Welcome to our website !　

The Network Earth Village was established in Osaka, Japan in 1991, as a non-governmental, non-profit organization for environment and peace, working towards realizing a sustainable society in peace and in harmony with the environment. It was accredited by the United Nations' ECOSOC with "NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations" in May of 2002.

The Network Earth Village, is a world-wide community network for citizens and peoples, working together to help resolving many of the current world issues such as starvation, poverty, wars, environmental degradation from its root-common cause.



Objective: Realization of Peaceful and Sustainable Society

1. SPREAD: Know the Facts and Spread the Facts

2. ACT: Take Action Now
(Begin now by what you can do as an individual, at a community-level, national-level
and on a global scale. Many on-going campaigns and projects on multiple levels to take concrete actions.)

3. EXPRESS and WORK TOGETHER: Express Opinions and Collaborate
(Collaborating, proposing and working together with various civil society organizations such as other NGOs, business firms, local and national governments, and international bodies such as the United Nations)



Activities in Japan

- Hold various lectures, seminars, workshops and symposiums nationwide

- "Stop Global Warming Campaign" a website oriented campaign to reduce CO2 emissions (stop-ondanka.com - the term "ondanka" is Global Warming in Japanese !) You can input your household electricity, gas, and water usages and will immediately calculate how much CO2 you have emitted and saved !

- Propose environmental-friendly policies to resolve environmental issues, such as voicing out against environmentally destructive dam constructions and public works

- To demand a shift in Japanese Government's energy dependency from nuclear energy, to safer and more sustainable energy sources

- Open Questionnaires to political candidates concerning positions on environment

- A national-level peace campaign, calling out to prefecture and city governments, as well as local municipalities nationwide, to adopt a resolution to oppose against the Japanese Government's support for the United States military actions. (over 700 local, prefecture and city governments have adopted opposing resolutions! )



Activities Overseas

- Humanitarian assistance of BHN(Basic Human Needs) and self-support programs for the Afghanistan Refugees

- Participating in COPs (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of Parties) as NGO to appeal for stopping global warming

- Participating in international conferences such as European Environment Conference, to propose and call for a citizens network on a global scale, a United Global Citizens, working together in achieving environmental sustainability and world peace.

- Participating in United Nations Earth Summits, and especially WSSD (World Summit on Sustainable Development) in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003, where we called for further networking with United Global Citizens, and presented our collection of "Peace Messages" from 250 local municipal and governmental representatives in Japan to the Secretary General of United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan. (which we have received an appreciation letter.) - www.unitedglobalcitizens.jp



The Network Earth Village

1-5-301 Doyama-Cho, Kita-Ku, Osaka, Japan 530-0027
Fax: +81-6-6311-0321
Website: www.earthvillage.jp / e-Mail: office@chikyumura.org

(as of August, 2011)