Kiichiro Narita (chaperon) [participant:Ritsuya Kishida]
*Group name
Oizumi Junior High School Attached to Tokyo Gakugei University
*Country/Region
Tokyo, Japan
*Type of Group
School
*Number of total members of your group/project
405 junior high school students (and their families)
*Number of regular participants in activities
About 50 persons (About 20 households)
*Characteristic of members
With the student council, the central committee, and the environment division at the core, we take part in learning and activities related to the environment and energy conservation. Teachers are committed to being supporters and not doers themselves.
*Theme(s) of your group/project
*Energy Issues
*Missions and activities of your group/project
While global environmental issues only seem to aggravate at both school and home, we strive to prevent global warming and make a global contribution and social commitment to sustainable development. We try to nurture among our students a concrete and sustainable awareness as well as a willingness to take part in activities toward the environment and energy conservation.
*Characteristics of the group/project activities
We are searching for ways to pass on the benefits of energy conservation, such as the trimmed costs, to improve the living conditions of our students. Our goal is to establish a concrete and scientific approach to energy conservation by analyzing data accumulated by the use of energy conservation navigation at school and home.
*Most importnat way of thinking of your group/project for environment
With the student council, the central committee, and the environment division at the core, students themselves highly value independence, integration, and tolerance.
*What kind of group/project do you want to exchange for imformation and experience with?
We would like to interact with oversea environmental and energy conservation groups or projects in which students are proactive.
*Short message for exchange with other group/project
We would like to exchange information daily as well as at annual international events such as the Junior United Nations Eco-Workshop (Children's World Summit for the Environment). Information on local environmental and energy conservation activities could be shared through the internet, blogs, and emails.
*Impression of Children's World Summit for the Environment 2005 Aichi
We were obviously pleased with the fine showings by our very own Ritsuya Kishida. We were also moved greatly by the encounters between the Indian boy and his mother as well as between the Nicaraguan girl and her supporter (a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer) at the lodgings and event sites. There was a powerful realization of the importance of face to face interaction over merely seeing international exchanges on TV and newspapers. We also learned the importance of continuing to take part in concrete environmental and energy conservation activities, and having tangible results in order to interact and exchange thoughts with others. Upon feeling the pressing need to learn the English language, I hope that many Japanese children, including myself, will be able to acquire the ability to communicate well in English.
*Others
I first became interested through collecting milk cartons for recycling and through the research of convenient stores which was designed to learn the relations between the environment and consumption.
*Contact person
Kiichiro Narita (Vice Principal)
*Contact Address
Seito-kai, Chûo-Iiinkai, Kankyo-bu
Oizumi Junior High School, attached to Tokyo Gagugei University
5-22-1 Higashi Oizumi, Nerima-ku, Tokyo 178-0063 Japan
Knarita@u-gakugei.ac.jp
*URL of Web site of your group/project
http://www.jh.oizumi.u-gakugei.ac.jp/
