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Dedicated to the advancement of ecotechnology,a technology that advocates both the Natural and Human Environments.

Perspectives on Ecotechnology

Securing the future through ecotechnology

Ecotechnology is at the heart of the Honda Foundation's operating principles. It was coined to combine ecology and technology, and describes the Foundation's perspective.

Ever since the industrial revolution the development of science and technology has primarily centered on materials and energy. Heavy industries developed using fossil fuels for energy have long supported the economic activities of the advanced countries. However, these technologies were exhausting the global environment with some developments leaving concerns for people out the equation causing numerous environmental problems. It goes without saying that in order for the human race to survive, it is necessary to recover harmony with whole of the earth's Natural Environment.

However, there is another perspective that the Foundation holds to be important, that being the importance of factoring in the harmonization between science and technology and the Human Environment. In the past, science and technology have emphasized universality, objectivity and rationality while the diversity of countries and regions and human elements such as emotion and sensitivity have been excluded. Yet the protagonist of the science and technology paradigm should be the human being. It would be meaningless to ignore that fact and pursue standard technical development in the names of universality and rationality, as it would put the diversity of culture and life in jeopardy.

Science and technology that is in harmony
with both the Natural Environment and the Human Environment───

This is precisely the kind of science and technology that is needed in the 21st century, what we call ecotechnology and is what we are striving to expand. Furthermore, our concept of ecotechnology reflects this thinking and is characterized by its broad perspective to channel knowledge in many areas from natural and applied sciences to social science and more. We are confident that the pursuit of the possibilities of ecotechnology from this broad perspective will lead to building a truly sustainable society, and our Foundation is committed to efforts for the expansion of ecotechnology through a variety of activities.

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