Ryukoku University Sustainability Days, an event introducing efforts to realize a carbon-free society, was held for the first time on September 23, 2024 at Ryukoku University's Fukakusa Campus in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City. Visitors learned about environmentally friendly lifestyles while touring exhibition booths such as a flea market for recycled goods and renewable energy devices.
Kyoto City has been selected by the Ministry of the Environment as a "carbon-free pioneering region" that aims to achieve virtually zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by fiscal year 2030, and the event is part of that project.
On the day, student groups and companies set up booths to display used clothing flea markets and solar panels, in order to make decarbonization efforts more familiar to visitors. In a corner where parents and children could play home video games using bicycle power, they had fun while deepening their understanding of environmental conservation.
On the stage on campus, the car-type time machine "DeLorean" that appeared in the American science fiction movie "Back to the Future" was unveiled. The car is owned by JEPLAN (Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture), a company that operates recycling businesses, and because the DeLorean ran on garbage as fuel in the film, it was being used as a subject for raising awareness of the environment, with visitors being able to test drive in the driver's seat and take photographs.
