ECOLO JAPAN
Green Policy Network for Sustainable Society


     
ECOLO Japan's Welcomed List of Green VIPs abroad

      December 21, 2009
     
     ECOLO Japan, the Green group of Japan are always ready to welcome and meet Green delegates
     from all over the planet who visit Japan.
     The following Greens already visited Japan, when ECOLO welcomed and talked with them directly:

     Mike Feinstein 2005.2./ Monica Frassoni 2005.4 / Noel Mamere 2005.4 / Inger Schoerling 2005.9 /
     Per Gahrton 2006.7 / Rebecca Harms 2006.8 / Peg Putt 2007.6 / Jyrki Kasvi 2007.10 /
     Hans-Josef Fell 2008.8 / Charles Berkow 2009.8 / Sylvia Kotting-Uhl 2009.8 / Melanie Mullen 2009.11/



     
ECOLO greatly succeeded in "Melanie Mullen's Japan Tour"
 November 17, 2009
    
  Sponsored by national Ministry of Environment, we invited
  Ms.Melanie Mullen, young, charming and popular Green
  activist from Toronto, Canada.
  Her environmental activities and achievements began already
  when she was in an elementary school.
  In a university days, she planned and carried out a lot of
  eco-projects for the campus and the nearby cities. 
  She also revitalized a desolated old downtown of her home
  Niagara Falls only in a year, collecting citizens to encourage them.

 Estimated such various, meaningful achievements,
 she was nomitated a candidate for provincial council by Green Party of Ontario, as well as elected an
 interim deputy leader of GPO as well.  In 2009, she set up a new ecological business for sustainable
 builiding and architecture.  
 ECOLO Japan invited her as a main guest speaker in 4 different universities around Tokyo, and
 another 5 meeting event, during her one-week stay in Japan, in the middle of November.
 More...


    
ECOLO Japan ended up a series of "Sustainability Seminar"
  September 21, 2009

 For two years, we focused our main activities on the lecuturing event where sustainability and ecology can be convined.  
 We called a lot of participants who had interest in many different perspectives in the field, such as CSR, GNH, anti-globalisation movment like WSF, global poverty, BI (Basic Income), child labor, organic farming, global tax, renewable energy, biodiversity, information disclosure, chemical poisons, sustainable development, ecological patents, etc.
 We will continue to hold such various mixed seminars, but this kind of series we will end up this year.
 From next year, we ECOLO will extend the capacity and range of the seminar, tied up with
 political phases of Japan and the globe, will start new events widely and openly.

 Reports of previous Sustainability Seminars are on the website: 1st / 2nd / 3rd     


    
ECOLO challenged for the National Election 2009
  August 30, 2009
     
 Mr. Masa Kato, co-founder and executive committee member of   ECOLO Japan, challenged for the general election 2009 from the three Million Big City Yokohama district.
  Unfortunately he did not win, but he gained more than 20,000 votes (7.6 %), ahead of the candidate supported by Japan Communist Party (JCP).
  This is the first challenge for ECOLO Japan to the national election,  
so that we were confident of the result,
 We also ensured that we would continue to challenge for the coming nationwide elections from next year too. More...


    
ECOLO launched Campaign for the National Election
    
     January 5, 2009

      A founding and executive committee member launched his own team called "TEAM TAMI"
     (Team of the People) ---- for the coming national election (for Lower House Parliament) 2009.
.     They are calling for reduction of wasteful use of national budget by the current government,
     including usage of tax and subsidies. Instead he claimed using them for promition of renewable
      energy, for social and public sector such as medical care or public education system.

     ECOLO started "Sustainable Seminar" Series in Tokyo   
  November 30, 2008 
     
 To enforce sustainable development in our society, and show young activists how important you should see the world from a global point of view, ECOLO started a successive series of youth seminar, where each time young leading panelists are lecturing and speaking about sustainable policy and vision of global and domestic issue in terms of ecology, social justice, non-violence, human rights and participatory democracy.  More....

      ECOLO is preparing for a New Green Party in Japan

      September 10, 2008

      Currently two big Party-coalitions only rule the Japanese Parliament (Diet). Both of them are not
      sensible nor sympathytic to Green politics at all, instead they keep enforcing global free trade system,
      promoting global financial market economy and try to privatise public sectors more rapidly.
      To convert these political trend, ECOLO set up and call for a new Party vision, strongly against
      "neo-liberalism" policies and establish an alternative politics based on ecology and social justice. 
      More....

