Environmental Education

To Transform Environmental Awareness and Shape the Way We Live Next

At Ishizaka Inc., we are working to foster a new generation that can create a sustainable society by raising environmental awareness through environmental education. Through collaboration with local governments, schools, companies, and community groups, we provide educational experiences that utilize real industrial waste and circulate resources.
In order to nurture a society that values resources and understands environmental issues, we offer a variety of programs to meet different needs.

 

Solutions Provided by Ishizaka Inc.

A Wide Range of Hands-On Programs

We provide opportunities to learn about the circulation of resources and satoyama ecosystems, and to explore together ideas for designing the next way of living.
To welcome a wide range of participants—including companies and organizations, schools, individuals, and international visitors—we offer a diverse selection of hands-on and participatory programs.

Tour of the Industrial Waste Intermediate Treatment Plant

Satoyama Tour

Lecture on Regeneration and Circulation

Hub for Environmental Education

Resource Recycling Plant

This all-weather resource recycling plant boasts a world-class waste reduction and recycling rate of 98%. Through study tours, we share the realities of waste treatment as well as the technologies and know-how of resource regeneration that Ishizaka Inc. has cultivated over many years, conveying the concept of Zero Waste Design—a system that prevents waste from becoming waste—to a wide range of participants.

Santome Konjakumura

It is the only site in Saitama Prefecture certified as a “Place for Nature-Based Experiences”, and is visited by educators and students from a wide range of educational institutions, from kindergartens to universities.

* “Place for Nature-Based Experiences” refers to a certification system under which facilities or land provided by companies, NPOs, and other organizations as venues for nature-based and social experiential activities are officially recognized by prefectural governors and other authorities.

Oak Woods Environmental School

Oak Woods Environmental School aims to create opportunities for fostering values such as coexistence with nature and respect for diversity.
Rather than taking a one-way, instructor-led approach, we offer participatory learning in which participants actively think, discover, and explore for themselves.
Learning opportunities span a wide range of fields, from studying biodiversity and the relationship between nature and people in satoyama landscapes to observing recycling processes up close at waste treatment facilities.
We offer programs tailored to your needs, serving a wide range of groups—from corporate organizations to educational institutions.

Ishizaka Organic Farm

At our company-owned farm, we carry on the region’s traditional circular farming method known as “Musashino Leaf Compost Farming” (recognized as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System), cultivating locally rooted open-pollinated vegetable varieties without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
At “ReDAICHI,” the experiential farm located on the premises, visitors can gain hands-on experience with circular agriculture starting from soil preparation, while learning about traditional techniques that harmonize with nature and the unique characteristics of diverse open-pollinated vegetables.

Collaboration

Promotion of Environmental Education

In 2017, as part of an environmental education promotion initiative utilizing the “Place for Nature-Based Experiences,” we established the “Place for Nature-Based Experiences” Research Organization, a consortium composed of certified organizations.

Promotion and Awareness of Experiential Environmental Education “Place for Nature-Based Experiences” Research Organization

In August 2017, the “Place for Nature-Based Experiences” Research Organization was established (Chair: Noriko Ishizaka).In October of the same year, an agreement was concluded with the Ministry of the Environment with the aim of enhancing and expanding the “Place for Nature-Based Experiences.”
Since 2018, as a collaborative initiative, the organization has been conducting training programs to develop leaders for environmental education and learning—such as teachers and educational staff—as well as promoting the dissemination of experiential environmental education within local governments.

Green Blue Education Forum

Centered around the “Place for Nature-Based Experiences” Research Organization, we organize an executive committee and, in co-hosting with the Ministry of the Environment, hold the Green Blue Education Forum, which supports perspectives and ideas essential for building a sustainable society.
The forum aims to create opportunities for younger generations to reflect on the natural environment they wish to pass on to the future, to proactively identify challenges, and to take action, while also discovering and nurturing leaders who will play active roles in changing the world.