DENSO YOUTH for EARTH Action -New Earthlings Project-

Alumni-2010

Atsushi Motohashi

Year of Participation	2010
Country of residence	Japan
Gender	Male
Name	Atsushi Motohashi (Andy)

Outline of Action Plan (AP)

Title	Social Action through Work
Type of AP（Workshop and seminar, etc.）	Seminar
Activities	In response to the question “Don’t we conduct the social contribution activities if not belonging to NPO/NGO? ”, company and NPO/NGO staff exchanges opinions on relation between in day to day work and social action.
Cooperators	Working with my junior fellow and Career Support Center of Kyoto University
Period and Venue	The first seminar：30 June 2011, Kyoto University
Period and Venue	The second seminar：14 July 2011, Kyoto University
Conducted with whom	Students of Kyoto University
Number of participants	28 participants(First seminar)
Report of AP	Please see the web site of Kyoto University （http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/news_data/h/h14/news4/2011/110630_1.htm）

Learning from DYEA

I learned the social action had lots of variability through DYEA. I have felt one of environmental activities not only the activity of NPO which purify water in Lake Biwa, but also engineers who develop energy-efficient engine in DENSO. It is difficult for us to make extra time to conduct environmental activities. However, each of us becomes more aware of environment, and I learned we could sustainably realize social actions through my work.

Current Situation（Environmental activities besides your AP and changes in attitude from DYEA）

I reconsidered the environmental activities were special works for NGO/NPO through DYEA. Now, I am working in government-affiliated financial institution, aiming at contributing to society through my work. Thanks to participants in Asian countries that I have ever seen in DYEA, I expanded my mind on framework of social problems from home to abroad. I would like to build an environmentally-friendly system for global companies through financial technologies in the future.

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Soravich Sontijirawong

Year of Participation	2010
Country of residence	Thailand
Gender	Male
Name	Soravich Sontijirawong (Jojo)

Learning from DYEA

Sustainable is a major issue in today's world. Some realize, some not. From DYEA, I learned that to achive our goal, it's never easy. With only us, it couldn't happen. Many characters take part in the story and together, we all have to cooperate. What is most important is to start. With so start, it means nothing. Even with a small start like influences on your family members or friends for something, to me it'S good enough. I never foget this memorable quote from DYEA, to "Start small, but aims high".

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Yuen Sean Lam

Year of Participation	2010
Country of residence	Singapore
Gender	Male
Name	Yuen Sean Lam (Sean)

Outline of Action Plan (AP)

Title	Promotion of Household Vermicomposting in Singapore
Activities	Design worm-composting bin suitable for typical Singaporean household. Conduct workshops to promote vermicomposting in Singapore.
Cooperators	Ground-Up Initiatives (GUI), a local NGO
Period and Venue	Dec 2010 – Present, Bottle Tree Park, Singapore
Conducted with whom	Members and volunteers of GUI, and visitors of Bottle Tree Park
Number of participants	10-50 people
Achievement /impression	Currently working hand-in-hand with GUI on several composting-related projects. The founder, Mr. Tay Lai Hock, is kind in offering the space, logistics and skilled personnel at the headquarters in the Bottle Tree Park. I was one of the facilitators for Project Greenbins (a collaboration with the NUS Environmental Science and Engineering Students Club), which allowed students to design and build bins and infrastructure of a composting site, as well as to develop educational materials to promote waste-composting to the public. I have also conducted both formal and informal composting workshops to the public, especially on Earth Day Singapore 2011. I was blessed to meet Mr. Solvere Lim (an inventor), and together with a team from GUI, we are now prototyping vermicomposting systems for both household and commercial purposes. After which, we may put together an integrated waste system that is in tuned with the organic farming efforts of GUI.

Learning from DYEA

DYEA 2010 gave me strong impetus in improving myself and contributing back to the society through my AP. I was inspired by the great people in this program, who had opened my eyes to see the many wonderful things to be achieved in my lifetime.

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Mary Cherwyn Castro

Year of Participation	2010
Country of residence	Philippines
Gender	Female
Name	Mary Cherwyn Castro (Mitzie)

Outline of Action Plan (AP)

Title	Chemical Waste Management
Activities	Waste Segregation Scheme and Information on Material Data Safety Sheet of Different Chemicals
Cooperators	UP One Earth
Period and Venue	January '2011, Chemistry Laboratories
Conducted with whom	Science Students
Number of participants	Over 100 people
Achievement /impression	The program was launched together with the Environment Week that was sponsored by UP One Earth. There was an online campaign and seminar on correct disposal of chemical waste. The students were made aware of safety precautions and handling of various chemicals. The photo attached is the whole week program where the Chemical Segregation program was included.

