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3E International Conference

ETRI (Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute) Daejeon
October 29, 2009

 


The Asia Institute’s 3E Café hosted an international seminar via video conference that brought together students from Tsinghua University in China, University of Tsukuba in Japan and the Solbridge International School of Business in Daejeon. The discussion concerned efforts at the local level to address environmental issues. 3E refers to environment, energy and economy, the primary concerns of human civilization today. ETRI (Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute) allowed us to use their cutting-edge facilities for the event.


Article on the 3E Café appears in Asia Pacific Business and Technology Report
October 1, 2009

The recent international 3E Café organized by SolBridge students under the aegis of the Asia Institute was featured in the Asia Pacific Business and Technology Report. The article details the efforts of SolBridge students to form a network for cooperation with students around the world to address the challenges of environment, energy and economy. In particular the August international student conference featuring students from SolBridge, KAIST, University of Tsukuba and other institutions was highlighted in the article.

http://www.biztechreport.com/story/234-3e-caf%C3%A9-daejeon-korea


3E Forum
Shenzhen, China
September 22, 2009

The 3E Forum for discussions on the environment, energy and the economy between China, Japan and Korea will meet in Shenzhen, China, to discuss closer collaboration in environmental technologies. This meeting follows on the Tunza Conference in Daejeon and anticipates the debate at the Copenhagen Conference.


The 3E Cafe international meeting
Daejeon, Korea
August 19-22, 2009

 


Youth from Korea, China, Japan and other nations met in breakout sessions from the UNEP Tunza Conference to hold the first international 3E Cafe (environment, energy, economy) in Daejeon. Three students from the 3E Cafe in Tsukuba, Japan, visited Daejeon for three days for this conference. Richard Register, President of Ecocity Builders (Oakland, California, USA), the man who invented the term "ecocity" delivered a talk and participated in a discuss of the 3E Cafe held at Daedeok Innopolis the evening of August 20.


3E Forum in Daejeon
Daejeon Convention Center
May 13, 2009


The Asia Institute organized the first international 3E (environment, energy and economy) Forum featuring leading Asian scholars on the environment at the International Conference on Innovation Clusters (ICIC).

The forum was led by Dr. Ji-won Yang, Vice President of KAIST and expert in environmental technology.

The 3E Forum (energy, the environment and the economy) was started among researchers at Tsukuba University and the research institutes that make up the Tsukuba Cluster in 2007. Experts in the 3E Forum discussed how the researchers in that cluster could improve collaboration and effectively use their technologies to make Tsukuba itself a leading center for environmental sustainability.


Director Pastreich to Washington, D.C. and Palo Alto Center for Strategic and International Studies & Stanford University
February 16-21, 2009


Director Pastreich visited the United States with Vice President Ji-Won Yang of KAIST to discuss future cooperation on environmental issues, particularly as part of the eco-city Coalition proposed by the Daejeon Green Growth Forum.
Vice President Yang and Director Pastreich spoke about the activities of the Daejeon Green Growth Forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on February 17th. This event at Washington, D.C.’s leading center for public policy was well attended by policymakers, especially in light of the concurrent visit of Secretary of State Clinton to Tokyo and Seoul.
The two also met with Dr. David Steinberg of Georgetown University, a leading expert in Korean studies, Kevin Doak of Georgetown University, John Feffer, co-editor of Foreign Policy in Focus, and Mike Mochizuki of George Washington University.

The two also spoke at length with Mr. Kyle Danish of Van Ness Feldman, an expert on current environmental policy and a strong supporter of contemporary environmental policy.

The two visited Stanford University and the city of Palo Alto where they met with Mayor Peter Drekmeier of Palo Alto to discuss cooperation with Asia Institute, KAIST and the city of Daejeon as part of a proposed consortium of ecocities. That meeting was followed by meetings with faculty members at Stanford University, including Professors Barton Thompson and Jeffrey Koseff, co-directors of Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment to enhancefuture cooperation on environmental technology.

