Creating a Sustainable Society
"Junkan Shakai" in Japan and the United States:
The Vision and the Path

A half-day symposium and reception

15 March 2002
University of San Francisco
Lone Mountain Campus, Pacific Rim Conference Center (LM 148)

Prestented by:
USF Center for the Pacific Rim and its Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies

Cosponsors:
The USF Environmental Science Management Department
The USF Environmental Studies Major
The USF Philosophy Department and its Fleishhacker Chair
The Foundation for Global Community
Acterra.

A joint team of Japanese and American researchers on environmental issues and sustainability presents a vision of a “sustainable society” (“junkan shakai”) in the 21st Century. The Japanese term “junkan” means “circulation” and the term designates a society in which resources and social practices are reconceptualized, renewed, and reused in a sustainable manner.

The project culminates a two-year collaboration supported by the Japan Foundation and includes specialists in environmental engineering, policy, advocacy work, business, and philosophy. The vision includes realistic policies and scenarios for how Japan and the U.S. can contribute to achieving a sustainable society.

SCHEDULE

1:00pm
Welcome
Yoko Arisaka, USF Philosophy Department
Barbara Bundy, USF Center for the Pacific Rim

1:15pm
Introduction: Vision for a Sustainable Society
Susan Murcott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tetsuji Arata, Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century

1:40pm
Energy: What Will a Sustainable Energy Future Look Like?
Lis Drake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:05pm
Waste: From a Throw-away Society
to Bio-cycling and Waste as Resource
Saburo Kato, Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century

2:30pm
Lifestyle: How Will New Patterns of Consumption in the 21st Century Change the Quality of Our Lives?
Konoe Fujimura, Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century
Yoko Arisaka, USF Philosophy Department

2:55pm
Green Business: Is There Such a Thing?
Toshihiko Goto, Environmental Auditing Research Group

3:40pm
Comment and Discussion
Commentators: Saburo Kato, Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century;
Susan Murcott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Susan Stansbury, Foundation for Global Community

5:15pm
Closing Remark
Saburo Kato, Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century

5:30
Reception

COST

General Admission, (symposium and reception): $15.00
Seniors and students: $10.00
USF students, faculty and staff: Free
Reservations required.

To reserve your place or for more information, please email us, or call the Center for the Pacific Rim at (415) 422-6357.