Learning from DYEA

DYEA inspired me to love and feel the environment so I can whole heartedly help in preserving it. I learned that cooperation with other groups or people can make every project successful; and that is very true. We are not alone in our quest to bring back the beauty of nature so we must ask help from others to make every move possible and lighter.

Current Situation（Environmental activities besides your AP and changes in attitude from DYEA）

I joined the planning and brainstorming for the activity as a volunteer.

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Amirul Asraf Bin Tumin

Year of Participation	2010
Country of residence	Malaysia
Gender	Male
Name	Amirul Asraf Bin Tumin (Acap)

Learning from DYEA

Very helpful in giving guidelines for my future action plan and DYEA gave me more opportunity to participate in environmental program in my country.

Current Situation（Environmental activities besides your AP and changes in attitude from DYEA）

Volunteer：
Facilitator for Denso Youth for Earth 2011 Local Program in Malaysia, and also become a facilitator for another program called "Association of Asian Agriculture College and University study tour in Malaysia" where the program expose the trend in Malaysian agriculture and environment to foreign students

Others：
The Faculty of Agriculture in my university ask me to organize The 3rd International Agriculture Students Symposium which will cover the topic of "agriculture and environment" on 2012.

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Nguyen Thi Phuong Linh

Year of Participation	2010
Country of residence	Vietnam
Gender	Female
Name	Nguyen Thi Phuong Linh (Linh)

Outline of Action Plan (AP)

Title	EPAC (Evoke personality, accelerate change)
Activities	My former workplace, the American Center Hanoi, is a culture promoting center which holds lots of public events like Debate club, Speaker program, Exibition, … It greets nearly 3000 patrons a month, mostly youngsters. Therefore, my AP focused on integrating the environmental issues in these events. In my time of working here, I have joined, scheduled and assisted quite a few environmental events with my collegues. Some succussesful events can be recalled as: the English writing contest on environment and the environmental month of April 2011. During April, we hosted the Speaker Program, American English club, Debate club and Film show targeting in environmental issues. The AP was expected to raise the consciousness of patrons about the necessity of environment protection
Cooperators	Interns and Staff at the American Center Hanoi
Conducted with whom	October 2010 to April 2011, The American Center Hanoi - U.S Embassy Hanoi
Number of participants	Over 100 people
Achievement /impression	I felt so happy to see the consciousness of environment protection blooming at the American Center. This is a very effective place to raise environmental awareness as so many people coming there for studying and meeting others. Most of them are very young and eager to absorb new ideas. During my time there, I met and talked to many people who really wanted to broaden their knowledge, and sincerely wanted to protect the environment. However, they were lacking of guide and stimulation. Better late than never! Even though my Action Plan was small-scaled, it did fire the excitement and willingness to take action in people; and creat an active, socially responsible and pioneering image for the Center.

Learning from DYEA

Participating in DYEA was the best gift for my twenty, the age of growing up in my country. Before joining the program, I had lots of ideas, however, did not know how to make them true. The facilitators and participants themselves taught me to overcome my timidity and ready to make changes. I learnt that changes started from the most familiar and simplest things. So I no longer that my AP was so small-scaled, as I know, one day they would be very great change. As long as you keep faith, what you want will be yours. Another thing is cooperate with others. The journey will be more interesting and challenges will be less difficult. What I learned from DYEA will be the firm base for all my life.

