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An economic zone based on local resources is formed by issuing the sales consideration as a local currency and returning it to the participants, with establishing regular logistics to effectively transport and utilize local resources such as collected thinned lumber and unused lumber. Takayama city, Gifu Prefecture, is the largest city in Japan (almost the same area as Tokyo), and 92% of it is occupied by forests. Despite the abundant forest resources, the small population of 88,000 was spending a lot of money to buy fossil fuels and flowing overseas (eg : Kerosene consumption is 2.4 billion yen every year). In addition, the forest resources carried out by thinning are not utilized well locally, and foreign timber is often used as the material for locally produced woodwork and buildings. In order to change this inefficient flow, the NPO Katsu Energy Academy, which we operate, has built a "regular logistic system for thinned wood" and an "economic model that circulates the value created by thinning woods as a local currency."
