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Making visible the invisible

The kick off of AiREAS in October 2012 marked a Milestone for me as founder of STIR and cofounder of AiREAS. It was satisfying to have been able to get to a multidisciplinary  format in which the core value of regional health was leading, not politics or economy. And everyone was taking responsibility together in a Sustainocratic way.

Now, after 3 years, we have installed the basic network and developed some time of experience observing and interpretating air pollution data in relation to our exposure to it. Making visible the invisible was our first mission so we could try to understand the health hazards we were dealing with. We called this phase 1.

This phase was wrapped up with this publication oftered to for inspiration through the global publishing channels of Springer. We offer it free of charge in open access in order to reach an as large as possible audience in the world since air pollution is a major threat demanding our attention at all levels of society.

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-26940-5

Enjoy! And hopefully you get inspired to do something with it.

Sustainocratic wishes

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Smart City Expo Barcelona 2015

I was invited to speak in Barcelona and enjoyed the visit back to the city where I grew up as teenager. The Smart City Expo was very well organized on a modern site that I remember geographically in a time of economic decline due to the disappearance of factories to low wage countries and the closure of local screwdriver operations in the early 90’s. Now I came to a modern city development of high rises and exposition buildings. Here you can watch a short video impression:

My own pitch had been placed in the session Society – Technology: driven tools and services for social well-being and aging populations

From minute 50 I talk 10 minutes about the core values and Sustainocracy

https://youtu.be/Z9QMieRhnmw?t=50m

At the end of the session journalists remarked that I had been the only one they had met during the entire Expo that had addressed the core human values rather than technology. I sincerely expect that next year there will be many more, as peer 4 societal development (Sustainocracy) will be recognized as evolutionary step to transform city’s vulnerability to innovative strength.