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BUILDING EARTHBAG HOME IN PATAGONIA

We're building our home in Patagonia, Chile and it's going to be as environmental as possible. We are in a land of Cowboys and Pioneers and have the most spectacular view of nature.... forests, mountains, snow capped peaks, mighty rivers and more. The air is ever fresh, the waters pure, full of trout and salmon and the people are welcoming. But it's Patagonia and not too far from the Antarctic and because of that, it can rather extreme – so building a home here is definitely on the pioneering side and requires a lot of ingenuity, patience, persistence and stamina. Our home is going to be made largely of Bags filled with the earth beneath our feet, which happens to be the most perfect mix -just dig it up, fill the bags and lay them down. Easier said than done, but the concepts simple and when we're done we should have a highly economical home, saving natural resources, utilizing alternative energies and living off the grid.

You can follow the whole experience on our internet community OUR LITTLE THING and if you are feeling adventurous you may even consider coming down and joining us for awhile – to practice new and interesting ways of construction that have minimum impact on our planet.

WONDERFUL WORLD REPORT FROM SOUTH AFRICA

1OO Tree planting volunteers from Japan had the time of their lives, while visiting South Africa on a tree planting and garden creating mission co-ordinated by the Wonderful World Tree Planting Festival and Food and Trees For Africa (FTFA). Trees were planted in some of the countries most disenfranchised townships and communities and along with that, were planted permaculture gardens at schools, orphanages and community centres. The volunteers funded the journey themselves and left the people of South Africa with a great impression of Japan. Involved in the activities were thousands of school children, local residents, government officials, the Japanese Embassy, leading Japanese and South African corporations and the Queen Mother of the Bafokeng Tribe.

To see a full report of thier amazing journey and just what was accomplished to make the lives of the people of South Africa better, and to help the naturla environment, read this FTFA OFFICIAL VISIT REPORT. It's heartwarming.

CELEBRATION EARTH INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE PARADE

WONDERFUL WORLD TREE PLANTING VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA

Witness the vibration of an African Township choir. Cosmo City, a sprawling township on the edge of Johannesburg was the site of an historic event, a visit by 120 Japanese Tree Planting Volunteers who arrived carrying shovels and trees, wearing big smiles and very funny costumes. The volunteers are a part of the first Japanese Tree Planting Tour to South Africa. The tour was led by Earthwalker Paul Coleman, and coordinated by the Japanese 'Wonderful World Tree Planting Festival' and leading South African 'Greening" NGO 'Food & Trees For Africa'. Here, a school choir welcomes the tree planters before they set off into the township to plant trees at people's freshly built government subsidised homes.

EARTH DAY EARTH JUMP IN TOKYO

Thousands of people leapt into the air at the end of a fantastic concert by the legendary Okinawan Musician, Kina Shoukichi and his band Champloose. I stood on the stage with Shoukich, who is now a Senator, at the end and even sang a verse from Hana, which is the most internationally recorded hit of any Japanese artist. And then our friend Kyoshi Shikita, Charman of Earthday Tokyo said, "Let's Earth Jump'. We did two and as you can see by the video, the crowd was ecstatic. People are now Erath Jumping all over the world. And all because I joked one day to Shouckichi san "You know if we all jumped at the same time then when we landed we'd be performing earth Acupuncture. Everyone liked the idea and now each time we say "Earth Jump for Earth Acupuncture" and as Shoukichi likes to say "Let's Jump from a Culture of War to A Culture of Peace. Earth Jump!!!!"

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THE DAY THE EARTH LAUGHS
The Official Opening Ceremony Of Celebration Earth
April 1st: Shuri Castle, Okinawa

Seven Happy Gods Arrive On A Treasure Ship
This event is now over.
It was fantastic and culminated with the arrival of the Happy Gods to a tremendous reception.

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The Official Closing Ceremony September 21st 2009, The Earth´s Garden, Okinawa A World Peace Prayer/UN Flags of the World Ceremony, tree planting and dedication of the Scarecrow of Peace Statue (In the middle of a Japanese Military Base!!!)

