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Started Jun 27, 2008

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In the context of Transition Towns my interests / passions are:: I'd like to help you implement complementary currency systems there in Aotearoa...

What are you happy to share about yourself:: A linguist who researches and promotes complementary currency systems. Fluent at Spanish, Portuguese and French, speaks some German and Korean too on top of English adn his native language Japanese.

Where do you live (City or Town):: Fukuoka

Skype Address (optional, but very helpful for collaboration) Install Skype from http://skype.com/download: migjp2003

Website1:: http://www.olccjp.net

Website 2:: http://mig76en.wordpress.com

Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota's Blog

Masanobu Fukuoka died last Saturday

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=394509 (in English)

I don't know if you're familiar with his "One Strow Revolution", but this is just to let you know that the founder of this alternative agriculture died last Saturday in Ehime, Japan.

Posted on August 19, 2008 at 1:49

Algae Biodiesel and a complementary currency system

As I wrote at a forum, it seems to me that New Zealand's biggest wealth is the seas surrounding your territory. Don't forget that you have the 7th largest Economic Exclusive Zone in the world(4,083,744 km²)!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_Economic_Zone#Rankings_by_area

There's a very interesting article about the algae biodiesel.…

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Posted on June 7, 2008 at 19:30

Reggaeton on Timebank in Chile

The song you can find at my music is the reggaeton composed by those who work for a timebank initiative in Santiago, Chile. You can download it at http://juanpablotapia.podomatic.com/ and visit http://bancodeltiempo.blogspot.com/ if you can understand Spanish to learn more.

Posted on June 3, 2008 at 20:30

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At 16:29 on August 3, 2008, Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota said…: Hi James, most of videos on Chiemgauer are only available in German, and the only resource we can use in English is the DVD "La Double Face de la Monnaie" (The Double Face of the Money). Ask Helen Dew on how to get a copy in NZ...

At 22:53 on June 6, 2008, John Rogers said…: Thanks for inviting me to connect with you and good to see you here Miguel. One day we will maybe meet in NZ I hope, as I have never been!

At 11:01 on June 5, 2008, Belinda said…: Hi Miguel
Listened to your radio broadcast a couple of weeks ago it seemed to go well.
Are you back in Japan now?
Our Brooklyn TT group is doing well, 60 people at the last meeting.

Cheers
Belinda

At 7:45 on June 4, 2008, Peter Luiten said…: Good to hear from you, Miguel.

At 18:45 on June 3, 2008, Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota said…: Thanks, Christoph, for your comment. I was impressed to see so quite a few progressive people in NZ and I'd like to keep myself in touch with all of you to support you and/or learn from you whenever necessary...

At 18:30 on June 3, 2008, Christoph Hensch said…: Hi Miguel! Thanks for joining! I think your trip to Aotearoa in April gave you a good insight into what is happening here. Have invited you to join the Transition Currencies group - the place to discuss all things related to creating our local economics.