Together We Are
a Wave of Change…
Abundance! is how nature designs. Gaia's Dialogues.
SERVICES
Abundance! has several offerings:
1. Projects - Permaculture land restoration. Biorock sea restoration. Human health.
2. Services - Mentoring. Sounding board for cancer and ex-cancer patients
3. Downloads Non-fiction. Fiction. Philosophy. Canvases. Do-Books.
4. Events - online. Offline in Paralio Astros, Peloponnese, Greece.
5. Impact communication - writing and surfing social media as an impact influencer
Our newsletter is relocated to Substack and is called Abundance! Gaia's Dialogues.
HEALTHY & HAPPY FUTURES
“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
We are Desiree Driesenaar & Mike Harps. We live a nomad life of nature and cultures. After a lifetime of careers, systemic designs, landscape health, we now focus on human health. The same thing of course. Humans can't be healthy without a healthy landscape. Stop pollution. Only then you can make affordable prevention and cures. After all, health is a common expenditure and unaffordable in most places.
We write about affordable health system redesigns. Desiree is a sounding board for (ex) cancer patients. A Voice of Hope. She had cancer herself and wants to give reason to choices of "alternative" and "regular". Pills should only be temporary. Alternative, lifestyle and mental release are great for prevention. Desiree is not a doctor, but a logical nature-planet-understanding sounding board combining Asian strategies (Ayurveda / TCM) with Western ones.
Together with Elena Nazaroff, Desiree works on the programs of "Turn Your Trauma into Your Superpowers."
Short overview of projects and credibility can be found on Desiree's LinkedIn profile. Our Magnum Opus is now happening in Greece, Peloponnese.
We bring all our old projects together. Attract new projects. Creating one big Blue Zone area in an arid, subtropical tourist economy. Where 1:3 people live to become 100+ without chronic illness. Subtropical climate and passionate, hospitable culture. We belong here. We work with a Greek team for long-stay in the off-season and real estate finishing and buying. As well as international permaculturists for soil and water health, changemakers, and retreat organizers. We talk to governments about the industrial fish farmers because they pollute and they suck money out of the Greek economic system. Just like cruise tourists.
Not good for a thriving ecology-economy. You need local to activate more local.
Abundance! Gaia's Dialogues can be entered via Substack. Gaia will show us futures, we give you simple recipes how to get there locally in different climate zones and different cultures.
Our online-offline communities:
1. Peloponnese Living, a virtual city of 62,000 members - long stay in the off-season possible. Retreat organizers welcome in Paralio Astros. We can add senses & sciences to your program. We facilitate.
2. Abundance! Soil-Water - Greek olive, fruit, herb grove owners who want to learn about permaculture. Soil, water, energy methods. We work with the head forester of SUGi Projects, reforestation of arid soils, James. Read his profile and expertise.
3. Turn your Trauma into your Superpowers - with Elena Nazaroff. Local and online mentoring and retreats for midlife thriving. Inside into outside. Outside into inside. In Paralio Astros and online.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since many years, we helped many regional area economies to transition towards regeneration and ecology-economy. Growing macro-economies. Profitable businesses. And they all create multiple benefits for nature too.
Mainly in the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Spain, Greece, and Indonesia.
We make an ambitious vision. And use what is locally available. Our technology is mainly design. No machines.
No accumulation. Short chains.
We mentor university students and provide education and inspiration materials for Complexity & Simplicity.
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, Miyawaki method (urban planting, 10x faster regrowth), holo-homeopathy, seed to forest.
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Governance - laws, unconditional basic incomes with tokenization, AI for wildfire prevention and sea health. AR projects to bring archeology back to life.
Possible implementations are broad.
Some current projects (2024) are:
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Fire-Guardians - community activation - roll-out in Peloponnese
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Replanting after wildfires
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Health Tourism, Blue Zones, in Peloponnese, Greece. Filling the off-season for SMEs and teaching them how to market their way out of competition.
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Scaling Biorock (seacrete and seament) technology worldwide for increased pH value of the oceans, biodiversity, and coral restoration. Used in harbors for spillover effect
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Miyawaki Method permaculture (10x faster regrowth due to pocket planting). Urban forestry with SUGi Projects.
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Healthy buildings and profitable financing (real estate and finance)
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Ongoing redesign of the Dutch countryside with rewilding and autonomous living (off-grid) - 80 ha to date, several regenerative farms
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Economic area redesigns
Our human psychology projects (2024) are:
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Abundance! Gaia's Dialogues
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Books, journalism, social media inspiration
Past projects can be found on our projects page.
Regenerative River
Harbor Redesigns
in The Netherlands
Abundance! ALIVE! events
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