Hey everyone, My name is Salem Willard, born & raised in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). I'm a third-year ALT at Kusatsu High School in Shiga Prefecture. I keep busy with a variety of hobbies, including singing/songwriting/guitaring, reading, cooking and cycling! As this year's BEE Japan 2009 Ride Team Leader, I hope to raise environmental awareness, provide information about these environmental issues, and to successfully lead this year's team across the country to promote sustainable living. I feel like the current supply-heavy side of the global economy is eating up resources too quickly and, if not, careful, could completely destroy the environment as we know it. Japan has made so many developments in recycling & automotive emissions standards, and has so many more possibilities--geothermal & other renewable forms of energy, reducing packaging & consumption (vending machines!). If you feel passionately about reducing waste in Japan (such as plastic bags, waribashi, etc), maintaining a clean place for us all to live, and thinking about future environmentally sustainable ways of living, please give me a holler! Peace, Salem 皆さんこんにちは！ セイラムと呼んでね。 ジョージア州のアトランタ市（アメリカ）から来て滋賀県の草津高校で3年英語を教えている。大幅な趣味を持って（スポーツ、音楽（作曲や演奏、読書、料理など）、とても忙しい人だ！ 今年のBEE Japan 2009 Ride のチームリーダーとして、皆に持続可能の生活に対する意識を深めたいと思う。今まで、世界中の人間は地球について充分に考えないせいで、環境が破壊されているようだね。日本は進歩国の中で、かなり環境に優しくてすばらしいものだが、もっと出来ると思うよ。割り箸やレジ袋を減らす事、自動販売機を使わない事、自転車になる事！地球は皆のホームだから、一緒に自転車で守ろうか？ よろしくね！
Hey again everyone! Sorry for the delay, but BEE 2010 applications are ready and right here to download. If you want to know more about what becoming a BEE rider entails, please check out our Join and Q and A pages here on the website, or read posts from past teams about their experiences. No [...]
The 2009 Tour finished earlier this month, and all of us are busy as…dare I say it…BEEs…trying to readjust to “normal” lifestyles. Ashley, Heraldo, and I have all returned to the US, all unemployed and though I can’t speak for all of us I’m pretty sure we’re happy to be back. Rocio and Lindsey are [...]
The morning of Monday, August 3rd, didn’t start off the way one who is about to engage on a 10 week bicycle journey hopes: rain. The skies of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost city, were gray and trickling down slowly trying to dampen our departure on the BEE Japan 2009 Ride. Not the best omen, but [...]
“After cycling everyday for over 6 weeks, what part of the body hurts the most?” This is a question we put on a recent BEE pub trivia game that we used to raise money while in Hiroshima. Most people made good guesses: legs, knees, lungs. All have certainly ached at one time or another (sorry, [...]
On August 10th we headed out from Sapporo to Tomakomai to catch the ferry to Honshu. Up until that point most of the roads in Hokkaido are memorable–clear blue skies, miles of picturesque farmland, wide, spacious lanes we could feel safe on. But that all changed on the 36, which I have crudely nicknamed the [...]
