The document discusses Reitaku University's approach to environmental conservation and sustainability. The university aims to (1) provide an educational environment that is in harmony with nature, (2) live sustainably with nature, and (3) contribute to the local community. It highlights various initiatives like building designs that reduce CO2 emissions, solar power systems, and campus beautification projects. Students and faculty work to preserve the forested areas on campus and study the native plants.

1. Environmental Problems
and
Reitaku University
German Course
Narumi HOSODA
Akira SAKURAOKA
Translated into English
English for Communication
Rumi NAKAMURA

2. The Campus Harmonized
with Nature
Basic Policies of Environment
Conservation
in Reitaku
1. To provide people with relieved,
educational and virtuous influence.
2. To try to live together with people and
nature.
3. To be in harmony with people and nature.
4. To make contributions to the regional

4. What is ISO26000?
 International standard of social
responsibility.
 Guidance document -Advice or hints on
social responsibility-.
 Promotes an organizational contribution to
sustainable development.
 Encourages the organization to comply
with the law.

5. ISO26000 in Reitaku
 Introduced in 2010.
 Train people who have intellect and virtue
and contributes social development and
relief, peace and happiness.
 Realize social responsibility through the
original principles of the university.
 Take the initiative in other universities in
Japan.

6. Activities in Reitaku
1. Promote education from student’s stand
point and help them grow up.
2. Devote ourselves to administrative
business and correspondence for
students.
3. Attempt to reduce the greenhouse effect
gas.
4. Try to beautify and preserve the
environment.
5. Practice sustainable regional community
contribution.

8. Inventions for
CO2 Reduction
 New School Building “ASUNARO”
1) Natural tempereture control.
2) Heat insulation effect with paired windowpanes.
3) Air conditioner with high efficiency.
4) Natural ventilation.
5) Designed to set up solar panels.
 Preventive measure for electric supply and
demand in the summer time.

9. Eco-Action
in Hiroike Gakuen
 Making the rooftop a garden and using terrestrial heat to wark air
conditioners in Reitaku Open College.
Summer / Cool Winter / Warm
Ground heat is at a constant
temperature through the year
 Implementing a solar power system in new building of Reitaku
Kindergarten.
Solar power generation system
• Manage lighting of childcare room or play room with solar panel on the
rooftop.
Indoor environment control system using the OM solar
• By using solar heat, send solar heat to the underneath of floor in
wintertime and take the nighttime in summertime.

10. Thanks to your cooperation,
We reduced electricity consumption
by 36% compared to the previous year . Gut
gemacht !!
We achieved the first target
stage of CO2 reduction
(2006 through 2010);
-we even reduced 5% compared
with 2006.

12. KBP
（Environment Beautification
Project）
Manners improvement
campaign.
Manners senryu.
Create posters on
trashcans.

13. Clean Campaign

14. Learning from
Reitaku Forest Association
 Voluntary association of
environmental preservation.
 Periodical observations to
various plants on campus.

15. Question
Do you know
how many kinds of
and
how many trees
there are in Hiroike Gakuen?

16. Answer

17. Zoning Map
Reaching 仁草木
Protect the precious nature environments
Bring up mind to study nature
Protection woods
Viewable woods
Available woods
Park area

18. Summary
 We don’t use the latest technologies or
large-scale activities to be environmental
friendly in Reitaku University. Rather
based on the founder’s principles, we try
to coexist with nature and lean that people
are a part of the nature. That is the way
we face the environmental problems.