     ECOLO attended ”Green Summer University” in Germany
  August 28-31, 2008

  Ms. Miki Konishi, an overseas member of ECOLO Japan
  attended Green Summer University held in Frankfurt Oder,
  Germany. There more than 800 participants from around Europe
  get together, enjoyed holding many sessions and workshops. 
  More....
  
 
    

     ECOLO Japan participated in Global Greens 2008
  May 1-4, 2008

ECOLO Japan participated in Global Greens 2008, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 This was the meeting of Green parties and green political and NGO groups all over the world. This time more than 1,000 participants from 88 countries got together in the Mega-City of Brazil, talking and exchanging their ideas, promoting friendship and discussion.
 There ECOLO Japan proposed the conference documents "21 Points" plan in terms of sustainable climate policy.
 More....     

      Chairperson visited London to join Green Party Events
  April 26-28, 2008
      
  Dr.Shuji Imamoto, the Chair of ECOLO Japan visited London on his
  way to Brazil (participation in Global Greens 2008), where he was   
  officialy invited to Barnet Green Party in the northern part of London.
  Thereafter he visited UK national Green Party office, joined their
  London Mayoral election campaign. More....





    ECOLO Japan starts 2008 Campaign for Energy Efficiency

       December 27, 2007

        ECOLO Japan planned a series of great campaign for the next year 2008.
        where regional camapaign for energy efficiency is included.
        Tthe chairperson says, "in this campaign we try to call for the target that
        CO2 emissions in the capital area of Tokyo should be reduced 30 percent
        by 1990 level.  More.....
    
 
      ECOLO Japan published German Greens Translation

       December 19, 2007

          
        ECOLO Japan translated and published the following two German Greens
        books into Japanese.

        Juergen Trittin "Welt Um Welt : Gerechtigkeit und Globalisierung"
        Buendnis90/Die Gruenen "Die Zukunft ist gruen. Grundsatzprogramm 2002" (Party Program 2002)


   ECOLO Japan evaluated all Candidates for the national
  Election in terms of Environmental Achievements


   July. 27, 2007

    ECOLO Japan tried to evaluate all candidates for the national election for the Upper
    House(Senate) in Japan, held in July 2007, in terms of their enviornmental achiemvents.
    This campaign was very successful and was reported by leading press and big mass
    media as well: More.... 
    


    Japan Young Greens participated in Global Young Greens
   Conference in Nairobi


    January, 16-19. 2007                                         

  Japan Young Greens (JYG), the youth branch of
  "ECOLO Japan" ― visited Nairobi, Kenya in order to
  participate in the Global Greens Conference
  held in 16-19th January, just before opening the World
  Social Forum (WSF).  More....
                                                 


ECOLO Japan's Team visited European Greens
Congress in Geneva

  
October 13-15/2006

The Chairperson of ECOLO Japan (Japan Greens) and the staffs visited Brussels
in Belgium and Switzerland in Geneva in October 2006, in order to participate in
2nd European Greens Congress.
We could exchange with a lot of Green members in Europe, particularly among
young Greens.

  The 2nd Congress for European Green Parties was
  held in Geneva, on 13th and 14th October 2006.
  We participants team from ECOLO Japan were
  always welcomed and could meet many Greens
  from different countries in Europe.
  More....



ECOLO Japan's Team visited Greens in Brussels

October 11th, 2006

  We visited different Greens' offices in Brussels. First,
  we met Belgian Greens ECOLO" office in Brussels.
  There we talked each other for some time, heard the
  report of the local election of Brussels in October.

  This is the first meeting between the original "ECOLO"
  and our "ECOLO" members.
  More....



Grateful Message by Chairperson


Monday, August 14 2006

We ECOLO JAPAN
started only with 15 persons at the beginning of last year 2004, 
butwithin a year, the number of our members reached 200 very rapidy.
We made much effort to hold regular meetings, seminars and workshops each time,
whose participants were mostly 20 to 30 years old, then we got many young
(women) supporters and staffs as well. More....

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