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| Green Diamonds highlights the ongoing
efforts of Mitsubishi companies to foster a greener,
more sustainable planet
and brighter, more vibrant communities through wide-ranging environmental and
social initiatives. |
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| Mitsubishi Estate became the first company in the world to
integrate intelligent LED lighting and radiant air conditioning
systems when it installed them in Ecozzeria’s¹ “Next
Generation Office Experiment Lab” in the Shin-Marunouchi
Building. The LED system optimizes lighting levels for
individual work areas while the radiant air conditioning
eliminates uncomfortable temperature variations. While
providing a comfortable working environment, the integrated
system realizes a significant 30 percent saving in energy
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of the Environment Prize” in
the Cabinet Office-sponsored
10th annual Merit Awards
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Schematic diagram of the Technology Demonstration Office
Note 1: A facility established on the 10th floor of Mitsubishi Estate’s Shin-Marunouchi Building
in May 2007 as a environmental strategy monitoring center for the OMY (Otemachi,
Marunouchi, Yurakucho) district in central Tokyo.
Note 2: Awards granted in recognition of noteworthy successes in, and significant contributions
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| On October 1, 2012, Mitsubishi Corporation (MC)
opened its CSR Station “MC Forest” at its head office in
Marunouchi, Tokyo. The first floor showcases examples
of MC’s wide variety of CSR and environmental initiatives
around the world. On the second floor, visitors can
learn about the company’s business activities via an
interactive table monitor projecting information onto a
large video screen. They can also explore the company’s history by using digital tablets which provide enhanced content for the wall display. In addition to exhibits promoting the |
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Tropical Forest Regeneration Experimental
Project and the Global Coral Reef
Conservation Project, MC is currently working with social
and environmental NGOs and NPOs to organize events
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| The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is actively engaged
as a project finance lender in a number of renewable energy
projects in North America, Europe and other regions. In
the wind power sector, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
acted as finance arranger on the 52.5MW Hallett 5 wind
farm project in Australia. In the solar power sector, the bank
acted as mandated lead arranger for the 100MW Shams1
concentrated solar power project in Abu Dhabi which
became the first large-scale renewable independent power
producer in the Middle East. Involvement in these and other
projects has resulted in the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
(together with group company Union Bank in the United
States) being ranked as the world’s largest provider of
project finance debt for renewable energy projects in 2011¹. |
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| Shams 1: Solar power project in Abu Dhabi |
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| The 2012 Mitsubishi Chemical Junior Design Award winners
were announced in October 2012. Specially supported
by Mitsubishi Chemical, the awards are presented to
outstanding graduation projects submitted to a panel of
experts by students who graduated in March 2012 from
universities and art schools aiming to become leading
designers in the future. In this competition, a total of 260
ambitious projects were submitted by design majors from
all over Japan and after a stringent judging process
14 award-winning works were selected. The Grand Prize was awarded to Haruka Suzuki for her work “The Collection
of Natural Colors.” This profoundly significant collection of
swatch books captivates the viewer with the pure beauty of
the colors, and clearly reveals the designer’s zealous spirit
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Grand Prize: The Collection of Natural Colors
by Haruka Suzuki, BA, Musashino Art University
There are many Japanese words for colors, but most came
into use in the Heian Period (794-1185), and thus are
insufficient to express the entire spectrum of colors that are
specifically Japanese in nature. Searching out the origins
of Japanese color words shows that they come from the
natural dyes and pigments of those times. Therefore, I fixed
the natural dye colors and, as happened in ancient times,
once more gave a color name to each. Using these, I made
100 color sample books. I hope those viewing the books will
feel the rich colors that are the basis for our Japanese color
sensitivities. |
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Excellence Prize:
Sunset in Between Letters
by Tomoyuki Koseko,
MA, Musashino Art University
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Excellence Prize:
Record of Future Insects
by Makiko Nagao,
BA, Musashino Art University
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Mitsubishi Chemical Prize:
foot (Visualization of sound
information in the platform)
by Masahito Uchino,
BHED, Toyo University |
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