Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) in Houston, TX sponsored a free e-waste recycling event at its Houston facility that allowed people from the community to safely discard of used electronics equipment. The company also sponsored a tree planting activity in April.

TAMS kicked off its Earth Day celebration plans on St. Patrick's Day with a green-themed weekly communication initiative counting down to Earth Day. The initiative has kept people informed with TAMS "Green Facts," plus information about a TAMS' e-waste recycling event and phone collection. The company also held an employee raffle for a basket of "green items" (such as Toshiba LED light bulbs), with all proceeds donated to Habitat for Humanity.

To celebrate Earth Day, TAEC held e-waste recycling events in multiple locations that allowed people in the local community to safely discard used electronics gear. Employees from the Irvine, Marlborough, San Diego and San Jose locations also participated in a cellphone collection event to support numerous environmental causes and social welfare organizations.

Employee "Day of Service" in Irvine, CA
TABS and TAIS followed the format they began last year with Earth Day celebration plans, offering a "day of service" to all employees that will give them an opportunity to participate in volunteer events associated with Earth Day.

TAIS and TABS coordinated several events during Earth Week for their employees to participate in a day of service. TAIS in San Jose, CA worked with the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy for an event on April 19 that included weeding, spreading mulch/wood, river cleanup and planting. Additionally, TAIS in Irvine, CA partnered with TABS for two events, including the Ocean Institute Beach Clean-Up on April 20, and the Irvine Ranch Conservancy Native Plant Farm clean-up on April 21.

Toshiba of Canada, Ltd. (TCL) In Ontario, Canada took part in the city wide "20 minute makeover". For 20 minutes on April 15th, 2011 Toshiba employees collected litter around our workplace. Additionally, as part of our Earth Month events, Toshiba officially announced our three year partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

TCL has donated 70 trees and shrubs including a Japanese maple to the Hugh Garner Green Roof Project, in partnership with the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto Charitable Fund (CHFT).

A green roof cools the air on hot summer days and reduces energy consumption by cooling the building underneath it.

The plants on the roof contribute to better air quality by trapping particulate matter, and by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen. Once finished, the Hugh Garner Green Roof it will be the largest and most innovative residential project of its kind in Ontario.

As part of Toshiba's Environmental Vision 2050 and Toshiba's plan to plant 1.5 million trees worldwide by 2025, and in collaboration with Million Tree NYC, Earth Day NY, NY Parks Department, TAI held a tree planting event on April 17th at Randall's Island, just to the North East of Manhattan. TAI's CEO led the Toshiba team, which was joined by 30 students from Xavier High School in Manhattan and 20 people from other partner organizations.

The Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the Director from Million Trees NYC, and the Executive Director from Earth Day NY also joined and applauded Toshiba's initiative during the event. Toshiba planted 40 trees to commemorate Earth Day (4/22)'s 40 year anniversary.

Toshiba donated to the Arbor Day Foundation Toshiba donated to the Arbor Day Foundation helped to plant 80,000 trees in Southern California National Forest areas damaged by wildfires in 2007 as part of Toshiba's 1.5M tree planting project.

Toshiba employees joined the planting in California to help replenish woodlands in national forests recently destroyed by fires.

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TIC planted trees and clean up Houston's Aron Ledet Park, working in conjunction with the Trees for Houston.

Many Toshiba employees including its management have volunteered, along with family and friends, to join in the effort to help beautify their neighboring community.

Toshiba Group initially decided to make a donation equivalent to 500 million yen (approximately $6 million) immediately after the earthquake, in order to contribute to relief and recovery efforts in the aftermath of the disaster. Toshiba Group has now decided to donate an additional 500 million yen (approx $6 Million), raising the total donation to 1 billion yen ($12 Million).

Earthquake and Tsunami Recovery: Toshiba Group is supplying free residential photovoltaic power generation systems, rechargeable batteries and energy-efficient home appliances, including LCD TVs, air-conditioners, refrigerators, rice cookers and LED lighting for 100 public housing units the government is providing for earthquake victims in the region.

Toshiba America is also supporting American Red Cross earthquake relief efforts with employee donations matching the amount of over $85,000 donated by Toshiba America Companies in June 2011. Toshiba employees in the U.S. have raised over $125,000.

Red Cross officials visited Westinghouse headquarters in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, on May 24 to thank the company for its support of Japan relief and recovery efforts.

Westinghouse donated $1 million to the overall effort. The majority of the contribution went to the Red Cross' Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Fund; the remainder went to the Village of Tokai, which sustained significant damage from the disaster. Tokai is the location of a Nuclear Fuel Industries (NFI) facility; Westinghouse is NFI's majority owner.

Toshiba Group has made a pledge of $50,000 toward relief efforts in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Chile. Part of the pledge supported Giving Children Hope, an Orange County non-profit organization that reaches out across the globe to support children in distress. Some of the donation was used for tarp materials donated to several communities where thousands of temporary wooden structures have been built for those who lost their homes in the Maule and Biobio regions, the areas most affected by the earthquake.

TAI has provided in-kind product donations to several prominent Haitian earthquake relief organizations to help them facilitate medium- to long-term reconstruction efforts including housing, job creation, and communication needs.

The Toshiba product donations, offered to organizations including "Habitat for Humanity International", "MercyCorps", and "Yéle Haiti Foundation" include Toshiba laptops, mini notebooks, portable camcorders, uninterruptable power supplying devices (UPS), TVs and MFPs.

The in-kind technology donations follow Toshiba Corporation's initial pledge of $100,000 made in January 2010 to help relieve suffering caused by the devastating Haitian Earthquake.

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In order to help strengthen community pride, TABS and TAIS participated in several "build days." As a Whole House sponsor, Toshiba contributed $250,000 toward building one of the 27 new homes in San Juan Capistrano as part of the Habitat for Heroes & Foundations for Families™ project.

As the group's Official Technology Sponsor, Toshiba has committed to donate 150 laptops in Habitat for Humanity homes over the next three years.

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• Learn more about our first laptop distribution

TAIS annually donates hundreds of pounds of canned and other non-perishable items to the food pantry South County Outreach, an Orange County, non-profit, providing a host of services to help the community's homeless, unemployed, and underemployed supporting over 900 families per month.

Toshiba also became the Official Technology Sponsor of South County Outreach, outfitting its computer learning lab with 24 new laptops.

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TABS sponsored teams in an annual one-day Build-A-Boat event at the Ocean Institute. Teams have four hours to build a boat out of four pieces of plywood, with no power tools being allowed. After the boat is built, there is a competitive race with one adult and one child in each team's boat.

The event gives Toshiba employees the opportunity to work together with children and community, and also provides a opportunity for children to learn how to work as a team, follow directions, and helps with their math skills. The proceeds raised from this event are used to maintain the Ocean Institute's Tall Ships.