November 2006
Cover Story
Clever ways to use subsidies and realize environmental measures
Trend: Do not miss the opportunities to get subsidies available for various products - from industrial complexes to chewing gum removers
Energy-saving: Assessment of energy-saving effects is the first step in a successful procedure, which can be enforced with a good appeal in application and sound explanation in the ex post facto report
New energy: Good negotiation tactics can move the government office to your side and win subsidy money that can add more value to the products
Distribution: Good cooperation between the shipper and distributor is the key to succeed without getting lost in the complicated system
Data: Do not miss these less-known subsidies including the new schemes targeting smaller businesses
Report
Recycle
Oil price hike expands demands for recycled plastics and reuse of products to a full-scales
Learn about Technologies
First Step in Technology
[Hybrid system] Now ready to be used in trains, ships and construction machinery, hybrid systems support energy conservation of the transportation sector
Products
[Shinkansen N700 series] Streamlined bodies with reduced air resistance can cut energy consumption by 19%
Natural Energy
[Bio diesel] Test drives continue to reveal problems for using waste food oil in co-generation systems
Fuel Cell
[SOFC combined power generation] Waste gas from the fuel cell can run a turbine to realize nearly 70% generating efficiency
“Honor Students” in Recycling
[End-of-life automobiles] Specific gravity separator helps 1-billion-yen annual sales by recovering parts and fuels
Learn about Environmental Laws
Easy-to-Understand Environmental Law
[Critical eye on the Automobile Recycling Law Part 2] Is the ASR recycling going well?
How to Read the Waste Disposal Law Part 10
Penalties
EU Regulations to Challenge Japanese Corporations Part 5
TC111 (Technical Committee)
Environmental Laws Q & A
How do they decide the number of stars for the new energy-saving labels effective in October?
This Month’s Environmental Law
New standards are set for the top-runner system to bring about energy-saving competition based on actual use
Trend and News
Environmental Risk
Sakhalin II is not the only suspended project that shows importance of environmental preservation and public consensus
Recycling
AEON decides to start charging for the plastic shopping bags in the beginning of 2007 to prepare for the nearing promulgation of the Revised Law for Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging
Preventing Global Warming
Tokyo and Osaka are to follow Nagoya to try out emission right trading among private sectors
CSR
After a customer develops chemical sensitivity syndrome from using an electric heater, Ito-Yokado gets a court order to pay compensation as a seller
Eco Car
Honda undergoes full model change to downsize the fuel cells to the size of an engine
Global Warming
Survey for 2,000 companies worldwide on global warming measures reveals increased interest in CDM
Natural Energy
Wind farm plan in Izumo finds solution for the landscape issue but still struggles to reach consensus
Environmental Awareness
Sixty percent of citizens consider that companies have responsibility for industrial waste treatment
Environmental Destruction
Dam upstream accelerates coastal erosion, wiping out sand dunes from the Sea of Enshu
CSR Frontline
SRI may take off in Japan soon while movement for promotion expands both at home and abroad
The youth should learn business before CSR, career development advisers say
Climate Change Policies
Q and A to understand climate change policies
Q: Why did the base-year emission change?
A: Allocation increased as a result of recalculation
Learn about Environmental Issues
Truth and False of Environmental Science
[Aluminum] Is it still true that aluminum is a cause of dementia?
Threats Waiting around the Corner
A “head of a beauty” on the sea bottom accuses us of the waste damping, saying that the ocean has become a graveyard of waste and taking the UN into starting measures
Junko Edahiro’s Eye-opening Facts on Environmental Terms in English
[biofuel]
Column
Kankan Gakugaku (Active Argument over Environmental Issues)
Masao Kosuge, director of Asahiyama Zoo
Secret Tips for Environmental Management
Token CSR will not change anything
Cuisines of Japan
Ancient knowledge to use nuts wisely
Honest Opinions by the “Eco-Moms”
Food safety
Artisanship in repairing
Binoculars (Cosmos)
The reality of NPOs
[OISCA-International] Collaboration with Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance increases publicity and expands its fields to 14 countries
Repot
Inside-Out
[Faults of “no-one-left-behind policy” Part 1] First lawsuit to seek liability of national government on asbestos cases starts at the Sennan District of Osaka
From BusinessWeek
Global warming issues debated hot in the U.S. Congress
WorldWatch Institute
Accelerated global warming is to be blamed for the intensified damage of Katrina and loss of 1,800 lives
ECO Seminar
How to Make the Best Use of ISO
[Dentsu] Environmental slogan competition raises awareness of employees
Quick Guide to Environmental Key Words
“CSR”
World Trend
From EU
Dutch new system with 900,000-yen tax break for hybrid cars may become an EU standard
From UK
While avoiding risk is difficult for emission right trading, rights for CDM and JI are priced around 20 Euro
From USA
Ethanol is used in the Indy 500 to promote its high efficiency to the world
From Germany
Reinforcement of workforce and reduction of resource costs are the keys to realize the goal to double the resource productivity by 2020
From China
Extended limit for automobile use is to reduce the number of scrapping and bring more business opportunities to parts manufactures
