Do you remember that I mentioned the research of charcoal burying at complex housings like a nursing home or a housing for fatherless families, and city planning complex in a park, on this site? It is a broad research based on the hypothesis that you can terminate the bad smell by increasing the negative ions and all the people there become healthy and can sleep well with this method.
By the way, before the research, a housing research group of natural materials called “Healing, Health Housing Research” composed of more than 20 companies I instruct has supplied service to deliver a building that produces a lot of negative ions after measuring the total VOC (sick house causing materials like formaldehyde) and supplying its data to the customer. They have already build more than 800 residences over the country, and they are receiving questionnaire papers of 200% customer satisfaction one after another.
They are rapidly extending their reach, as their buildings are so different from the houses the customers used to live that they act as if a sales representative. Without any sales strategy, the residents appreciate the builders and tell others how wonderful and healthy their house is. They tell how better their family relationships has become since they moved to their new house, even more persuasive than a sales representative.
I wrote about the data that the sick house symptoms have totally improved by remodeling the house and many other things in my book “Live in Natural Material House!” published from Seikou Syobou. I recommend this book to people who want to learn about the good things of natural material housings for details and the total VOC. This book is helpful for the people who do not believe in the negative ions.
By the way, there is a constructing company called “Mirai Juken” in Nagoya, which is a member of the Healing, Health Housing Research. Mr. Kutsuna, the president of Mirai Juken and also a first-class architect, is one of the most passionate researchers in the Research. He is trying to figure out the way to build a basement room keeping the cost as low as possible, and many other things????I have heard that he recently invented the way to build a comfortable basement room that produces a lot of negative ions and can be kept from humidity at 600 thousand yen per tsubo, which should usually cost 1 million.
The reason why He and I have been getting along with each other so much is that we have talked about doing a large-scale agriculture with carbon burying from a long time ago. We are not satisfied with just remodeling houses with natural materials, curing sick house syndrome by carbon burying, or turning the house full of positive ions to a house of negative ions that is very comfortable, cool in summer, and thus does not need much air-conditioning.
Studying more than I taught him for these 3 years, believe or not, he has become able to grow the rice that is qualified as Uonuma-Rice class. He began to distribute 2kg of his rice to the house owners and even established a rice company eventually. A company called “Satake” is a famous and reliable company to certify the grade of rice. Satake certifies the grade of rice by many tests including organoleptic assessment using various kinds of machines.
Three years after he began to research, he finally succeeded to grow his satisfying rice. I am one of the regular customers of his rice as well, but I am also gathering the feedbacks of the rice from dozens of rice lovers. His rice is gaining great popularity as follows: “White rice”, “sweet rice”, “rice with deep taste”, “the taste changes as you chew, and go together very well with side dishes”, “especially delicious when it’s a rice ball and cold”, “stays white after some time” and “stays sticky and tastes good even after some time.”
However, only one friend of mine who always have only the best-quality Uonuma Rice left a comment, “the rice I always buy has extraordinary aroma. It’s so good that I can eat 3 bowls of it without any side dishes, with only miso soup and pickled plum. So it makes me gain weight. After all, they dry the rice in the sun after harvesting. This rice you gave is not as good as my sun-dried rice yet. This is very good, but good as rice that keeps you from eating too much.” I enjoyed hearing her impressive answer too, because this surely cannot be determined by machines.
Anyway, Mr. Kutsuna is not a rice-growing specialist of decades of experience, but he expanded his business from housing to growing rice while researching ion, and succeeded growing very good rice. It is wonderful that everyone can make good organic rice (it’s a governmental policy to approve the rice as “organic” if the specified chemicals are not used) as a side business. As we will have to face a food crisis soon, Mr. Kutsuna and I would like to research more about the delicious rice that everyone can grow easily. If you are interested, please check out the website.
