At the Kite Surf Tournament, Ecoflag was flying at the event.
We tried to make a beach clean up with the athletes, but the weather wasn't good, so we couldn't make it, but the speaker of the event talked a lot of message about Ecoflag.

The 'Snowstyle Cup' took place at the Washigatake Ski Slope in Gifu Prefecture on 7-8 February 2004.
Studio Japaho was there to promote their SBN Snowboard Net (specialist snowboarders website) and The Snow Bully(i-mode snowboarders website), and they were displaying the Ecoflag prominently on their booth.
Eco-s is their environmental initiative to increase environmental awareness and action among snowboarders, and the Ecoflag was being flown to get that message across..
At the Washigatake Ski Slope, they're committed to keeping their mountain clean and the DJ asked the crowd to not carelessly discard litter and tobacco butts throughout the day. Unfortunately, a lot of trash was discarded, and it was sad to realize that environmental awareness is still low among the snowboarding community.
However, it also reconfirmed our commitment to spreading the Eco-s wave until we can stand on a mountain of nothing but beautiful powdered snow.

30 January-1 February, Snowboardnet (SBN) hosted OFF LINE EDIT#17 at the Niseko Hirafu Ski Resort in Hokkaido. SBN is a website for snowboard enthusiasts (http://snowboardnet.jp/ (Japanese only)) as well as an organizer of group trips. 28 participants and 5 staff took part in this trip, which enjoyed near perfect conditions. It was through an enjoyment of snowboarding and an appreciation of the natural environment that developed from it, that SBN established eco-s (http://eco-s.jp (Japanese only)), a wave of self-motivated action and awareness raising by snowboarders.
The Ecoflag was flying during the evening party where participants made new friends, filled with exuberance from the day’s action and incredible mountain scenes.

A skiing field trip for Tokai University student took place 14-17 January at the Tsumagoi Takahara research center in Gunma prefecture. About 100 students took part in the trip to the Pallcall and Baraki Tsumagoi ski resorts, situated 1400 meters above sea level with views reaching as far as Mount Asama.

The future of winter sports the subject of a report by UNEP at the 5th World Conference on Sports and Environment, which took place in Torino at the end of last year. According to the report, in a worse case scenario, nine ski locations in Australia and up to sixty percent of Swiss resorts could be wiped out by 2030, due to the effects of global warming. Creating artificial snow has a larger environmental impact and could make resorts cost-ineffective. Switzerland, which relies heavily on its winter sports industry, could stand to lose over a $1 billion in revenue. Environmental problems the health and performance of athletes, but threaten to curtail our lifestyles, our ability to enjoy sport and even our nation's economies.