The 5ivePlanets Interpretive Center was founded in 2010 in Nishiya, Asahi Ward, Yokohama to serve as a demonstration and education base for various 5ivePlanet initiatives and projects. The small residence which houses meeting rooms, education space and the FivePlanets head office, has been modified to produce food, energy and recycle waste to resources. The ongoing project aims to eventually have wind and solar power to generate 100% of its energy and resource needs.

The center is located in a home donated by the Ogura family. Part of a larger initiative to create a sustainable green economic zone in Asahi-ku, our projects aim to inform and involve the local community and serve as a development hub and incubator for organic growth in the area.

Visitors may view the onsite aquaponics, bio-char and eco house features. Contact Us for more information on tours and upcoming investor salons.

In order to allow our members to share information and learn from each other we have aso set up an interactive members site at http://www.5iveplanets.ning.com. Become a members and meet our community!

Buy a Koi Nobori and send us an email via message2Tohoku@gmail.com with a message you would like to send to children who are living in shelters in the affected prefectures. Our volunteers will write your message on a white Koi Nobori and we will fly it in Yokohama’s Port on

Some well-known environmentalists have speculated that by 2050, if we don’t change current lifestyle and development trends that we may need the equivalent of 5 planets or more to support the growing demands we are placing on our fragile Earth. This is not an assessment backed by solid science but

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The Headquarters of 5ivePlanets is a house in Asahi-ku, Yokohama generously donated by the Ogura Family. The Center which is due to open in May 2011, will feature an interpretive center introducing the potential of aquaponics and biochar as technologies that have the potential to enhance food production capacity in