Children and adults participating in an eco-friendly community event outdoors.

As One Suzuka Community

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Japanese
  • Ecological
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2000

What we do

Some volunteers gathered to start community building in the end of 2000, aiming the happy world without any conflict.
The name ‘AS-ONE’ was taken from a line of John Lennon’s masterpiece Imagine, ‘and the world will be as one’. Each one lives in their favorite house in each ones favorite way of livingin central Suzuka city, and it is difficult for local citizens to tell our community members apart by appearances. However, we have kept deepening and developing our social systems and activities as a model of sustainable community, as well as succeeding in avoiding being isolated from the wider society.
Since 2006, our new community businesses have emerged, managed in a new manner. One of these businesses, a hand-made-lunch box company, has become very popular. Recently, more than 1000 boxes a day are delivered to people in Suzuka city, thereby increasing local consumption of local products from SUZUKA FARM Co. Ltd.: the community farming company established by the younger generations in 2009. Another community business is Suzuka Culture Station, a cultural enterprise with a private school, established in 2010.
Students, and other interested people, have come to attend the Scienz School to realize their dream, and some stay on to gain practical experience of AS-ONE’s urban-style and not-closed community management. Still others attend ‘The College for Sustainable Society development’, in collaboration with an outside organization, Japan Eco-village Promotion Project (JEPP), since May, 2014.
AS-ONE COMMUNITY is still small and maturing, but we can still work effectively as an experimental site for sustainable community building. Now is the time to go forward towards the mutual target. If we can collaborate with GENOA and GEN, we will be greatly honored, and willingly open our 14 years of experiences as guides for all to realize and create happy societies

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Japanese
  • English
  • Korean
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Community type
  • Coliving
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2000
  • Started living together

Video

https://vimeo.com/as.one.mp4

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Our Community Members

Hirotaka Toya

Landlord of Well Yokodai
Japan

Hiroko Katayama

Trustee of GENOA, Representative of GEN-Japan
Japan

Location

  • Japan

As One Suzuka Community

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Social Media Intern

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Social Media Intern for GEN International Hours: Up to 20/month, flexible around your schedule and availability Location: Remote, work with Eva Goldfarb Focus: Instagram + LinkedIn (TikTok if you’re into it!) Hi! I’m Eva, and I run social media for GEN International — the global network connecting ecovillages, intentional communities, and regenerative culture-builders across every continent. I’m looking for a co-conspirator to help me tell the stories of the people quietly building the future: off-grid villages in the Philippines, permaculture farms in Senegal, urban cohousing projects in Berlin, elders passing down land wisdom in the Andes. It’s a wildly rich, wildly underrepresented world, and I want more people to fall in love with it the way I have. What you’ll actually do: Dream up and create content for Instagram and LinkedIn (reels, carousels, stories, captions that don’t sound like a corporate newsletter) Dig into our global network and turn your findings into stories people want to share Pitch your own ideas. If there’s a series, a theme, a format, or a corner of the network that lights you up, that’s what I want you to focus on. What we’re looking for: A natural storyteller, someone who can spot the human thread in a project update or a photo from a faraway village Genuinely curious about ecovillages, sustainability, intentional community, regenerative living Self-motivated and communicative; this is a flexible, trust-based role Why this role: This isn’t a “post 3x a week and don’t ask questions” internship. You’ll have real creative freedom to work on what excites you, learn how a global grassroots network tells its story, and build a portfolio full of meaningful, purpose-driven content. Plus you’ll be talking to people living some of the most interesting, intentional lives on the planet. If storytelling for a better world sounds like your kind of fun, let’s talk.
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18 years ago