UNVEILING THE NEW EARTH GARDEN SIGN (April 1st 2009) ---------------------------------------------------------

Major Concerts September 2１ｓｔ: Okinawa Starring Japanese Senator/Musician Kina Shoukichi and Champloose

KINA SHOUKICHI ROCKS AS THE FINAL ACT AT EARTHDAY TOKYO 2009 --------------------------------------------

Major Celebration Earth Walks Koichi Nakatani's Celebration Earth Walk Through Japan March 20th 2009 Hokkaido - September 21st 2009 Okinawa

THE NAKATANI EARTHWALKING TREE PLANTING FAMILY (APRIL 2009) This is bound to be a very high profile event as Koichi has earned himself a solid repution for his previous tree planting journeys walks from the north to the south of Japan. Since the birth of his son last year has become widely known as the 'Tree Planting Father.' Already Koichi is generating a lot of support and attention and will soon be featrued in a five part special on Japan's Asahi TV Network. ---------------------------

Yuji Miyata's' Greening The Olympics' Walk To London Began: January 1st 2009 in Korea - Completed Korea & Okinawa　 Next leg: April 22nd Taiwan. Will Finish: July 2012 in London Yuji, who participated in the Earthwalker Paul Coleman's 'Greening The Olympics walk from Hong Kong to Beijing continues the mission all the way to London

YUJI MIYATA (MIDDLE) HOLDING THE CELEBRATION EARTH BANNER

----------------------------------------------------- Celebration Earth Jumps Earthday Tokyo Earth Jump 2009

OPENING EARTH JUMP AT EARTHDAY TOKYO 2009 Fantastic: From center stage thousands of people were inspired to Earth Jump, by Okinawan Musician/Japanese Senator Kina Shoukichi and Earthwalker Paul Coleman.

WEDDING EARTH JUMP (APRIL 2009) Earth Jumps have been happening around the world since December 2008, when the first one held at Shuri Castle, Okinawa. Jumps have taken place in Hawaii, California, Scotland, Korea, Chile, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Taiwan and more. Check the many Earth Jump video´s on this site. ----------------------------------------------------------------

Major Celebration Earth Talk Shows Include May 20th – June 10th 2009: Japan Tour of Jeunesse Park, Paul Coleman and Konomi Kikuchi
Jeunesse Park is the Founder and Executive Director of Food and Trees For Africa won the 2007 UNEP Sasakawa Prize, which is considered to be the world's foremost environmental prize. Talks shows with feature Japanese activist and comedian, Tentsukuman Earthwalker Paul Coleman and his wife author Konomi Kikuchi. In partnership with the Wonderful World Tree Planting Festival(WWTPF) and The New Alliance for Humanity

The Celebration Earth Garden's Scarecrow of Peace One the Celebration Earth Executive Committee has a garden in the middle of a Japanese Military base to which all can freely enter. We are in the creation search for a Scarecrow of Peace Statue, which can be built to a hieght of 33 feet. On September 21st (IDP) the gardeners will plant a tree to formally recognise IDP and the offial closing of Celebration Earth events.

Celebration Earth Monorail Clean Ups: Half of Okinawa's mono rail stations have already been cleaned, by Celebration Earth along with partner 'Roots and Shoots' (Jane Goodalls organisation) are doing weekly clean ups around the Naha (Okinawa's capital) Monorail stations.

ROOTS & SHOOTS MEMBER, OCEAN, FLIES A DOVE OF PEACE AROUND THE WALKING TREEMAN AT THE SHURI CASTLE CELEBRATION EARTH OPENING EVENT ----------------------------------------------------------

Peace Mediations/Prayer Ceremonies/Candlelight Vigils Are being held the entire year through Japan and elsewhere Leading Dutch Meditaion Therapist, Veeresh will be visiting Okinawa to give sessions round the time of the International Day of Peace
Tree Planting Ceremonies Tree plantings are happy events that draw a lot of positive PR and major ones are planned throughout the year. Trees are now being planted throughout Japan, Okinawa and Taiwan.
This list does not incude all events and as the year proceeds many more are expected.

