The Mekong River flows through six countries and is one of the most biodiverse rivers in the world, but development projects, involving Japan as well as developing countries, are proceeding rapidly and there are concerns that these will cause the deterioration and extinction of river and forest ecosystems. Ensuring sustainable development will require the public, who are not swayed by political interests, to actively advocate and participate in natural resource management. This project aims to create a public version of the Green Mekong Initiative in which citizens propose the form that sustainable natural resource management and ecosystem conservation should take in the basin. First it will survey natural resource usage methods employed in rural areas and turn it into a video. It will then create a platform for the Mekong Basin countries, East Asian NGOs, and researchers to make policy proposals on sustainable regional resource management. As the public version of the Green Mekong Initiative, it will share information, case studies, and experience regarding sustainable resource management, and encourage the creation of community networks in each country in the hope that it will lead to a consensus for setting rules for environmentally considerate development