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| Honda, as a part of its social activities, is conducting “Green Renaissance” activities for global nature conservation and is encouraging its factories and offices to harmonize themselves with local communities. Also, we are enthusiastically organizing and cooperating in a variety of environment-related events. |
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| Honda implemented the “Joyful Forest”
Project in the Horchin Desert, within the Autonomous Region of Mongolia in the
People’s Republic of China. Under the project, poplars, pine, acacia, and
elms were planted. |
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Honda has been supporting and participating
in a reforestation project named the “Riverhead Forest (Tone River) Volunteer
Revitalization Project.” This project for the conservation and revitalization
of nature through reforestation is being undertaken by the CCC Creative Plant’s
Gunma Project. |
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For more than 20 yearsósince 1981óHonda
has been holding a fuel economy competition, in which participants compete on
“how many kilometers they can drive using only one liter of gasoline.” |
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| Children participating in an “Eco Wagon
Expeditionary Party,” which was held at Twin Link Motegi to provide participants
with an opportunity to be in contact with nature throughout the four seasons. |
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Honda supports its employees in participating
in the research activities of international organizations involved in sustainable
development and the preservation of natural resources and cultural heritage. |
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At Honda’s factories and offices throughout Japan, employees cooperate with local people to regularly conduct local cleaning activities. Such activities are conducted also at Honda’s business sites in foreign countries. |
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Honda has been conducting nature conservation activities
to pass on the richness of nature to the next generation under the auspices of
its Green Renaissance Office. Specifically, support is given to organizations
engaged in nature conservation, such as reforestation, as well as to volunteer
activities conducted by its employees and OBs. For example, the Green Renaissance
Office gives support to the Desert Afforestation Volunteers’ Association,
an NPO that carries out a model afforestation and agricultural project that contributes
to preventing desertification through sand-arresting afforestation in the Horchin
Desert of the Autonomous Region of Mongolia in the People’s Republic of China.
The office started this “Joyful Forest Project” as a joint project with
the Association and the local community in fiscal 2000.
The office also provides children, who will be the major players
of the next generation, with opportunities to have real contact with nature. For
example, it organized “Eco Wagon,” a program that enables children to experience
and study nature. Approximately 24,000 children participated in the program in
total as of the end of September 2002. Also, the office established a nature observation
course named “Hello Woods” in a natural forest located within Twin Link
Motegi in Tochigi Prefecture, and organized an “Eco Wagon Expeditionary Party”
to provide participants with an opportunity to be in direct contact with nature.
Through these activities, Honda is improving its environmental educational programs.
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Honda, since its foundation, has been conducting its corporate
activities attributing importance to “symbiosis with local communities,”
which means not to cause any problems for local people, to meet as many of their
expectations as possible, and to become integrated in local communities as a corporate
citizen. Based on these ideas, Honda’s factories and offices are conducting
a variety of cleaning and nature conservation activities.
For example, at its factories and offices throughout Japan, cleaning activities have long been conducted
in cooperation with local people to regularly clean local rivers and roads. |
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