CONTENTSSocial ActivitiesGreen Renaissance Activities

In the area of social activities, we are promoting global nature conservation activities facilitated by the Green Renaissance Office, and our business sites are conducting cooperative activities with local communities. Also, through various media, including the Internet and printed brochures, and by holding related events, we are disseminating diverse environmental information to the society at large.

Honda supports activities to protect and grow riverhead forests. In regions where our factories and offices are located, we support reforestation activities in which our associates participate as volunteers.
• Honda’s Saitama Factory has been supporting and participating in a reforestation project called the Riverhead Forest (Tone River) Revitalization Project by Volunteers. This event, which preserves and revitalizes nature through forestation, is held by the CCC Creative Plant’s Gunma Project at the source of the Tone River and in the upper reaches of the Minakami-Naramata Dam. In fiscal 2004, Honda associates and retirees volunteered to help thin out* trees in June.
• The Kumamoto Factory started forestation activities on a mountain in Aso town, supporting the activities of the Aso Green Stock Foundation conducted at the riverhead of the Shira River. In fiscal 2004, Honda associates and retirees volunteered to participate in planting in April and mowing in September.
• The Hamamatsu Factory started forestation activities on a mountain in Misakubo town, supporting the activities of Plenteer Forest, a nonprofit organization. In fiscal 2004, Honda associates and retirees volunteered to participate in planting in May and November.
• In March 2005, in the district where our head office building is located, we decided to start activities to conserve the forest owned by Kosuge village, located in the riverhead of the Tama River. In fiscal 2005, Honda associates will start planting activities as volunteers.

The Joyful Forest Project was started in 2000 to help prevent rapid desertification through sand-arresting afforestation in the Horchin Desert in the Autonomous Region of Mongolia in the People’s Republic of China. Since its start, Honda has been giving financial support and dispatching volunteers to the project as well as participating in the formulation of specific projects.
In fiscal 2004, volunteer afforestation projects were held in May and September with a lot of Honda associates and retirees participating. Thanks to these projects, reforestation is steadily under way on the site.
From February to March 2005, photo exhibitions for the Joyful Forest were held at the Honda Welcome Plaza on the first floor of the Aoyama Head Office building as well as at Honda’s Wako Building and other plants. The display showed photos of the desert before afforestation, the gradual greening of the site during the afforestation process, and the actual afforestation activities by the volunteers. We will continue to implement these projects and photo exhibitions as part of our activities to enlighten our associates.

The Eco Wagon is a program that is mainly designed for children to help them experience and study nature. Honda holds this event in cooperation with Honda retirees. The Eco Wagon visits schools in a Honda wagon loaded with natural materials obtained from the sea and mountains. In fiscal 2004, approximately 19,000 people participated in the program held in the areas surrounding Honda’s sites (Tokyo, Saitama, Suzuka, Hamamatsu, Kumamoto, and Tochigi). Participants were given the opportunity to actually touch materials, such as wood from thinning of forest, and children in particular were given the chance to improve their awareness of nature. Teachers and children participating in the program stated their desire to participate in this program again in the future. The Eco Wagon program will be implemented mainly for teachers and children of schools located in the neighborhood of Honda’s factories.

Locations	Frequency of Event	Number of Participants (Total)
Saitama area	116 times	10,719
Suzuka area	64 times	3,855
Hamamatsu area	54 times	4,680
Kumamoto area	4 times	265
Tochigi area	1 times	59

Honda has exhibited its various low emission vehicles at environment-related events held mainly by the national and local governments and has given support to environment-related seminars held at such fairs. In fiscal 2004, we exhibited our vehicles at or gave support to a total of 33 environment-related events.

Every Honda business site has been implementing environmental exhibitions, clean-up activities, and taking part in local environmental events as a corporate commitment toward cooperating with local communities. In fiscal 2004, continuing from the previous fiscal year, we conducted various activities to attain the objectives of “cooperative activities in closer harmony with local communities” and “enhancement of the environmental morale of associates.” Honda associates joined in 50 local environmental events, in which a total of approximately 200,000 people participated. The environmental exhibitions held by Honda business sites, in which each site demonstrated its unique commitment towards cooperation with their local communities, attracted an increasing number of exhibitors and participants from local communities. Thus, Honda’s cooperative activities have certainly taken root in local communities.

In fiscal 2004, the Philanthropy Office offered support to five organizations engaged in environment-related social activities.

Honda conducts various other social activities besides environment-related ones.