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25/11/08
CELEBRATION EARTH

Photo: Cover of 2008 International Peace Day Magazine

War, war everywhere. So what can we do about it? Well we can mobilise millions of people by hosting global celebrations for peace around the time of The International day of Peace (September 21st). We intend to go one step further, by making our celebration a six month event.

Next year in Okinawa, were going to have an Earth Celebration, a six month Declaration of Peace that begins on April 1st with a peace symposium and ends with a tree planting/concert bash on the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

Celebration Earth will be promoted throughout Asia and around the world by an array of activities including the SACRED RUN organised and created by Dennis banks founder of the AIM, the American Indian Movement. Also involved in the organisation of the event is Shokichi Kina San, Okinawa and Japan's most famous international musician, who now serves as Senator for Okinawa in the Japanese Diet. Shokichi San has for decades been a leading activist for peace and through his music has carried the message of peace around the world, in 1996 he represented Asia at the Atlanta Olympic Games and in 2008 at the games of Beijing.

With Kina Shikitchi At His Naha City Nightclub

Together with Shokichi San and many Okinawan and mainland Japanese friends we aim to bring the International Day of Peace into the forefront of next years global activities. Our friend Yuji Miyata, who has just finished a walk through Korea promoting the preservation of wetlands, will start walking again in January, from the place he left off.

Yuji will walk a little through mainland Korea, spreading Celebration Earth/Peace Day message, planting trees for people killed at war and then head onto the island of Jeju, where many Koreans lost their lives in a purge of people said to be communists, but most were just unassuming farmers – an act remembered today as an atrocity. From Jeju, Yuji will journey to Okinawa, where he around the island and finish at the Peace Symposium. Through his action it is hoped that people in Korea will join our activities and further unite the people's of both lands. Following this Yuji will then walk through the other islands of Okinawa all the way to Taiwan. In Taiwan he will walk and continue to spread the Celebration Earth/Peace Day Message until September 2st when through various activities the people of Taiwan, Korea and Okinawa and mainland Japan will be spiritually linked.

On another front Koichi Nakatani, who walked with me for a few years, and is now known as the tree planting father, will do a relay walk (beginning April 1st) with his wife Ai and son Ishi, from Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, all the way through the mainland down to Okinawa . Expected to join him are thousands of people, who will be holding a host of activities including the planting of trees and peace meditations in along the way. On the meditation side, the folks at the Holland based Humaniversity will revisit Okinawa to lead meditations and peace therapy sessions on and around September 21st, the International Day of Peace.

This is just a brief introduction of the Celebration Earth events planned for next year. Peace need not be a vision. Peace can be a reality. Please consider joining with us in Okinawa. You will find yourself most welcome in a very lovely land.

This is a part of the This is a part of the 'CULTURE OF PEACE' a UN designated Peace Messenger Initiative

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06/10/08
EARTH CHAMPIONS AMBASSADOR

Tomorrow a ceremony will be held in Hong Kong to honour their EARTH CHAMPIONS, citizens nominated by the local community for their good work and actions on behalf of the earth and humanity.
Earth Champions awards have been presented since the year 2000, when Nelson Mandela gave the first award to a young girl from Australia. Since then communities around the world have been invited to nominate their local heroes, people perhaps hitherto unknown by the community at large, to become a an Earth Champion. The goal of the EARTH CHAMPIONS ORGANISATION, founded by Australian Fiona Matthews, is to show that you don't need to be a superstar, celebrity or millionaire to make the world of difference. An ordinary caring person fits the hero category as well as any other and the Earth Champions Quest is to discover those little/big people making a difference.

This year it's Hong Kong's time to nominate their earth Champions and tomorrow, the people chosen as exemplars of their community will be honoured at a gala ceremony featuring leading international and local figures.

