The United States and Mexico:Employee
Volunteer Activities
 (The
United States)  (Mexico)
Ricoh Electronics, Inc., (REI) a manufacturing company
in the United States, and Ricoh Industrial Mexico, its subsidiary,
established an employee environmental volunteer team called HOPE (Helping Others
and Protecting Our Environment). The team's activities in fiscal 2002 included
creek cleaning in California, road cleaning in Georgia, and reforestation in Mexico. |
Creek cleaning in California |
Road cleaning in Georgia |
Reforestation (Toluka in Mexico) |
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Mexico: Forest Ecosystem Conservation
Project (Mexico)
Ricoh Corporation,
the regional sales headquarters for
the Americas, and Ricoh Latin America,
Inc., a Latin American sales company,
work with WWF*-US, an NPO, in a project
to preserve the forests, water resources,
and the ecosystem of Tarahumara in
Mexico. Ricoh Corporation, the U.S.
company, decided to support this project
in Mexico because it believes it important
for corporate entities to engage in
social contribution activities in
the places where they do business.
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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) |
UK: Forest Ecosystem Conservation
Project  (The
United Kingdom)
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| NRG
Group PLC, based in London, a regional
sales headquarters that handles the
Nashuatec, RexRotary, and Gestetner
brands, supports the commercial marketing
activities of NRG Group companies.
The company has engaged in the activities
in partnership with Future
Forests*, a U.K. environmental
protection organization that makes
investments in forest and environmental
conservation projects around the world.
Future Forests publishes an easy-to-understand
conversion of CO2 emissions
to the number of trees that needed
to be planted in order to remove the
emissions. For example, one tree is
needed to absorb the amount of CO2
emitted by one person for one year,
and it takes two trees to absorb the
amount of CO2 emitted by
energy required by one person for
office heating, lighting, and PC operation
for one year. In December 2002, NRG
Group PLC decided to support Future
Forests' reforestation efforts, asking
all employees to donate £10 per
tree planted. The employees paid for
the planting of 24 trees, each dedicated
to a loved one, and with the company
matching that number a total of 48
trees have been planted. |
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Future Forests members and environmental conservation
staff of NRG Group PLC and Ricoh Europe |
Shenzhen: Tree Planting  (China)
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| On World Environment
Day, June 5, 2002, 26 employees of
Ricoh Asia Industry (Shenzhen) Ltd.
planted 18 trees as a part of an effort
to improve the environment and the
appearance of a seaside park in Shenzhen.
On March 11, 2003, employees also
participated in company tree-planting
activities commemorating China's Planting
Day (March 12). |
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Planting trees on World Environment Day |
Thailand: Protection of Elephants  (Thailand)
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| In Thailand,elephants -the national
symbol- are decreasing in number due to the destruction of the forests
where they
eat and live.Ricoh Thailand is deeply concerned about forest conservation,and
has pledged its support to the Thailand Elephant Conservation Center,which
is developing activities in Lampang,in northern Thailand,by donating
copiers,printers and other economic assistance. |
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Elephants in Lampang, in northern Thailand |
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