This organization deploys integrated projects for environmental conservation and regional promotion targetted at the Lake Kasumigaura watershed area as whole, which is experiencing diverse issues. The project is referred to as a "Citizen's public works project" and has to date seen the participation of a total of 160,000 persons from citizens, administrators, schools, and corporations. It endeavors to build new social systems by means of the cooperation of diverse actors.
As part of this project the below specific activities of (1)~(4) are to be conducted.
(1) Deployment of elementary and junior high school environmental education on regional planning centered on the Lake Kasumigaura catchment area
(2) Development of business models towards restoration of the natural environments of the lake by promotion of fisheries and the revitalization of local communities through fish meal projects using non-native fish and cultivation of rape blossoms using uncultivated agricultural land
(3) Promotion of agriculture and local industry through by means of cooperation among residents, corporations, NPOs, etc, restoration of rice paddies in marshy wetlands and development of catchment area marshland conservation model through exchange among towns and farming villages
(4) Deployment throughout Japan by model creation of Azasa Project to tackle above in an integrated manner