Now we come back to the special video we have to make while on our way to Shodoshima. I have to make an award acceptance speech, kind of like the Oscars without all the glitz and glamour. I've been chosen to become the Earth Champions Ambassador. It's a special position that recognises my contribution to the global community and the fact that I am a hard man to peg down. I don't live in in this country or that, yet I have a home wherever I go. The Earth is my home. So, I've been chosen to represent the Earth and it's Earth Champions as Ambassador, to spread the word that we're all heroes when we work for the common good. I can't be there in person, but I can in spirit. Congratulations to Hong Kong's Earth Champions.

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05/09/08
INTRODUCING THE WONDERFUL WORLD WORLD TREE PLANTING FESTIVAL

Photo: Konomi Happy With Trees In Deserts Of Inner Mongolia

I am now the President of a new organisation dedicated to planting trees in already desertified, deforested and suffering from the effects of Global Warming.

In April Konomi and I joined the NGO Make The Heaven, to help lead a group of 100 volunteers from Japan on a tree planting mission to Inner Mongolia. The goal was to plant 105,000 trees with the local people in a desertified region. The trees planted would help stabilize the sand and reduce the yellow sandstorms that blow across China, Korea and Japan. We had a marvellous and happy time planting trees in the desert and were pleased to see that trees planted on Make The Heaven 's previous trips were growing well and, according to the locals, were already reducing the sandstorms.

On the ten hour bus ride from the deserts back to Beijing, everyone was tired, but we could not sleep for we were so excited. Tentsukeman, the founder of Make The Heaven, the other organisers of the trip and ourselves got together and planned new activities. We would unite our efforts to spread the tree plantings around the world. We would create a new entity and call it the Wonderful World Tree Planting Festival and through this travelling planting festival we would bring the world trees.

The Wonderful World Tree Planting Festival aims to plant trees where they are most needed, in deforested, arid regions already suffering from the impact of global warming. We in the organisation know that we can make a difference. Between us we've been responsible for the planting of millions of trees around the world. We also know that tree planting is a sacred act. Just placing one hands into the soil brings you in touch with nature and you cannot help marvel at how good it feels to give life. So tree planting is good for the earth and good for the human. I have never been to a tree planting where people have been unhappy. In fact it's exactly the opposite. I've seen members of government arrive to plant trees in suits with long serious faces, but the moment they put a tree in the ground their faces light up and a smile breaks out.

Tree plantings help people to feel good and because people feel good they want to do more for the earth. That's why we created the Wonderful World Tree Planting Festival. We wanted to expand our good work and to expand our goodwill, to share the joys of tree planting and allow everyone to have a jolly good time doing nice things for the earth and humanity.

Our next activities include trips to Inner Mongolia and South Africa (April & Sept 2009). These trips will see the planting of many trees and will be supported by the one yen campaign that begins next month. This one yen campaign will enable everyone to participate in a big or small way. That's our goal. To be inclusive. To give everyone an opportunity to do something nice. And to show that giving to the earth is like giving to a friend. Joyful.

The Wonderful World Tree Planting Festival gets launched in November 2008 with the ONE YEN Campaign – a campaign created to give everyone an opportunity to participate in the planting of trees and the re-greening of the planet.

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AUGUST 2008
OVER: THE GREENING THE OLYMPICS WALK THROUGH CHINA.

High profile tree plantings and extensive media coverage enabled the 3140 km walk from Hong Kong to Beijing, (Sep.2007 - Aug.2008) to spread the environmental message throughout China. Thank you to our Chinese and International friends who joined and supported our walk. Your support was invaluable.

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JUNE 2008
SHINING WORLD LEADERSHIP/PROTECTION AWARD

We broke off our walk through Mainland China for a while, to fly to Hong Kong so I could accept the Shining World /Leadership/Protection Award from the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association.

