Yuki Taira(participant)
*Group name
A Project on Life and Environment
*Country/Region
Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
*Type of Group
Home
*Number of total members of your group/project
6 persons
*Number of regular participants in activities
6 persons
*Characteristic of members
We live in a city facing the ocean with a population of 400,000 people. In the summertime,we enjoy swimming in the sea and hiking in the mountains.Our family always tries to live an earth friendly life, for example, by using bicycles instead of cars as a means of transportation.
*Theme(s) of your group/project
*Nature Conservation, *Urban Issues, *Energy Issues
*Missions and activities of your group/project
The mission of our project is to preserve the environment of our neighbors and community, and to live an eco-friendly life.
*Characteristics of the group/project activities
Our activities are based on daily life. When we go out to the sea or the mountains we bring back all the garbage. As mentioned earlier, we travel by bicycles as much as possible. We use staircases rather than taking the elevator. All these are done to protect our environment.
*Most importnat way of thinking of your group/project for environment
To hand down our beautiful planet to our descendants. This is the main objective of our project.
*What kind of group/project do you want to exchange for imformation and experience with?
We would like to exchange information with groups who are working on similar topics to ours, such as environment protection, energy issues, and urban issues.
*Short message for exchange with other group/project
We, human beings, are all responsible for maintaining our planet clean and beautiful.As expressed in the Japanese word "Mottainai", we should take good care of things and materials surrounding us. If all the people in this world had the "Mottainai" spirit in their mind, we would surely be able to keep our earth even more beautiful in the future.
*Impression of Children's World Summit for the Environment 2005 Aichi
It was our first time to attend a huge event where people around the world gathered. Days flew by quickly, while we enjoyed being friends with participants from countries that we didn't even know in the past. Although it was a bit tough for us to express our own thoughts and feelings in English, we found ourselves inspired to attend any future similar events.
*Others
We realized how blessed we are to live a descent life after learning about children's life in the
developing countries. We would like to keep on thinking what we can do as people living in the
developed society, and how we can preserve the environment.
*Contact person
Atsushi Taira
*Contact Address
2785-11 Mure, Mure-cho, Takamatsu-city, Kagawa 761-0121 Japan
taira@ed.kagawa-u.ac.jp
