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How to save nature by behaving just like nature?

MANUEL BOLLUE for

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Let me take you to … Schumacher College

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… and DO Lectures

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Resilience

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Resilience“The degree to which

naturecan recover after (unforeseen) disturbances.”

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Resilience“The degree to which organizations can recover after (unforeseen) disturbances.”

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Resilience“The way in which

peoplechoose 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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“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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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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Save the world, increase one or more resilience features

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A resilient 48 hrs…

Use everything, but be prepared to let go also.

Combine & tune existing ideas, steal with pride!

Exchange with other teams, both local and global.

Test your ideas in the real world, fast!

Write a Write a concreteconcrete 2’ story2’ storyboard to board to pitch yopitch your idea.ur idea.

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““What if everything you had …What if everything you had …was everything you HAVE right now?”was everything you HAVE right now?”

– – Maggie Doyne, Maggie Doyne, founder of the Blink Now Foundation founder of the Blink Now Foundation (give orphan children in rural Nepal a secure home, health care and education).(give orphan children in rural Nepal a secure home, health care and education).