Artosilla, 1999

II Encuentro de Ecoaldeas En el II Encuentro Estatal de Ecoaldeas, celebrado en Artosilla en agosto de 1999, se avanzó considerablemente en la creación de una red de ecoaldeas, al permitir que nos conociéramos unos cuantos colectivos que, en diferentes lugares de la geografía española, estamos trabajando en esta línea. Sin embargo, por ser todavía pocos y por hallarnos todavía en una fase muy inicial, en la última asamblea celebrada en dicho Encuentro se decidió mantener de momento una estructura de coordinación mínima —que recaía por otra parte en la Carrucha Cultural— y esperar que el movimiento de ecoaldeas se fuera consolidando en todo el territorio español antes de crear una verdadera red. También se decidió, que dado que la palabra “ecoaldea” es de uso muy reciente, y algunos colectivos ya llevan trabajando en líneas similares desde hace años, se podría ampliar la red a otro tipo de comunidades sostenibles, como colectividades rurales, comunas urbanas y rurales, municipios o pueblos ecológicos, cooperativas de viviendas, comunidades de desarrollo personal, etc., siempre que se hallen predispuestas a avanzar en la consecución de los requisitos mínimos de ecoaldea. No existen ecoaldeas perfectas, ni en España ni en ningún otro país europeo, y por tanto no se trata de que los colectivos que quieran unirse a la red ibérica de ecoaldeas lo sean completamente. Basta con que haya en ellos una intención de avanzar en el desarrollo de comunidades sostenibles. En Artosilla, los siguientes colectivos constituyeron el germen de la futura Red Ibérica de Ecoaldeas: • Cooperativa de viviendas Valdepiélagos (Madrid) — so********@***ix.net • Asociación La Osa (Asturias) —as********@***sa.org • Municipio ecológico de Amayuelas de Abajo (Palencia) — ce****@********os.es • Asociación La Semilla (Cádiz) — gr*****@***oo.es • Proyecto de Cooperación Nueva Tierra (Sevilla) — qu*****@*******ok.net • Instituto de Permacultura Montsant (Tarragona) — wa**@**ac.es • A
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13 years ago

Curso Online

Esta píldora formativa se dirige a toda persona interesada en formas de vida alternativas. No se requieren conocimientos previos. El alumnado adquirirá conocimientos sobre huertos ecológicos, agricultura ecológica, permacultura, comunidades alternativas, bioconstrucción, arquitectura orgánica y materiales de construcción sostenibles. Modalidad Online. Duración: Se corresponde con un curso presencial de 30 horas lectivas. Horario: A su ritmo. Precio: Dependerá de la opción que elija. ACCESO AL FORMULARIO DE INSCRIPCIÓN: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HFI5ar_DtfaF3OPbzXwU6bnzBvUHs5CsFu1WfAal9pA/viewform >>OPCIÓN 1: 10€ por cada píldora formativa. Tendrá acceso a su píldora formativa durante dos semanas completas las 24 horas del día. La podrá descargar en su ordenador para consultarla cuando quiera cuantas veces quiera. La podrá utilizar como parte de un programa de formación blended (Presencial-Distancia). La persona coordinadora-tutora de su píldora formativa estará a su disposición para aclararle todas las dudas que tenga. >>OPCIÓN 2: 16€ por cada píldora formativa. Tendrá acceso a su píldora formativa durante dos semanas completas las 24 horas del día. La podrá descargar en su ordenador para consultarla cuando quiera cuantas veces quiera. La podrá utilizar como parte de un programa de formación blended (Presencial-Distancia). La persona coordinadora-tutora de su píldora formativa estará a su disposición para aclararle todas las dudas que tenga. Se entregará diploma acreditativo para el alumnado que supere el curso. >>OPCIÓN 3: 20€ por DOS píldoras formativas. Tendrá acceso a sus píldoras formativas durante dos semanas completas las 24 horas del día. Las podrá descargar en su ordenador para consultarlas cuando quiera cuantas veces quiera. Las podrá utilizar como parte de un programa de formación blended (Presencial-Distancia). La persona coordinadora-tutora de sus píldoras formativas estará a su disposición para aclararle todas las dudas que ten

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