Complexity & Simplicity
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Abundance 4 ALL ~ Healthy Holistic Futures
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Together We Are
a Wave of Change…
Abundance 4 ALL gives recipes for Healthy Holistic Futures. We are an education company busy with Design Thinking Methods. Agile. Sprints. Designs. Futures.
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SERVICES
Abundance 4 ALL ~ Health in areas
STOP & GO projects.
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1. Projects ~ We are part of big other teams of changemakers and help you choose from the 1000+ interconnected solutions and implement them locally
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2. Writing ~ we do solutions journalism and try to inspire you in short online education snippets and storytelling...
3. Events - Offline Events in Peloponnese, Greece. Our explanations are also on our YouTube channel.
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​​Our Mediterranean village life in a community of changemakers newsletter is on Substack and is called Abundance! Peloponnese Living.
Full of tips & tricks for life, not holidaying...
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The picture is the ship Porrima. Goddess of the Future. Made by the inspiration thinktank ZERI Zero emission. Zero waste that started us on the biomimicry path. Interconnected biomimicry solutions and 30+ technologies in one ship. 100 ships by 2030, built in Taiwan.
Non-linear designs. A ship fueled by water, wind and solar. Changing the Blue Economy with sustainable fisheries and much more... Base of the regenerative island economies.​
HEALTHY & HAPPY FUTURES - 2012 - 2033 - 2222
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer
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Humans have polarizing minds. We can only make things "true" by comparing. In reality, cold is colder coming from warm. Cold is colder with moist in it. Cold is... Nothing is absolute. Everything is relative. That's relativity.
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We are Desiree Driesenaar & Mike Harps. We are alphas between the betas.
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We have been walking this path of non-reductionism since 2012 and give education and write solutions journalism. We also initiated European projects for ecology-economy. Ecological intensification to make sure no one has local hunger and poverty. Change systems. Climate resilience. Drinkable rivers. Sponge cities. And ecosystem restoration. Food forestry and off-grid life.
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Independence INTO interdependence... Synergy... The Syntropocene of System Dynamics.
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Our current projects are Peppelhof Estate in Holland, redesigning the Dutch countryside with food forestry and off-grid buildings. Soil, water, energy solutions. And Pristine Peloponnese Living in Greece with a Greek team. We are often asked in other countries too. Then, we help local teams to adapt the 1000+ interconnected solutions for sectors, such as transport, energy, food chains, tourism, wildfires, health systems, and more, locally.
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My own fascination however, is now quantum.
Non-physical. Microbes. Human Health. The Biology of Mind. Resilience and Futures.
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How can YOU get involved?
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Follow us online and copy our projects. we share success and fail factors openly to make your life easier. We have 80,000 online followers divided over LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, and Substack.
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Become a member of this website. We have a few package options. For professionals. And for interested citizens/students. Hope is an action. Start walking and MAKE hope.
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Subscribe for our Abundanism! Peloponnese Living newsletter. Life is not about holidaying but about DEEP Travel. No mass tourism but hidden gems. Exploring. And connecting to locals for a hugely interesting and fascinating life in which you understand MORE & MORE about abundance.
Time & Freedom & Stuff -
If you are a member of this website, you are entitled to answers to your questions about city or rural design solutions (we will always answer ourselves, not automated) via email (desiree at driesenaar dot nl) and once a year a 1:1 meeting online.
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You can book 1:1 sessions about Area ReDesigns, or personal assistance. View our booking page.
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You can come to one of our online or Greek events.
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You can ask us for essays, interviews, and education. In our shop, you find education materials.
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Happy changemaking, dear friends! We are nearing the end of our careers now, but we keep working with you for a healthy and better world. Our legacy. So you can stand on higher shoulders for YOUR work.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mainly in the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Spain, Greece, and Indonesia. We implemented the theories of health and peace and Blue Zones into local practice.
We created many pilots that are scaling. The central term is Nature-Based Solutions. And it is about economy more than ecology.
Managing the home (oikes) with knowledge of our home, the planet.
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1. Triple helix - Government + business + education = Venlo Regionomics
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2. Abundant opportunities for local. We focus on redesigning rural because in the cities there's already more biodiversity. And food is mainly still produced in rural. We also focus on basic needs, so we do climate resilience for cities. Prevention of illnesses like COVID.
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3. Climate Change is just local extreme weather. So, we need to adapt with resilience. But we also need ALL people on board. So, simple explanations are crucial.
3 topics:
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Blue economy - Design 4 Biodiversity, sea health, modern ship building, coastal development, tourism different than cruise ships (horrible for local economy)
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Green economy - permaculture, soil biology, freshwater solutions, precision farming, urban tiny forests, systemic biology in microdosing, seeds to forest.
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Policy & business - laws, unconditional basic incomes with tokenization, AI for wildfire prevention and sea health. AR projects to bring archeology back to life.
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Past projects can be found on our projects page.
Regenerative River
Harbor Redesigns
in The Netherlands
Waterfalling energy
from industrial areas
to living areas
solving SDG 1
= energy poverty
Trusted by the Greatest
Hear It from Our Tribe
"There are few persons with the drive and the clarity of Desiree. She goes to the places where her intuition tells her to discover the solutions. She has been a bright light in every corner of the world where we met, studied, and worked. Desiree is a hidden gem in the world of steering business and society toward sustainability. She does what is required, and does it with elegance and efficiency" - Prof. Gunter Pauli, the 'Steve Jobs of Sustainability'.
Zero Emission fighter and business economy prof. from the first hour. Club of Rome.
