I did this talk at the GSJ kick-off in Antwerp. aim: to inspire jammers with learnings from DO Lectures 2011 and Schumacher College Transformation Change seminar 2010.

1. How to save nature
by behaving just like nature?
MANUEL BOLLUE for
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2. Let me take you to … Schumacher College
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3. … and DO Lectures
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4. Resilience
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5. Resilience
“The degree to which
nature
can recover after
(unforeseen)
disturbances.”
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6. Resilience
“The degree to which
organizations
can recover after
(unforeseen)
disturbances.”
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7. Resilience
“The way in which
people
choose to act
in the face of
disturbances.”
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“18.000 TeraWatts of solar power
falls on the earth everyday.
That’s 16.000 x the energy we use daily.”
– Glen Peters, PhD Chemistry and Information mgt. and
founder of Western Solar – Pembrokeshire’s first solar farm
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“Just like computer chips, photovoltaïcs become more powerful,
smaller and cheaper. And thus: available to everyone.
Energy companies will be obliged to buy energy
from energy sources like you and me.”
– Glen Peters, PhD Chemistry and Information mgt.,
Founder of Western Solar – Pembrokeshire’s first solar farm
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“As matter of survival Chido Goveira learned,
when she was just an 11 year old orphan,
to grow mushrooms with organic waste
materials such as used coffee grounds.”
– Treehugger.com on DO Lectures 2011
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15. “An ant might be a nest worker one day, a trash collector the next.”
“In an ant colony, no one’s in charge, each ant acts on local information.”
“They don’t have a leader, they pay close attention to the one next to them.”
– Peter Miller, ‘The Genius of Swarms’
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“It is possible to feed a world population of 9.5 bln
people by 2050, using an integrated polyculture.
This is the exact opposite of the current
neo-liberal fast growing monoculture.”
– Professor Colin Tudge, author of ‘The Tree’, ‘The Bird’
Founder of ‘Campaign for real farming’
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18. O PTIMIZED
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19. WELCOME TO
TRANSITION TOWN
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30. MEET THE
RALLYFIGHTER
7.000 contributors 67 designs 50.000$ 5X faster development
100X less capital Max. re-use of car parts co-created by Local
Motors
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31. Save the world, increase one or more resilience features
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32. A resilient 48 hrs…
Use everything, Combine & tune Exchange with Test your ideas Write a concrete
but be prepared existing ideas, other teams, both in the real 2’ storyboard to
to let go also. steal with pride! local and global. world, fast! pitch your idea.
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33. “What if everything you had …
was everything you HAVE right now?”
– Maggie Doyne, founder of the Blink Now Foundation
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(give orphan children in rural Nepal a secure home, health care and education).