Eco Life Fair 2008

A solar cook made of cardboard

Do the solar cook look familiar to you? It is a reuse material from the umbrella. Wow! So innovative

A very interesting Obasan.

Please look at her cap, there is a fan powered by the solar panel on the top. Good for hot summer

Eco Life Fair 2008

The children in the city has less chance to play with the toys made from natural wood. It is a good campaign to promote the natural toys. In Japan, there is a lot of replanted forest lack of proper maintainance and being left as the price is higher than the imported woods. There is still a large area of trees need to be cut down for replantation, but due to the lack of demand, and man power for the wood industry, it is now left with no proper maintainance and now become a problem for erosion. They called the poor forest as "Green desert".

GEIC is promoting the collection of message for the G8 meeting.

Mottainai Ba Chan is a very popular character in asking the Japanese people to reduce wastage.

A solar cook

Eco Life Fair 2008

The stage of Eco Life Fair

The electric is generated using the solar power

It was a live radio program. DJ and the Mr Kamoshita, the Minister of Environment of Japan

A lot of audiences

Eco Life Fair 2008

Cycling to generate the electric from Sagawa transportation

The new energy saving glass can help to save heating and cooling cost

Eco effort from Pocari Sweat, a energy drink. By redesigned the bottle, it is much lighter and energy saving.

Stop global warming to save the polar bear. The recycling of Polyestrene will help to save the earth.

Eco declaration from the school children

A cute Eco character

Furosiki workshop- teaching the Japanese about their own tradition to wrap the things using cloth instead of plastic beg

The character from ETC. The Electronic toll company that promote eco-driving

Eco Life Fair 2008 Shibuya Japan

The entrance of Eco Life Fair in front of NHK at Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was held two days on 6 & 7 June 2008. June is the Environmental Month of Japan
Record your own "environmental declaration"

Fuel Cell vehicle

Stop Global Warming message from Team -6%

The Launching of COOL BIZ PLUS 2008

The launching of latest Cool Biz Plus 2008 had been organized at Tokyo Mid Town. Compare to the previous Cool Biz and Uchi-Eco campaign, this year campaign is promoting something more than Cool Biz itself and called it "Plus". The Plus could be any of the environmental friendly actions, such as using the eco-beg when buying things, bring own water bottle, bring "My Hashi" (chopstick) etc. The campaign was launched by the Mr Kamoshita, current Minister of Environment of Japan. Mr Kamoshita was wearing the Cool Biz style by removing the necktie. Tokyo was still cool this year in the early June.