The Iwate Research Institution of Children and Environment promotes using abandoned school buildings to create facilities where individuals can experience ecological ways of living and farming designed using permaculture principles. To further advance this movement, it aims to create eco-cabins as spaces that visualize the self-sufficient production and consumption of energy, and the use and disposal of water resources, and also provide a venue for live-in training on renewable energy, increasing the functions of the current training center. It hopes that providing a real experience of ecological living to visitors will initiate concrete action on their part, and lead to the creation of a sustainable society.