This award has been given to people such as Al Gore and Dr. Jane Goodall by The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association and they seek to empower good people doing good works. The Taiwan based spritual association has been actively campaigning to stop global warming.

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25/03/08
NGO MAKE THE HEAVEN ADD 312,000 TREES

Since 2000 I have been encouraging the planting of 100,000,000 trees for the approximately 100,000,000 people killed during the last century of war. Thanks to the help of friends and supporters at least 11,000,000 have been planted and dedicated to this cause. Now that number is 11,312,000, thanks to Make The Heaven and their supporters.
Ten days ago we were in Inner Mongolia with Make The Heaven, a Japanese NGO and 100 Japanese volunteers planting trees in the desert to help stop the terrible sandstorms that whip up every year. This 110,00 trees will be planted in total and the founder and president of Make The Heaven, retired TV Comedian Tensukeman has dedicated all these trees and an extra 202,thousand planted in Inner Mongolia and Cambodia to the 100,000,000 tree campaign.

This is wonderful news, and more trees are being added everyday.

By planting and dedicating one hundred million trees for the victims of war, this shows that many people around the world support the call for peace.

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17.12.2007
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY MOTION SUPPORTING GREEN OLYMPICS WALK
EDM 601: Green Olympics And The Erathwalker's Campaign

"That this House welcomes Paul Coleman's walk from Hong Kong to Beijing to help to encourage China to host an environmentally-friendly Olympics in Beijing in 2008; supports his effort to raise awareness of these issues; welcomes the support of the Chinese Forestry Ministry for his walk; encourages and supports China's effort to develop sustainability; wishes for a successful Beijing Olympics; urges all concerned with the 2012 London Olympic games to ensure that they will be truly sustainable; and acknowledges that a green London Olympics will advance British environmental industries and technologies that will ultimately benefit the global environment."
Entered by Walley, Joan MP For Stoke on Trent North
Supported by 17 other Members of Parliament:

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10/11/07
ANTEA TEA COMPANY ADD 750,000 TREES PLANTED IN VIETNAM

In 2004, during my first walk through Japan, I met up with Mr. Hideo Kawashima, inventor and founder of ReBran Corporation. Hideo organised my first tree planting event in Japan, at a secondary school in the Prefecture of Aichi. The tree was planted was a lemon and every year I receive a picture from the school of the tree and the fruit it bears.

A few days later, myself and then walking companion Koichi Nakatani stayed at Hideo's and discovered his many eco friendly inventions, marketed through ReBran, and of his intention to go into business with his friend who had just purchased land in Vietnam. Their plan was to plant tea trees on the high mountian plateau to enable the people of Vietnam to find employment and to market the tea, which they intended to grow in as natural a manner as possible.

Mr. Kawashima, asked if the trees that they planted could be in honour of people killed at war as a way to support to my mission to encourage the planting of at least 100,000 millions trees; one tree for every man, woman and child killed in the last century of war.

Of course this was a most perfect scenario; trees planted in Vietnam, a place that experienced an horrendous war and is still suffering from the environmental and human consequences. Readily I agreed.

We said goodbye and I continued my walks around the planet, always wondering, how was the Tea Planting in Vietnam going? How many trees had they planted?

Recently I found out, when I received a message from Koichi, saying that he had re-established contact with Mr. Kawashima and the project was going well. He put us back in touch and I discovered that over 750,000 Tea Trees had been planted since last we met. The goal is two million. Could he add them to my list? Of course he could.

This brings the total of trees planted for people killed at war, at almost 11,000,000. There's still a long way to go, but the balls rolling and picking up steam.

I have been asked by Mr. Kawashima to endorse the tea from the plantation which we be marketed in Japan from the beginnning of next year. I am just now preparing the endorsement of this tea that will benefit the people of Vietnam and the people of Japan. This is what my walking mission is all about. Lets restore the earth following war and enable the land and the people to flourish. Through nature there can be continued peace.

Congratulations to Mr. Kawashima, President of Antea Tea Company and all of its people for a job well done.

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