Giveness is now preparing for Giveness Japan operation. 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 ...

I've currently studied that there is paper made by stones. Traditional paper is using wood pulp which is creating many environmenmtal isuues for the world.  "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 ...

It was a super hot day yesterday. Tempureture was 37or 38C and about 115F. It's hotter than body tempureture. Oh I'm dying.

There is another trip to Taiwan from this week until end of this month. There are several business meetings but hopefully I can take some private time for meeting with frineds and for appreciating Taiwanese local food. 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 ...

http://www.bonnaroo.com/2007-lineup 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.