9th Beach Grass competition Details
● Date : March 26th (Sun)
● Time : 13 to 14 o’clock
● Location : Outside of Kumazawa Liquor, where Uminowa vol.3. Is taking place.
● Fee : Free
● What to bring : One special rare beach grass.
From Shonan to Overseas!
Founded in 2006, Beach Money has been widely utilized in many towns in Japan as an environmentally friendly local currency that cleans up our beaches.
Currently, we have 128 Beach Money shops in Miyagi, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Shizuoka, Yamanashi, Osaka, Wakayama, Kochi, Hyogo*, Nagasaki, Fukuoka, kagoshima and Oahu, HI.
*Hyogo has created their own system and it's called "Love Money.”
We are always looking for new shops & businesses worldwide who would like to participate in Beach Money. Please feel free to contact us.
Beach Money Guide 2015 (7/20/2015)
Beach Money Guide 2015 copies(only Japanese) can be found at Beach Money Shops. Join the beach cleanups and get one free.
BEACHMONEY x GIVENCHY ULTRAMARINE Collaboration(July,2016)
Second Edition of MyLittlePocket is also sponsored by GIVENCHY ULTRAMARINE which has been widely known for it's fresh & aquatic scent since 1995. My little Pocket is the portable, reusable and take-everywhere bag to support you picking up trash even before it gets to the water. Click here for the details of MyLittlePocket.
Enoshima Aquarium's Monthly Beach Cleanup!
Enoshima Aquarium has been organizing beach cleanups on the 3rd Sunday of every month 11:00a.m. to 12:00p.m. (9:00a.m. to 10:00a.m. in July - September) and we are there most dates. Invite your friends and family to the beach cleanup events to keep our beaches clean and find beautiful beach glass.On Educational Material!
A chapter about Beach Money is in the NHK radio English textbook.
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Uminowa vol.3 Details
On March 26th, 2017 at Kumazawa Liquor in Chigasaki Uminowa vol.3 will be held. (at the Outside and the basement of Mokichi wurst.
Portable trash bag called “My Little Pocket”
This MLP is now 1.2 yrs old, as it was made in Jan. of 2016. Does everyone have it in hand??Since I am living in Izu and mostly move around by K-truck, it’s kind of difficult to fully utilize the MLP, but when I go to Tokyo or Shonan area and move on foot/train, it just boosts its power.
Mr Tachikawa’s art exhibit
My BeachMoney friend Mr Tachikawa at LCF is going to have an exhibit in Yuigahama, Kamakura. He is a professional jewelry artist who loves the ocean and supports BeachMoney in many ways. His art work has been presented to the winner of our beach glass contest many times, and you will find more of his beach glass arts at the exhibit.
A fisherman joined BeachMoney!
Mr. Hirayama, a local fisherman in Minami Izu town joined BeachMoney and started supporting the MyLittlePocket program. At Daigo Maru if you bring a piece of beach glass (Any color is accepted. The piece needs to be well rounded and bigger than a circle of 3cm diameter.) which you find during your beach clean up, you will get a freshly caught fish for exchange.
About the 3rd annual Uminowa Festival
As we already posted it in BeachMoney Guide 2016, the 3rd annual Uminowa Festival will be held at Kumazawa Shuzo on March 26, 2017. Uminowa is the beach glass oriented arts&crafts festival for all ages and genders, which is dedicated to increasing the understanding of the ocean.
BeachMoney was on a TV program called “EARTH Lab” (TBS)
TBS program “Earth Lab” focused on BeachMoney on this Saturday, Dec 24th, 2016. The TV crew joined us at the Enoshima Aquarium beach clean up and the 8th beach glass contest on Nov 20th as we mentioned in the previous post.
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Photo shooting the beach glass contest winner
I have been holding this winner piece of the beach glass contest and thinking about the best way to photograph it, and all of a sudden I came up with an idea.
EARTH Lab (BS TBS)
On this Christmas Eve night I will be in the TV program called “EARTH Lab “on BS TBS (Start at 11:24pm, Saturday on December 24th on air).
Beach Cleanup with Minami-Izu town officials
BeachMoney started being recognized by many people in Minami Izu area. The other day I had a chance to talk about BeachMoney with young city officials while we were doing beach clean up at Ounohama beach. We also talked about the future of our town and I suggested that we should be more appealing how good we take care of our nature.
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