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Urban forestry
What will be our future reality? More people in urban environments? Or will people start escaping urban gettos and speculative prices to join smaller communities in rural environments? In both cases local forestry is key. These documents on YouTube explain why urban forestry is do important and people do already in this field…
- Sustainable Energies part 1 – Vancouver in Canada
- Sustainable Energies part 2 – Delhi in India
- Sustainable Energies part 3 – Milano in Italy, vertical forests
From Sustainocracy point of view the urban development with trees is indeed a great step forward. It is a pitty though that we have been destroying nature so much that we need to recover it in the weirdest environments, trying to play God. We seem to want to “plan” these urban ecosystems while having to deal with the numerous surprises that nature holds for us in the process. In our own environment we already saw fallen trees (safety hazzards) due to storms, massive insect pests around apartment buildings, plants dying on vertical buildings, etc. The obvious benefits of plants are huge but they bring other challenges.
We encourage citizen’s engagement in their own environment, espcially developing living green in their gardens, local streets and neighborhoods. In larger parks and spaces we develop food forests where we allow plants, insects and animals to interact in an as natural way as possible. The living green acts as social integrator, food supply, healthy air, learning environment and form of positive energy.
Transforming economies through sustainocratic glocalization
Examples of the emerging new human world.
Glocalization gives meaning to resolving local issues within an global context. We also see this in one of the many drawings reflecting the transformation economy, or the “economies of change” based on localized priorities such as poverty, air quality, food scarcity, social cohesion, etc.
Sustainocracy provides contextual meaning to the whole image by focussing on our human resilience as a species based on our shared responsibilities for our core natural human values. Our global awareness moves away from political financial dominance, a leading tradition of human dependence on institutions that developed over time, destructively at the expence of our natural environment. We are painfully becoming aware that our natural environment is key for our sustainable wellness as a species.
This is demanding us to take back our responsibilities as human communities and deal directly with our local priorities of wellness driven productivity in close symbiotic harmony with our natural environment.
The industrial and intelligence eras have provided us with a lot of (scientific) knowledge of our physical reality with technological instruments to support us. These were mostly directed at creating our dependence. Now they need to be redesigned to support our regional self sufficiency issues. Our Earthbeat partner Youth4Planet is collecting video messages from all over the world that show this way forward from a climate awareness point of view:
Many other initiatives are also developing around care for and with eachother, changing our behavior and redesign of rural and city function’s through health and environmental quality. Examples:
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 