Current Situation（Environmental activities besides your AP and changes in attitude from DYEA）

[1] Officer on environment in the national or local government
The Earth Hour hosted by WWF Vietnam
[2] Volunteer
The Earth Hour 2010 hosted by WWF Vietnam
[3] Participants
The International biodiversity day 2009 hosted by GTZ

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Riska Mirzalina

Year of Participation	2010
Country of residence	Indonesia
Gender	Female
Name	Riska Mirzalina (Riska)

Outline of Action Plan (AP)

Title	Klassamirza: Rethink What You Shop
Activities	Doing a survey to Klassamirza's customers about their preference on green product and their level on green attitude. Environmental communication through website and seminar at school.
Cooperators	Prasetiya Mulya Business School. Atmajaya University. Hitachi. Bank Mandiri. Gyoza design.
Period and Venue	December 20-22, 2011. April 11-May 25, 2011, Atmajaya University.
Period and Venue	Http://klassamirza.multiply.com
Conducted with whom	100 university students. 118 Klassamirza customers.
Number of participants	Over 100 people
Achievement /impression	At Atmajaya University, the team and I prepared a business competition which reusing waste from trash or unused products. The event called "Who Wants to be Young Entrepreneur?" invited 100 universities students from across Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, and Bekasi city. In that event, I also served as facilitator sharing tips of running a business which can be environmentally friendly including the counting of carbon footprint using carbon calculator for business. Participants are very motivated and inspired to create socio-environmental business. Addressing the problem of awareness in Klassamirza as shoes which reusing textile waste, I have rebranding Klassamira website and the logo with the help of Gyoza Design by promoting the theme "Rethink What You Shop". We also conduct a survey between May-June 2011 to 200 customers analyzing the green attitude and belief that customers have and their intention to buy green products.. The result is still under statistical process which will be out soon.

Learning from DYEA

DYEA definetely changes my perspective in working ethique toward environment, especially from Japan experiences. It is also taught me in technical way by meeting me with the stakeholder and hear their voice.

Current Situation（Environmental activities besides your AP and changes in attitude from DYEA）

Participants:
British Council Global Changemakers on Socio Entrepreneurship Working Group (July 17-23, 2011). International Student Festival in Trondheim, Norway (February 10-21, 2011) in Climate and Environment Working Group, covered scheme of REDD++.

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Action Plan List - PDF Download

The Action Plans conducted by DYEA 2010 participants.

Thailand - Malaysia - Vietnam - Indonesia - Philippines - Singapore - Japan

(★Presenter in the forum)

Thailand

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Nichapa Dhamabutra	Pa(y)per -costless pay back to nature-
Summary
Currently, university students use great amount of fresh paper everyday without proper awareness and a clear mindset that they are actually hurting the environment. My action plan is intended to encourage university students to use paper wisely.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Sorawich Sontijirawong	Leave Reef Live
Summary
Thais have marin wildlife(clownfish) as pet and the demands are still continually growing. if this goes on, it will lead to destroy the marin ecosystem. Easily found and the cost is cheap, law punishments are weak, so people become less aware on the losing of marine resources. My action plan aims to educate people about the marine system, joining with NGO and utilizing Media.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Supanuth Chuerattanakul	Saving Sharks, Saving Us
Summary
Overfishing has decimated shark populations around the globe. Shark-finning is the practice of catching a shark, slicing off its fins and then discarding the body at sea. Actually, the fins are easily exposed to toxic substance. My action plan is to reduce overall consumption of shark fin and to protect marin ecosystem by enlightening my university students.

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Malaysia

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Amirul Asraf Tumin	Environmental Education through tree planting in SMK SRI PEKAN, PAHANG
Summary
My action plan is to implement environmental education for high school students through the activities of tree planting. The students will undergo some interactive animated presentation, group discussion (experience sharing), exhibition and they will learn the right method to plant a good ornamental trees.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Lionel Harith Sebastian Daraup(★)	Turtle camp -A chance to LIVE-
Summary
In Terengganu, Malaysia, turtle egg consumption is at an alarming state. It is known as a traditional cuisine among the local people. My action plan aims to create awareness among the kids on sea turtles conservation through the activities of turtle camp(game and tour).

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Sharifah Izyan Syed Jaafar	White Poison
Summary
More Styrofoam being thrown in Faculty and college area. My action plan is to reduce solid waste in my Faculty and residential area by promoting zero-waste concept and to introduce system of recycling.

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Vietnam

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Dang Hong Thai	Adopt a tree
Summary
My action plan aims to raise the awareness of the students and pupils on environmental issues and to create a good habit for them in terms of environmental protection through forestation activities, cooperating with Go Green International Vietnam(NPO).

