We pose a question about biodiversity to people representing a range of careers. One person who receives the question brainstorms to reply to it and passes the same question on to another. The question is answered through a relay of people.
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03/09/2014 Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (6) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity
- Teppei Douke
- Kirihoshidaikon is my 2-year-old daughter’s favorite food. She sometimes leaves vegetables uneaten, but kirihosidaik...
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25/07/2014 Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (5) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity
- Ritsu Endo
- In the spring of 2013, I visited the Republic of Seychelles in the West Indian Ocean. The Seychelles is famous for its end...
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18/07/2014 Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (4) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity
- Noriko Takemoto
- Which foods remind me of nature? While thinking about this question I received an invitation to a presentation on enjoying veget...
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27/06/2014 Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (3) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity
- Toshimori Takahashi
- One day during the first week of May, my family and I visited Furumine Shrine (古峯神社) in Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture. F...
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16/06/2014 Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (2) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity
- Yoko Aoki
- In the United Kingdom, we have a green leafy vegetable called chard which looks like spinach. This vegetable can also be f...
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16/05/2014 Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (1) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity
- Ryo Kohsaka
- Recently, I visited Noto Peninsula and participated in the harvest of sangainegi, top onion, indigenous to the area. A far...
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11/11/2013 What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (4) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?
- Juan Carlos Castilla
- I got interested in biodiversity by two different. First, and expectantly, at my early academic career when I was a polychaete (...
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30/09/2013 What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (3) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?
- Rodrigo Gámez-Lobo
- Scientists and educators agree that children are innate beginning explorers and naturalists, and that we humans have an inborn a...
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09/09/2013 What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (2) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?
- Vo Quy
- One of my first memories as a young boy is of watching birds in the forest. For me the forest of my village contained a lot of s...
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29/08/2013 What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (1) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?
- Kunio Iwatsuki
- When I was a boy, I lived in a mountainous village in Okutamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. After World War II, I entered a n...
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05/08/2013 Green Wave Initiative: (7) Invitation to the Green Wave
- Neil Pratt
- The Green Wave is a worldwide project to help children and youth, their parents, teachers and friends learn about biodiversity a...
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01/07/2013 Green Wave Initiative: (6) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?
- Ade Rustandy, MM
- I joined Green Wave in 2010 through the Children’s Forest Program (CFP) introduced into our school by OISCA. ...
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17/05/2013 Green Wave Initiative: (5) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?
- Rajat Agrawal
- I joined the Green Wave in Tohoku co-organized by OISCA and AEON in Japan in the spring of 2012. When I visited Japanes...
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30/04/2013 Green Wave Initiative: (4) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?
- Yasuaki Nagaishi
- Since 2009, OISCA International (OISCA) has involved more than 24,000 individuals in 18 countries in the campaign as re...
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16/10/2012 Green Wave Initiative: (3) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?
- José F. González-Maya
- As part of my work in Latin America I always noticed the importance of involving local people in conservation. At the end, conse...
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31/08/2012 Green Wave Initiative: (2) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?
- Jan Schipper
- While working with the crew from the 1000 Days for the Planet mission, myself and other members of the Sierra to Sea Institute h...
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21/06/2012 Green Wave Initiative: (1) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?
- Jean Lemire
- As part of our mission 1000 Days for the Planet, I had the privilege of visiting the Midway Atoll, part of the Papahānaumokuākea...