Mt. Hotaka Villa with Clean Energy to Tackle Garbage

For the sake of future generations. Eighteen years have passed since the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment issued its declaration in Stockholm. The movement to protect nature and ecosystems is still struggling. Overflowing garbage is the most urgent issue. We now live in an age where we produce and consume while thinking about how to dispose of our waste and how to dispose of it. In this issue, we follow the people who are tackling various kinds of waste. Thick snow covers the ridgeline at an altitude of 3,000 meters. Yari, Hotaka, Sugoroku, Hakuba: ...... On the red roof of Mt. Hotaka's lodge peeking through the lingering snow, thirty-two solar panels bounce back the early summer sun. Mt. Hotakadake Villa, the first clean energy facility in the Northern Alps, is seen from a helicopter in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, May 2, 1990. Photo by Shuichi Sako, May 7, 1990.