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
LeHong Diem	Reliving and rethinking
Summary
In general, the waste problem of people living in local area is low and garbage collection ratio is less than 70%. In order to inflict positive behavior into Vietnamese people on environment, the first thing we need to do is to show them how this positive behavior can bring economic benefits for them. My action plan aims to collect materials for recycled products and to find the market for products, cooperating with NPO. Later, I will try to expand this model into “Recycling and Waste Management Village at Xuan Tinh, Ung Hoa, Hanoi”.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Nguyen Thi Phuong Linh	EPAC (Environmental Project American Center Hanoi)
Summary
My action plan is to create a sense of responsibility to resource use and environmental issues in the American Center Hanoi. Concretely, I will try to do activities for classifying waste by holding environmental seminer and improve environmental awareness in this Center.

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Indonesia

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Dyah Ayunico Ramadhani	SMANDEL: Eco School
Summary
I will organize ECO-Club in the High School and seminers will be held by teachers and celebrities in order to promote the environmental awareness through the activities of trash separation and cleaning. Each class will be given points for every time they do environmental actions (just like Deco-pon but simpler) as a form of positive reinforcement.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Riska Mirzalina(★)	Klassamirza
Summary
In 2008, I started up business of ladies shoes( Klassamirza shoes), made of 20-70% recycled textiles taken from fabric manufacture disposal sites in order to try to offer Indonesian market with eco-fashion products, addressing waste-problem issues. My action plan aims to change customers’ mind that being fashionably green is cool and will benefit our selves and the planet, stimulating perception that our brand is green and promoting self esteem by supporting our environmental campaign, with Klassamirza shoes as a model for products introduction.

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Philippines

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Denesse Marie Handumon(★)	Environmental Education and recyclables collection
Summary
I will do activities to improve elementary students' consciousness on the environment in Angeles Elementary school in Pampanga. Concretely, the environmental awareness lecture will be given to the students, and they will bring used papers and the elementary school will sell the collected these materials to recyclable companies by the end of the month.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Mary Cherwyn Castro	Chemical Waste Management
Summary
The Chemistry Department has no strict implementation of chemical waste segregation and management. Therefore, my action plan aims to implement environmental education for identifying all types of wastes in the Department and for establishing proper segregation of these wastes, cooperating with Eco-Club members.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Rea Allen Agbon	Hear Mother Earth
Summary
My action plan is to raise university students' awareness on the ongoing solid waste management project Isko Cleans UP (ICU). I try to encourage participation from UP students taking up science subjects by broadcasting environmental education program in my university radio.

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Singapore

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
JOHN YUH HAN LIOW	International Pellet Watch: Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Singapore
Summary
My proposed action plan involves the collection of plastic resin pellets at coastal locations in Singapore for the purpose of monitoring marine pollution. This aims to establish a study group in Singapore for the collection of plastic pellets so that samplings are done and to use results of analysis in raising awareness of water quality.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
YUE CHAU KWAN	Solid Waste Management Study Tour
Summary
My action plan is to make singaporean students participate in the solid waste management study tour, cooperating with NPO and vietnamese participants, and to heighten the environmental consciousness.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
YUEN SEAN LAM	Promotion of household vermicompost in Singapore
Summary
My action plan is to lessen the amount of organic wastes and to promote household vermicomposting in Singapore, cooperating with local NPO.

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Japan

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Atsushi Motohashi(★)	Social Action through work
Summary
My action plan is to display eco-friendly products and books concerning the environment in the university Coop, and to heighten the students' consciousness on environmental issues.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Chikako Ieda	Eco Campus Tour in English
Summary
Ferris university is famous for eco-friendly campus. However, students in my university don’t pay attention to eco campus so much and environmental awareness is not so high among students. Therefore, I will try to improve environmental awareness of students through Eco Campus Tour in English in my action plan.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Kana Kuroda	Science Communication Cafe Jr.
Summary
I would like many students to value the interests to social problems and mind to clear such problems. My action aim lets Kyoto university students think that they can contribute to clear the social problems in any fields by telling the meaning and fun of businesses. As for concrete activities, CSR seminers will be held, cooperating with employment bureau in Kyoto university and DENSO CO.,LTD.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Shinichi Moriyama	Designing Ecomuseum on your foot
Summary
It is aimed that my action plan promotes face-to-face communication event between high school students and university students in science and technology department through Science Communication Café.

Name	Action Plan Title	PDF
Yumi Suto	Let’s spread nature friendly products and books
Summary
My action plan is to conserve landscape and to make efficient use of it in Kitakyushu and neighbor area called Keichiku in Fukuoka through Green Map method.