Director Pastreich also visited the University of California, Merced, where he spoke about the efforts of the Asia Institute in Daejeon and discussed possible cooperation on the eco-city consortium.


Members of Daejeon Green Growth Forum Visit Japan
January 17-22, 2009
Tsukuba, Japan
 
Three members of the Daejeon Green Growth Forum, Ji-Won Yang vice president of KAIST (and Chairman of the Green Growth Forum), Sang-hyeok Yoo, Woosong University professor, and Emanuel Pastreich, director of the Asia Institute, visited Tsukuba, Japan to discuss future collaboration. The visit was related to an initiative being considered to make Daejeon, Tsukuba and Stanford the center of a planned Ecocity Consortium that would span Asia. As one of Asia's largest research cluster, Tsukuba representatives have expressed interest in closer collaboration.

 
The three representatives first met with Dr. Inouye Isao, special assistant to the President of Tsukuba University and chairman of the Tsukuba 3E Forum. The 3E Forum is a group of experts in the Tsukuba research cluster who meet for regular conferences to discuss their research work concerning the environment. The 3E Forum focuses on low-carbon urban strategies and has a similar imperative to that of the Daejeon Green Growth Forum. Professor Inouye expressed strong support for the efforts of the Daejeon Green Growth Forum and promised close cooperation. Moreover, Professor Inouye pledged to introduce our efforts to others in the Tsukuba research community. Other member of the 3E Forum, Professors Utsumi Motoo and Ezura Hiroshi of Tsukuba University, also attended.

 
Chairman Yang and Mr. Honiden at Tsukuba City Hall The following day, the team of representatives visited Tsukuba City hall where they met with Honiden Taku, who serves as the head of Mayor Ichihara Kenichi's office. Mr. Honiden expressed his great interest in the proposal for cooperation on environmental issues between the cities and drew attention to a previous agreement of October 16, 1999 for economic, cultural and scientific cooperation that had been signed between Daejeon and Tsukuba. He relayed the general enthusiasm of the Mayor's office for the proposal. He also spoke of the role played by the Tsukuba which also brings together figures from government, academia and business.

Members of delegation at National Institute for Environmental Studies

 The following day, the team visited Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies for a meeting with Dr. Yasuko Kameyama, Senior Researcher of the Center for Global Environmental Research. The discussion concerned shared concerns about environmental issues in Asia and global strategies for responding to global warming. The Daejeon Green Growth Forum agreed to pursue a closer relationship with the National Institute for Environmental Studies as part of its larger international strategy.

 

Professor Murakami and Dr. Yang Shake Hands The final day of the visit consisted of a visit to the RIKEN Bioresource Center in Tsukuba, a global repository for genetic and laboratory resources. The team met with Dr. Yuichi Kobata, the Director of the Bioresource Center, and Dr. Masatomo Kobayashi, an expert in environmental biotechnology working on new technologies for reforestation. The trip served as an opportunity to cement close relations between both major research institutes and local government in the central technology clusters of Korea and Japan: Daejeon and Tsukuba. It will be followed up by close discussions concerning exchanges by researchers, members of governments, and ordinary citizens.
 

3E Café story (日本語)

The story of 3E International conference in Japanese
インターナショナル3Eカフェ
http://www.solbridge.ac.kr/asiainstitute/new/3E.html

3E Café story (中文)

Green Grants Featured 3E in a recent article in Chinese.
韩国大田3E俱乐部
http://www.greengrants.org.cn/poster/show.php?id=6172



3E Video


The 3E Café (environment, energy & economy) international conference of citizens concerned with the contemporary crisis meet up in Daejeon under sponsorship of the SolBridge International School of Business and the Asia Institute (10 minute video).

 


Richard Register, President of Ecocity Builders, speaks to the 3E Café (environment, energy & economy) involving students from Tsukuba University, SolBridge International School of Business, KAIST, August 19, 2009.