日本LCA学会環境教育研究会の取り組み

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A working group for environmental education was set up in the Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan in 2008. The working group aims at introduction of lifecycle thinking into conventional environmental education. This is because that lifecycle thinking is believed to be effective for consumers, particularly younger generations such as elementary and junior high school students, to recognize and cultivate a sense of values of environmentally-friendly life styles. The activities of the working group are: to collect information on environmental education of consumption or utilization of products and services, to discuss the practices of education with lifecycle thinking by working group members, and to publish guidelines on lifecycle thinking work books, as an outcome of the working group. This paper introduces the results of activities in a past fiscal year, with the background of environmental education.