One Earth Guardians Development Institution
Head of Steering Committee

Shin-Ichiro Takahashi, Ph.D.

E-mail: atkshin@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences|The University of Tokyo
ver. March 2020

Recent examples of problems on the Earthmight be caused by human beings’ activities
abnormal climate, global warming-up
resource depletion
destruction of environment（ex. increase of agricultural landscape,development of residential land, deforestation,
contamination of water quality, air pollution)

increases of industrial waste, food loss
human population increase
deficiency of food and water
decrease of diversity, monoculture
economical raising of agricultural products

Apparently, this is crisis mode…

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If we keep the present lifestyle,can we survive on the Earth? (1)Some may believe thathumans are at the top of
the biosphere pyramid.

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If we keep the present lifestyle,can we survive on the Earth? (2)Copyright Kyoko Takahashi 2017

But it may be not true.
We are at the bottom of
the biosphere pyramid.

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If we keep the present lifestyle,can we survive on the Earth? (3)Copyright Kyoko Takahashi 2017

Human beings would be the first
species to be kicked out fromthe Earth, if the Earth could not
keep all living beings.

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If we keep the present lifestyle,can we survive on the Earth? (4)However, we cannot stop our regular life…

What can we do for the Earth in one hundred years?

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Human beings would be the first
species to be kicked out fromthe Earth, if the Earth could not
keep all living beings.

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What can we do for the Earth in one hundred years?

We have heavily utilized the various resourcesof the Earth such as bacteria, plants, animals,and natural resources since the beginning of
human history.
Because we placed a high priority on
economic efficiency in industrial development,
our irreplaceable Earth has been terriblydamaged.

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Why does School of Agriculture start this program?
Agriculture as an academic field covers all
aspects of our daily life from food, clothing,
housing, and more. In this field, establishment ofsustainable scientific technology is an urgent issue.
In Agriculture, it is our mission to identify andsolve the problems which we have caused by using
enormous resources on the Earth. Our goal isbetter coexistence and symbiosis of living beings
including humans.

Agriculture is just a human activity to borrow nature…
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What can we do for the Earth in one hundred years?
The goals for this program are to :1) cultivate human resources as "One Earth Guardians" who are capable of• finding all the problems which we have caused by abusing resources onthe Earth• researching solutions• solving the problems as a team2) develop research in this field as "One Earthology."
In other words, this education and research program isexpected to provide answers for the question:”What can we do for the Earth in one hundred years?"

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Current Educational System
Specialist (Graduate)
Expertise

Generalist (Undergraduate)

Nowadays, students andresearchers in Agriculture
are too specialized in theirown fields.

Specialties

Bachelors

Doctors

Wide and shallow-generalists
and narrow and deep-specialists

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Current Educational System

Also, we will provideopportunities for thosepeople to interact withpeopleDoctors
from various fields
so that they can build
connections to work
Wide and shallow-generalists
together.
and narrow and deep-specialists

Expertise

Expertise

In this program, we
cultivate human resources
not only as experts in theirown fields, but also as
generalists withspecialties
Specialties
who have a wide lens withwhich Bachelors
to view all of society.

One Earth Guardians Educational Program

One Earth Guardians

Specialties

OEGs Development Institution /Office
Adjustment of specialties/corporation with companies/implementation in society

Specialists with wide perspective andconnections to society

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To carry out this program, we have established the OEGs Development Institution and OEGs Office

Program Officers

Director-General

Administrators

Cross-appointed
Professors, et al
Administrators

Advisors (companies, gov. offices)

OEGs Development Institution (Delivering lectures)
Director-General, Deputy Directors
Cross-appointed professors, Supporting professors
Invited lecturers from companies and Gov. offices
University office workers
University Research Administrators (URA)

OEGs Office (Planning, Managing, and Conducting programs)
Program Officers
Advisors from companies and Gov. offices
University office workers
University Research Administrators

Working group for basics curriculum

Around 50 university staff members
support the program’s idea

Around 50 stakeholders
support the program’s idea

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2014

Apr

Start of planning of the program by a small group

2017

Apr 1

Start of the program

Jul -Exchange of opinions with government office, foundations and companies on the program(We have visited around 100 stakeholders)

Dec 1

Establishment of One Earth Guardians Development Institute/Office

Dec 12

1st round of One Earth Guardians Workshop(23 companies, 2 government agencies, 24 our university staffs）

2018

Jan-Feb

Pilot lectures and internships

Feb 28

2nd round of One Earth Guardians Workshop(40 companies, 2 government agencies, 39 our university staffs)

Apr 1

Start of the course
Call of the 1st class and chose around 10 participants in the course

May 18One Earth Guardians Development Program Kickoff Symposium(around 280 participants)

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One Earth Guardians Workshop
Workshop with supporting companies, foundations and institutions
1st round (12th December 2017): ”Figures of One Earth Guardians to be cultivated”
2nd round (28th February 2018): “Paths how to cultivate human resources to be
One Earth Guardians”

Scientists who have

CONCLUSION

points of view from sociology and economics,compliance,flexibility,toughness, andability to find agendas, think, and work together.

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BasicOne Earthology
Cultivate basic abilities
to understand living
beings and agendum of
the field ofenvironmental, food andnatural resource
sciences from a higher
perspective.

Environmental science
Food science
Natural material science
Microbiology
Plant sciences
Animal science
Mathematical science
Social sciences
Economic science
Partially for Applied One Earthology
Science communication
Basics for Science Communication in English
Writing a research proposal/article in English etc.

