Chiharu Tachi (participant)
*Group name
Time Machine Club
*Country/Region
Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
*Type of Group
Community
*Number of total members of your group/project
20 persons
*Number of regular participants in activities
10 persons
*Characteristic of members
All of our group members are interested in ecology and desire to take part in related activities. We have meetings and share our ideas to find out what kind of activities could be environmental friendly.
*Theme(s) of your group/project
*Nature Conservation
*Missions and activities of your group/project
During the summer, we have contact with the elderly people in the area and learn age-old wisdom from them. We also conduct surveys on creatures living in the nearby river. On the other hand, we go camping in the hometown mountains during the winter to carry out some research on the nature.
*Characteristics of the group/project activities
With the aim of learning environmental issues through contact with nature, children from 1st to 9th grade form groups with junior high school students being the group leaders, and carry out their activities.
*Most importnat way of thinking of your group/project for environment
We keep the nature blessings in mind in our daily lives, take care of them, and conduct feasible activities.
*What kind of group/project do you want to exchange for imformation and experience with?
We would like to know what kind of community-based ecology activities there are and some advice if any from other groups.
*Short message for exchange with other group/project
When doing ecology cooking or cooking at camp sites, we always try not to produce a lot of garbage. We later measure the amount of raw garbage and investigate what kind of trash emerges. Through these activities, we found out that quite a lot of garbage is produced from cooking. It is also advisable to check how much waste we produce from ordinary cooking.
*Impression of Children's World Summit for the Environment 2005 Aichi
It really moved me to see so much people from different countries gathering in one place. Unfortunately I was not able to communicate well due to my limited English. Yet, through discussions in our action group, I felt that we all share a common feeling and passion in taking care of our environment regardless of our nationalities.
*Others
We hope to expand our environmental activities by meeting and interacting with many people as possible.
*Contact person
Haruko Tachi
*Contact Address
3-14-11 Higashiyama, Kanazawa-city, Ishikawa 920-0831 Japan
harucco@topaz.ocn.ne.jp
