News
December 2011
Greenheart is delighted announce our new solar power sponsor, Sovello. Sovello's innovative products are matched only by their fierce commitment to sustainability. We look forward to working with them as we get our first ship into the water.
October 2011
Greenheart presents at the Sustainable Shipping Conference in Vancouver.
September 2011
Greenheart attends GreenPort Congress and BAUM Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
July 2011
Gh adds several Ports-of-Call to the route of our maiden voyage: Hamburg, Germany, Cascadia (Vancouver/Seattle), Singapore, and Cape Town, South Africa.
June 2011
Efforts to donate our crane-rig technology to Tohoku tsunami disaster relief continue, and are featured on sustainableshipping.com. (download pdf of article)
May 2011
Gh crew goes up to Tohoku to volunteer for disaster relief efforts and pitch Gh-rig-as-disaster-recovery-tool idea on the ground. Some pics from our volunteer efforts can be found here.
April 2011
We receive a battery bank and electric drive system schematic and offer from the Micro-vett electric vehicle company in Italy. We formulate an application for our Gh mast/crane in the conversion of fishing boats into work boats for use in the clean-up and reconstruction of the tsunami-devastated Tohoku region of Japan.
March 2011
Greenheart's lead architect, Kaku-san goes to Korea and meets with the Small Shipbuilding Institute who express interest in cooperation. We approve a summer internship for Mariana of Mexico and New York.
Some of us attended the International PV and Battery Expo here in Tokyo, and the International Boat Show in Yokohama.
German PV module maker Sovello begins talks to become Gh's first solar sponsor. Very inspiring for us, of course. Lots of thanks for their confidence and cooperation.
February 2011
We reconsider and draw a new global route for s/v Greenheart's maiden voyage. Adding large clockwise loops in the N Atlantic and N Pacific will facilitate south/south trading and longer application testing periods.
February 2011
Greenheart project manager Michele and family visit Japan for lots of meetings, parties, and face time.
December 2010
Greenheart inaugurates the Open Design Forum to publish our ship design details as they are approved, and to invite contributors to comment on, and improve the plans.
September 2010
We secure the services of Kaku Haruhiko, a naval architect based in Yokohama. He has begun to render an initial draft from the many concept drawings and application criteria documents.
August 2010
Our interns Hemlata Jaitawat and Roger Kim return to their colleges after months of service and good cheer.
July 2010
4th: A Greenheart / DMI meeting at Hobo Junction, MN, USA to discuss a US shipbuilding initiative, as well as plans for our South Asian operations.
June 2010
14th: Negotiations with South Asian shipbuilders begin as we proceed towards our first ship.
12th: A Greenheart Tokyo field trip to Miyagi for rice planting, mud construction, strategy meetings, and conviviality with our Commercial Director, Gavin Allwright and his family.
9th: Greenheart's two summer interns arrived at the Tokyo office.
8th: World Ocean Day.
May 2010
16th: Greenheart director gave keynote address to the business networking group, Yokohama Exchange Society at the Yokohama Country Club.
12th: Yet another European connection as a German solar panel manufacturer expresses interest in becoming a sponsor.
1st: Greenheart becomes a chartered NPO in Europe.
April 2010
12~14th: Finances and budgeting meeting at Ibaraki office.
21~23rd: Greenheart attended Sea Japan, an international shipping convention in Tokyo, and came away grateful for all the generous expert advice and support.
11th: Tokyo-Bologna video link to address Italian chapter's fundraiser. Grazie a tutti!
March 2010
28th: Inaugural meeting of Greenheart Italia in Bologna. Grazie a tutti!
13th: Eco Movie Night was held at our Tokyo office. Our gratitude to everyone present for an inspiring evening!
January 2010
16th: Haiti Earthquake Relief benefit event at Greenheart offices. 50,000Y raised for MSF in Haiti. We thank all the participants.
15th: We launched the Italian language Greenheart website!
December 2009
19th: Summit Finale: COP-15 report / dinner party video viewing of the feed from COP-15 and discussion session was held at our Tokyo office. We thank all the participants. It was very nice to see and have an engaging evening with inspiring people.
16th: Sail ship arrival and organic and Fair Trade products sale "Two boats from Greenpeace followed the newly built schooner Tres
Hombres to berth in front of Amalienborg Palace. The ship arrived at sunset, and immediately attracted the first curious spectators. Cargo space is full of organic goods, which here for the first time are also transported in a sound and environmentally friendly manner."
12th: We put a good effort to support "Sign a Real Deal" Global Day of Action by tcktcktck.org
7th - 18th: Greenheart monitored this important event by organizing daily evening gatherings to follow the conference developments and to share our visions and objectives with the participants at these events. + Eco-movie nights.
November 2009
24th: Presentation at Green Mondays' November meet in Tokyo
10th: Launch of the new Greenheart website
Jambo International events.
October 2009
26th: 7-10pm, for GreenMondays
24th 350 Climate Action Party Yoyogi Park
1st: Greenheart's 2nd employee starts today. A welcome boost to Greenheart’s capacity to realize our goals in the coming months.
September 2009
25th: Earth Overshoot Day.
22nd: (at 6:57PM) Akira Kozak is born to happy parents and best wishes.
21st: THE GLOBAL WAKE-UP CALL: at more than 2600 events in 135 countries across the globe, we joined together to issue a deafening wake-up call to world leaders on climate change.
July 2009
20th: We got our .org domain back from "cyber squatters."
1st: It is a memorable day: Greenheart has got its first employee working all day (and sometimes night too) for our objectives.
June, 2009
4th: A beautiful baby girl named Romane was born to the family of Jeremy Marnham, our European Coordinator.
May 2009
25th: The Greenheart internship program has started: Hemlata Jaitawat, from India has come to Tokyo for two and a half months during her University's summer vacation. (If you are interested in the Greenheart Internship program write to michele.maurizzi[at]greenheartproject[dot]org) 
15th: The opening of the new Headquarters in Tokyo.
April 2009
28th: Our domain registration lapsed and was squatted by an 'agent' that represents a 'client'. It caused severe disruptions in our networking operations.
Spring, 2009
- Greenheart received a generous donation from an individual donor (who wishes to remain anonymous) that allows us to engage a naval architecture firm to prepare a set of construction plans for the vessel. There is enough remaining after this expense to open a building fund for the first Greenheart ship. A ship under construction seems just over the horizon.
- Greenheart was invited to give a presentation at the alternative climate summit in Copenhagen in December. We began planning the launch of a new clean marine transport label, a 'Blue Sea Miles' designation that will allow consumers & business to support carbon-free ocean freight.
Winter, 2008/2009
- To formulate our objectives beyond our first ship, we composed a planning and organizational document that lays out in detail the techniques and strategies for achieving a world with a global fleet of Greenheart-class ships in a wide variety of applications. This master planning document led us to restructure the Project in ways that should make it much more effective around the world.
- We launched Greenheart's virtual office, which lets us collaborate over many time zones and facilitates internal communications, planning, and overall coordination. The public can access some of it at forum[dot]greenheartproject[eu]
Fall, 2008
- Greenheart was joined by two new volunteers who added important skills to our team. Michele Maurizzi is experienced in complex project management, and has already found many ways to improve our internal organization. 篠崎聡さん (Satoshi Shinozaki) came to us via the Dancing Monkey Institute, just when we needed an IT expert to upgrade our database, set up our internet-based office, and oversee the development of our new website.
