Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09)Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09) on September 18th, 2009

Now is the last day in Seattle. Until yesterday, I felt it’s short but suitable. It was like a flash. Brilliant and dazzling. So I needed to have time for closing my eyes. But now, I miss everything… In this one month, I met so many people, companies, organizations and new thought. Especially, It was [...]

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Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09)Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09) on September 7th, 2009

We went to PCC natural markets and interviewed with Diana Crane, director of sustainability on September 3. PCC is the largest consumer-owned natural food co-operative in the U.S. that features local, organic, diverse items. In store, there were many items. For instance of tofu, there were so diverse – curry, with soy souce, italian? etc. [...]

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Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09)Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09) on August 31st, 2009

Whether to do or not to do, that’s the difference, I guessed. Today, we visited Brown Paper Tickets which provided quality ticketing service for ticket sellers and buyers with the smallest service fees in the Industry. With their service, ticket sellers can use a lot of useful services (for example, 24/7 internet and phone orders, [...]

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Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09)Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09) on August 27th, 2009

Hello everyone ! I’m Yusuke Sawa a member of SIIS 2009. Today, 4 of SIISers visited to 4 interesting and very sustainable wise companies for the internship of Shorebank Pacific. That’s very impressive time ! In detail, Hide (also SIISer) will post. I post some pictures of today’s exciting time ! Best, Yusuke

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Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09)Yusuke Sawa (SIIS'09) on August 20th, 2009

Hello, my name is Yusuke Sawa. I’m 32 years old. My hobby is reading books, music, taking a walk, chatting…and so on. I worked at Oriental Land company (which operated disneyland in Tokyo), and quit this March. Now I’m on my journey looking for happiest company and peoples. My interest (theme) is how we can [...]

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