two universities and trying to integrate
global education into English teaching contexts...
...She has also been involved in some environmental NGOs such as JEE at both international and grassroots levels...
...She enjoys permaculture gardening...



 

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Shinichi Tsuji (Keibo Oiwa)

It is unlikely that any other animal typifies the word "symbiosis" as well as sloth. It lives through co-operation. The Sloth has succeeded to live a non-competitive, peaceful, co-existence with minimal negative impact. They typify a renewable, recyclable lifestyle under the canopy while other mammals came down to the ground to compete in a struggle for existence under the slogan "faster, bigger, stronger". Compared to the greedy, destructive, violent ways of humans - they are truly saints.

The lifestyle of sloth has so many lessons for human beings survival in the 21st century. It is clear that if we continue to promote the dominant paradigm of infinite growth, with our behaviour " faster, bigger, stronger", the economic system pushing mass production and mass consumption and a scientific, reductionist view of nature we will clearly not be able to survive in the next millennium.

We only have a future as sloth.

Workshop title: Becoming a Sloth: A Eco-Cultural Movement towards a New Lifestyle for the New Century
Biography

...Cultural Anthropologist teaching International Studies at Meijigakuin University in Yokohama...
...Main focus of his recent research is ecological and cultural issues among Canada's aboriginal peoples...
...As member of the NGO, ACTMANG (Action for Mangrove Reforestation), he has beeninvolved in environmental activities in Ecuador...
...He recently co-authored The Japan We Never Knew
(The new U.S. version is entitled The Other Japan) with David Suzuki...
...He is also a co-founder of the Namakemono (Sloth) Club....



 

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Naoko Tanemori


In the workshop, Naoko Tanemori will give a brief outline of what "Fair Trade" is all about, and the progress it has achieved in Japan. Active discussion with participants will be welcome about the negative effects of conventional trade, and about how to promote Fair Trade as an alternative for a fairer and greener world.




Workshop title: Fair Trade


Biography

...Communications Manager at Global Village ...
...actively involved in GV activities as a volunteer since 1995, by helping out at events and doing translations...
...participated in study tours to India organized by Global Village in 1997 and in 1998...
...became a full-time staff memberin January 1999, and is in charge of communication including public relations
and Magazine/Newsletter publishing...



 

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Aileen Mioko Smith


Workshop title: Youth, Nuclear Energy and the Future
Biography

...co-author with W. Eugene Smith of Minamata (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975 in English; Sanichi Shobo, 1980 in Japanese), a book about mercury pollution in Kyushu ...
...co-author with Endo Shusaku of Kakure-Kirishitan, a book about the Hidden Christians of southern Japan (Kadokawa Shoten, 1980)....
...In the 1970's she worked for Nippon Television Network and freelanced for Dentsu and Hakuhodo...
...has been active in the anti-nuclear movement in Japan since 1982 after a year of interviewing residents living around Three Mile Island about the 1979 nuclear accident...
...co-founder of Stop the Monju (1990), a citizen organization working to stop Japan's fast breeder reactor, Monju...
...She is currently director of Green Action based in Kyoto which aims to stop Japan's plutonium utilization program...



 

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