The Daiwa-JFS Sustainability College was a series of 48 lectures from 2006 to 2010 on the basic concepts of sustainability. The aim was to boost awareness and facilitate action by the young people who will lead the next generation in Japan, and to enhance sustainability in society as a whole. The English transcripts of the lecturers, who represented a diversity of careers, offer valuable input even now to capture the big picture of sustainability.
This project was carried out in partnership with the Daiwa Securities Group, one of our supporting organizations at that time, by donations from Daiwa Securities Co. and Daiwa Asset Management Co. The amount donated was determined by the amount of net assets of an investment trust named the "Daiwa Eco Fund."
You can read the transcripts of the past lectures as below:
(The last lecture of the series was in 2010. The lecture content and the speaker profiles were prepared at the time of the lecture.)
Feb 8, 2011
Lecturer: Kuniko Kamiyama, Program Officer, an NPO, Civil Society Initiative ...
Feb 6, 2011
Lecturer: Takayuki Tsujii, General Manager of Patagonia Japan Today, I woul...
Jan 22, 2011
Lecturer: Nobuyuki Kume, President, Kume Co., Ltd. Are Japanese T-Shirt Man...
Jan 17, 2011
Lecturer: Yoshitaka Mori, Associate professor, Department of Musical Creativi...
Jan 11, 2011
Lecturer: Jiro Adachi, Program Coordinator for the Green Tax Reform Program o...
Dec 31, 2010
Lecturer: Hajime Shiraishi, Director of non-profit organization OurPlanet-TV ...
Sep 8, 2010
Lecturer: Mari Suzuki, Secretary General and Director, Asian Community Center...
Aug 29, 2010
Lecturer: Mikako Awano, CBD Senior Officer, Conservation Division, WWF Japan ...
Aug 29, 2010
Lecturer: Nao Suzuki, Chief editor of Greenz.jp, Director of Biopio Inc. Ch...
Jul 27, 2010
Lecturer: Hitomi Kamanaka, Documentary Auteur Do the Viewers Get the Message...
Jun 28, 2010
Lecturer: Yojiro Ishii, Deputy Director General, and Group Director for Healt...
May 12, 2010
Lecturer: Keiko Kiyama, Secretary General of JEN Japan Emergency NGOs (JEN),...
Feb 18, 2010
Lecturer: Tsuji Shin'ichi, cultural anthropologist, author, translator, envir...
Feb 3, 2010
Lecturer: Sayaka Murata, Co-leader of NPO Kamonohashi Project Social busine...
Dec 24, 2009
Lecturer: Osamu Hasegawa, Rera-no-kai representative and executive director o...
Dec 8, 2009
Lecturer: Junichi Hibino, President of FM Wai Wai, a member of Japanese Counc...
Oct 22, 2009
Lecturer: Mieko Takenobu, Editor of Asahi Shimbun First I would like to ta...
Aug 26, 2009
Lecturer: Kentaro Iemoto, President and CEO of Clara Online, Inc. Today, I ...
May 19, 2009
Lecturer: Taro Tamura, Representative of Institute for Human Diversity Japan ...
May 19, 2009
Lecturer: Hiroshi Iijima, Administrative Director of the Nonprofit Organizati...
Apr 23, 2009
Lecturer: Masato Minami, representative of Wildlife Community Institute I h...
Apr 8, 2009
Lecturer: Naoki Adachi In Malaysia where I had been working as a scientist,...
Mar 25, 2009
Lecturer: Takuji Hiroishi, the president of empublic Ltd. and senior fellow o...
Jan 26, 2009
Lecturer: Naoki Shiomi, Representative of Half-Farmer and Half-X Institute ...
Jan 22, 2009
Lecturer: Charles E. McJilton, Executive Director at Second Harvest Japan A...
Jan 20, 2009
Lecturer: Tetsuro Yoshimoto, the president of Jimoto-gaku Network, a project ...
May 31, 2008
Lecturer: Makoto Yuasa, Chief of the secretariat of non-profit organization, ...
Apr 30, 2008
Lecturer: Atsushi Miura, Director of Cultural Studies. Fast Fudo, is a term ...
Mar 31, 2008
Lecturer: Masaki Kimura, representative director of the community youth bank ...
Feb 29, 2008
Lecturer: Koh Kitazawa, representative of Fair Trade Resource Center. I work...
Jan 31, 2008
Lecturer: Kazuyoshi Fujita, Chairperson of "Daichi-o-Mamoru-Kai" and presiden...
Dec 31, 2007
Lecturer: Mariko Moriyama, Chairperson, Japan Bear & Forest Association Japa...
Nov 30, 2007
Lecturer: Hisashi Sonehara, representative head director of the NPO "Egao Tsu...
Sep 30, 2007
Lecturer: Eiichiro Adachi, Head of ESG research center, The Japan research I...
Aug 31, 2007
Lecturer: Noriko Takemoto, Director, Eco Management & Services, Catalog House...
Jul 31, 2007
Lecturer: Eisike Kumano, President, AMITA Corporation Although it is very di...
Jun 30, 2007
Lecturer: Eisuke Ishikawa, Writer If we learn the lifestyle lessons of old E...
May 31, 2007
Lecturer: Keisuke Hanaki, Professor at Department of Urban Engineering, The U...
Apr 30, 2007
Lecturer: Taikan Oki, Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, The Unive...
Mar 31, 2007
Lecturer: Masayoshi Ishiwata, Manager of Inba Regional Development Center, Ch...
Feb 28, 2007
Lecturer: Yuichi Moriguchi, Head of Research Center for Material Cycles and W...
Jan 31, 2007
Lecturer: Nobuo Taniguchi, Deputy Director of Planning Section, General Affai...
Dec 31, 2006
Lecturer: Tetsunari IIDA, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Energ...
Nov 30, 2006
Lecturer: Kouyu Furusawa, professor of ecological economics at Kokugakuin Univ...
Oct 31, 2006
Lecturer: Shigeko N. Fukai, professor in policy studies at Nanzan University ...