Beyond the circular economy. Mana Earthly Paradise with a social circular design

Earth Company

2021

PRIZE

  • The Novices of Sais Prize
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"Mana Earthly Paradise is an ethical hotel that aims to go one step further from "circular" to a "regenerative" way of being, where the wellbeing of the environment and society is realized by existing. We will not only introduce all kinds of eco-technology, but also commit to the regeneration of the global environment through ethical restaurants and marches, and spread the word through education.

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Established in 2019, Mana Earthly Paradise was founded to reimagine and redefine sustainability in business, especially in the tourism industry, which constitutes 80% of the Balinese economy. Mana is managed by Earth Company, a social enterprise that empowers paradigm-shifting changemakers in the Asia Pacific and offers transformative training programs to professionals and students. Mana is the most recent social business of Earth Company that aims to host these training programs on sustainability and social innovation. Thus, Mana’s key objective is “edu-tainment” – education and entertainment.
Mana incorporates regeneration in every aspect possible, with the entire resort constructed using natural building techniques with ethically sourced materials. Combining comfort and consciousness, the villas are all earthbag walls with bamboo roofs that have natural ventilation, 100% solar-powered lighting, water-efficient toilets and showerheads, and eco-friendly toiletries in reusable containers. Offering an affordable dormitory was a deliberate design choice to enable the next generation to experience the future of tourism.

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Hiroki Tanahashi

Loftwork Inc. Innovation Maker

The Novices of Sais Prize

The Novices of Sais is an unfinished novel by the 18th Century German Romantic writer Novalis. Sais is an ancient Egyptian town where Osiris, the god of fertility and agriculture, is said to have been dismembered and buried by his brother Set. In the novel, Novalis attempts to define nature thus: "As the colors of the spirit merge into one, the individual natural objects and phenomena all merge more and more into one, taking on more and more perfect, more and more human forms, and flowing into these colors." This is the ideal state in which humans are at one with nature, just as Osiris was before he was torn apart by Set. I dream that my stay at the ethical hotel Mana Earthly Paradise will be similar to what Novalis wrote next: “To the people of days gone by, all things must have seemed human, familiar and intimate, and their eyes must have seen those things at their most vivid.”

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