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2023 progress report Sustainocracy
The human world is under significant and dangerous stress. Yet the vast majority of people wish for a peaceful and harmonious existence. To achieve that, a lot will have to change. And that is exactly what most people have difficulty with. This is not only due to a lack of will, it is also because our behavior is conditioned by the way society functions. One leads to the other. This can only be broken if society-wide (i.e. everyone at the same time) is prepared to implement a mindset change. The City of Tomorrow (STIR Foundation) has been inviting us to do this since 2009, based on five essential values for our human existence. It creates an open space in which people and institutions are invited to proactively take responsibility together for the whole program, or regional sub-priorities and bottlenecks, based on those essential human values. 2023 was once again a special and challenging year, the first full year after the COVID restrictions. Download here the report of what has been done, with thanks to all the people and institutions who have contributed directly and indirectly.
City food security report
School of Talents is learning movement of the City of Tomorrow (STIR Foundation) in which students develop theories and new practical environments between our current fragile reality and the societal resilience provided by Sustainocracy.
Two students of Avans Highschool in Breda (Netherlands), Ibren and Fernando, joined the School of Talents to do their final year practical within environmental science. Their choice was to analyse the food resilience within cities and the need, potential and impediments of urban farming. Their report is highly inspirational and valuable for food labs, urban farming, technological innovation and governance. For STIR and the School of Talents the report is a solid foundation for establishing innovative circular food systems in the cities and develop new participative learning activities for new students. Here you find the index:
The management summary will be available free of charge. The full report is only available to the investors and sponsors of the School of Talents. People, business or governance that wish to engage into working on local food resilience can contact us.
The student Ibren will publically present and defend their findings in the School of Talents audience on August 14th at 15:00 in the aquaponics center of Eindhoven. Student Fernando wishes to continue the research for his own bachelor degree and expects to focus on the complexity of nutrients in circular city food systems.
If you wish to learn more you can contact Jean-Paul Close jp@stadvanmorgen.com
City food security
Our City of Tomorrow menu this week consisted of products produced entirely in the city of Eindhoven as part of the sustainocratic cocreation program referred to as FRE2SH (Food, Recreation, Education, Energy, Security and Health). We ate eatable flowers, trout, parsley, lettuce, mushroom, honey, etc. A much larger variety is being developed over time by using the available indoor and outdoor city space effectively everywhere in a sustainocratic cooperative for sustainable human progress and city resilience.
The Eindhoven city trout was delicious
Lettuce and flower beds while partner Ben Nas hosts the open day for public awareness
Food resilience is key in modern smart city development. Current food supplies may seem to provide abundance but the production and distribution worldwide is destroying our landscapes and climate. FRE2SH uses the 4 x Value ideology with Sustainocratic cooperation between citizens, local government, innovative entrepreneurship and applied science to produce high impact local sustainable progress:
- Value for the human being (healthy food, engagement, awareness, security, less financial dependence, better nutrician)
- Value for society (job development, resilience, effective usage of space, reduced mobility, less bureaucracy, quality food supplies, circular economies)
- Value for the environment (less air pollution, less destruction of landscape, reduce ecological footprint, cyclic reuse of waste)
- Integral economic value (reduces societal costs, profitability by connection consumption directly with production, integrated process, holistic city eco system, circular economy, new local value sharing systems)
This way of working in a city is referred to as peer 4 regional development or the participatory society. It combines awareness, education, growth and sustainable human progress in a powerfull multidisciplinary interaction.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 