Broad and higher
perspective
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BasicOne Earthology

Practical
One Earthology

Cultivate basic abilities
to understand living
beings and agendum of
the field ofenvironmental, food andnatural resource
sciences from a higher
perspective.

Cultivate abilities to identify
problems and develop theirsolution through practicalinternship in the real world
and One Earthology
seminar etc.

Broad and higher
perspective

Ability to identify and solve
problems on the EarthInternship typeMission type

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One Earthology Practical Internship
Experience the real world to find and solve the problems
which do not have answers.

Before internship, URAs and university staffs prepare the program for each students
discussing with supporting companies, farmers, foundations and government agencies.

At the farm where
they stayedfor 2 weeks

At the pharmaceuticalventure company

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One Earthology Practical InternshipWe share experiences of each student with all of students, staffs, and supporting
stakeholders. After that, the university staffs have a closed interview with each
student to evaluate.

Criteria of evaluation
Step 1: the student can learn the present situation and find the problems.
Step 2: the student can accept the challenge to find the way to solve them for thefuture.
Step 3: the student can propose the paths to solve them from his/her major fieldand transmit them to the community.
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One Earthology Seminar

Discuss subject related with One Earthology (ex. Tree, Food, Life, Water)in a small group, students, university staff, and the participantsfrom companies, foundations, and government agencies.

Three rules
1: Participants learn together.
2: Participants discuss subjects from broad and higher perspectives.
3: Participants look ahead and think of the future (Talanoa dialogue).

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BasicOne Earthology

Practical
One Earthology

AppliedOne Earthology

Cultivate basic abilities
to understand living
beings and agendum of
the field ofenvironmental, food andnatural resource
sciences from a higher
perspective.

Cultivate abilities to identify
problems and develop theirsolution through practicalinternship in the real world
and One Earthology
seminar etc.

Cultivate abilities totransmit achievement tothe community andchange the concept ofvalues from own society
to all over the world.

Broad and higher
perspective

Internship typeMission type

Ability to identify and solve Ability to promote
problems on the Earththe network
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We believe that "Quality Education" (especially Scientific Literacy)
will lead to the solutions for each goal, andwill create the new academic field "One Earthology".

ESD:
Education for
Sustainable
Development

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Identify and solve the problems
through practical internship

Education

Learn knowledge for practical science(Practical/Applied One Earthology)

Promote the network at the world levels

Learn knowledge(Basic One Earthology)
Providehuman resources

Propose solution to the community

Program Officers
Director-General

Providehuman resources

Administrators

Cross-appointed
Professors, et al
Administrators

Advisors (companies, gov. offices)

Input research seeds

Scout human resources
Offer education seeds
Put the results into
general use
in the society

Build the new research field and group
Collaboration

Research

Please join us and create together the OEGs Development Program
for the future Earth based "practical science" Debate and Contemplate together what kinds of people are needed to achieve ourgoals, and what kind of curriculum as "practical science " is required to do so.
 Share the expertise of each business site through guest lectures or facilitators ofactive learning, or through speaking out at the symposia.
 Set up internship programs which help students find issues in the "real world " andtips for solutions.
 Give advice on MA thesis and PhD dissertation.
 Hire One Earth Guardians in the near future.
 Support to run this program sustainably.

One Earth Guardians Institution
One Earth Guardians OfficePlease join us and create together the OEGs Development Program
for the future Earth based "practical science" Join the exclusive circle of communication consisting of students, professors,
government officers, and business persons.
 Make proposals from business scenes on what issues we need to tackle.
 Become familiar with the latest contents of education and research.
 Be exposed to the needs and seeds of latest research and studies, which mightevolve into joint research projects.
 Audit and participate in OEGs curriculum and become "One Earth Guardians".
 Contribute to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a person or a company

All participants and supporters are candidates of One Earth Guardians. We
need long lasting support to keep paying attention to the issues on the Earthand seeking for solutions.
Let us together apply those solutions as "practical science".

 We know it will take long time before we see the effect of this new educational andresearch program, but we must start it right now.
 We need to expand this activity not only for the agriculture school of UTokyo but also
for all mankind.
 Since we appreciate the value of "practical science", we cross the boundaries ofordinary educational programs at the university, and develop the new programs basedon discussion with multi stakeholders of society.
 All supporters and advocates are candidates of "One Earth Guardians".
 It is neither to protect parochial vested interests, nor to expand commercial profits.
 We will build the system not for human beings alone, but for all living creatures on theEarth including those which are considered of no commercial value.
 We will carry out the paradigm shift from "Economic Capitalism" to "NaturalCapitalism".
 Throughout the 100 years to come, we will go beyond the framework of departments,universities, and even countries to create "One Earthology”.

Examples of conflicting concepts of values
at the present society
Laboratory

VS.

Real world

High quality of food

VS.

Food loss

Economical valueVS.

Biological value

Large scale

VS.

Small scale

DealVS.

FieldLocal

VS.

GlobalDaily life

VS.

Life after 100 years

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If we keep the present lifestyle,can we survive on the Earth?

We will discover a balance
between giving back to the Earthand maintaining our lifestyle.
Integration of
conflicting concepts of values
using SCIENCE
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For the purpose of making the Earth in one hundred years happierthan now, please join us and let us work together!!!

Copyright Kyoko Takahashi 2018

E-mail: one_earth_g@ofc.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp
https://www.utokyo.ac.jp/adm/fsi/en/sdgs_project023.html