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Mitsubishi Electric has supported
the Japanese International School in Düsseldorf for many years, and recently,
the company presented the school with three photovoltaic education kits. “It
is important that we teach our children how to take care of the precious resources
of our earth,” explains Noriaki Himi, President of Mitsubishi Electric
Europe's German Branch. “These education kits are very useful in demonstrating
to pupils how solar energy is created with photovoltaic cells.”
Education is one of the ways that Mitsubishi Electric is striving to contribute
to the development of a sustainable society under its ‘Environmental Vision
2021’; the company intends to conduct nature preservation and education
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For five years, NYK has been providing
free transportation for used backpacks bound for school children in Afghanistan
as part of a project initiated by the Japanese Organization for International
Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP). As of the end of June 2009, the NYK
Group had shipped more than 55,000 backpacks from Japan to the war-torn nation,
where about 50% of school-age children do not attend any formal school. In many
towns, school buildings do not even exist, and it is not uncommon to see students
participating in classes outside. Students sometimes use their sturdy, reconditioned
backpacks as desks, while writing on stationery also provided through the JOICFP.
■ http://www.nyk.com/english/release/31/NE_090731_2.html |
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| Toyo Engineering Works has leveraged
the company’s extensive research and experimentation on refrigeration technology
to become a global leader in the commercialization of snow-making equipment.
The company’s snow production system currently helps Gota the polar bear
feel at home at the Oga Aquarium in Japan’s Akita Prefecture. A similar
system, installed at Hong Kong’s popular Ocean Park, allows giant pandas
to frolic in the snow, just as they do in their natural habit, high in the mountains
of China. Spectators take delight in
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about in their own winter wonderlands.
Toyo Engineering Works has also developed cooling systems that use the natural
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ammonia, in place of chlorofluorocarbons
such as Freon.
One of the company’s environmentally-friendly cooling systems was even
used to preserve the frozen wooly mammoth that became a hit at the 2005 World
Exposition in Aichi, Japan.
■ http://www.h.toyo-ew.co.jp/column/20090401.html |
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Tokio Marine & Nichido
Fire Insurance launched its Mangrove Afforestation Project in 1999 and a total of 5,901 hectares
of mangrove has already been planted as of the end of March 2009. During the
next phase, starting in 2009, the company aims to plant an additional 2,300 hectares
over five years, while expanding the project area to include India. Tokio Marine & Nichido
has also established the Green Gift Project, which offers customers a way to
make their own contributions to mangrove afforestation.
■ http://www.tokiomarine-nichido.co.jp/j0201/pdf/090629.pdf |
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