{"id":7940,"date":"2016-11-03T04:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T08:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/does-euglena-0-05mm-micro-algae-brighten-the-future-of-food-and-energy\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T04:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T08:42:02","slug":"euglena-microalgae-the-future-of-food-and-energy","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/euglena-microalgae-the-future-of-food-and-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Euglena \u2013 microalgae \u2013 the future of Food AND Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The climate change may pose significant problems and constraints in our life near future: the scarcity\u00a0of foods, the higher exposure to health risks, a\u00a0necessity of avoiding fossil fuels utilization and improving energy efficiency, etc (1).<\/p>\n

But there is one thing which can possibly\u00a0resolve most of the issues: \u00a0Euglena, the 0.05mm\u00a0 microalgae.<\/p>\n

euglena Co., Ltd (Euglena Co.) based in Tokyo, Japan,was launched in 2005 and became the first company in the world to succeed\u00a0to mass-produce euglena outside (2). Euglena Co. went public by listing itself to the Tokyo Stock Exchange\u2019s MOTHERS (\u201cMarket Of The High-growth and Emerging Stocks\u201d) on December 20th, 2012 and moved from MOTHERS to the first section of the Exchange on December 3rd, 2014 (3) and the stock price skyrocketed after IPO to the today’s level of about nine-ten times of the first day’s price as people see the plenty of possibilities euglena carries.<\/p>\n

The tiny euglena is expected to be utilized in broad ways:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0As Foods and Sources of nutrients<\/p>\n

It is said that the global warming would badly affect our access to water and it would result in less production of food. Moreover, as agricultural activities represented by raising livestock account for the large part of CO2 emissions, current agricultural practices may be necessary to be reconsidered while the world would need more and more foods due to the expected population growth.<\/p>\n

Euglena can be a key to solve this difficult situation. As euglena has hybrid characters as both a plant and an animal, while euglena photosynthesizes consuming CO2 as a plant does, it contains proteins and fats (4).<\/p>\n

Furthermore, it contains as many as 59 nutrients, is efficiently digestible and absorbable\u00a0to our bodies, and has more merits and Euglena Co. describes euglena as “superfood” (5).<\/p>\n

List of 59 nutrients found in euglena (5)<\/p>\n

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source: Euglena Co. website<\/p>\n

Now you can buy the euglena products through their EC website “euglena farm (http:\/\/www.euglena-farm.jp\/Index).” In addition, As euglena can be produced while reducing CO2, it has a huge potential as foods and sources of nutrients in the future world with many constraints.<\/p>\n

In addition, euglena can also be used as animal feeds instead of crops. This would contribute not only to change the above-mentioned agricultural practices\u00a0but also to enhance the quality and health status of livestock\u00a0(6). As euglena can be produced while reducing CO2, it has a huge potential as foods and sources of nutrients in the future world with many constraints.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0As Green Technologies<\/p>\n

Though mentioned little above, another feature of euglena we should look at is its high capability of capturing CO2 and converting it in oxygens; it is as efficient as two to three times of tropical forests in terms of per acre. \u00a0Euglena Co. is working with other entities to utilize this feature to purify industrial pollution (7).<\/p>\n

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source: Euglena Co. website<\/p>\n

Euglena can be a tool which would more directly attack the causes of the climate change by turning CO2 into oxygens or by dissolving pollutants discharged.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0As Alternative Fuels<\/p>\n

While euglena has already been provided as foods, Euglena Co. is more enthusiastic about euglena’s potential as biofuels. Euglena Co. has been collaborating with some companies such as Isuzu Motors Ltd. and ANA Holdings Inc. End of the last year, Euglena Co. announced that it will set up a demonstration plant by 2018 and start commercial production in 2020s, and ANA Holdings Inc., Japan’s one of two major airlines, would use it as a part of the\u00a0fuel mixture (8).<\/p>\n

Though Euglena Co. is still working on improving the productivity, it is no longer a fantasy in the distant future to access to alternative fuels which would emit not CO2.<\/p>\n

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While dealing with a climate change is a huge challenge many entities all over the world should seriously take and manage, one venture based in Tokyo, with a micro plant-like creature, can be a game-changer.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/p>\n

(1)<\/sup>\u00a0Rebecca M. Henderson, Sophus A. Reinert, Polina Dekhtyar, Amram Migdal., “Climate Change in 2016: Implications for Business Programme.\u201d 性视界 Business School. October 2016.<\/p>\n

(2)<\/sup>\u00a0euglena Website: About Euglena the Algae. https:\/\/www.euglena.jp\/en\/labo. Accessed 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n

(3)<\/sup>\u00a0euglena Website: IR News (Japanese only).\u00a0https:\/\/www.euglena.jp\/info\/2012\/1116.html & https:\/\/www.euglena.jp\/info\/2014\/1210.html.\u00a0Accessed 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n

(4)<\/sup>\u00a0Jeff Yang, “Is the Future of Food in Tokyo?” Wall Street Journal.\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2013\/07\/25\/is-this-the-future-of-food\/.\u00a0Accessed 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n

(5)<\/sup>\u00a0euglena Website: Nutrition Capability. https:\/\/www.euglena.jp\/en\/solution. Accessed 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n

(6)<\/sup>\u00a0euglena Website: Food &\u00a0Feed. https:\/\/www.euglena.jp\/en\/solution\/foods.html. Accessed 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n

(7)<\/sup>\u00a0euglena Website: Recycling Waste for Growth. https:\/\/www.euglena.jp\/en\/solution\/environment.html. Accessed 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n

(8)<\/sup>\u00a0Chris Cooper, “Euglena Soars After Saying It Will Supply Algae Fuel to ANA” Bloomberg. http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-12-02\/euglena-soars-after-saying-it-will-supply-algae-fuel-to-ana.\u00a0Accessed 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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