I presentation I gave to the Green Party in Sweden on how to build a sustainable society taking nature as a source of inspiration.

1. Dr.Andrew Wallace PhD BEng(hons) EurIng

3.  Why?
 Nature as a holonic system
 Foundations
 The Design
 People
 Knowledge and ability
 Putting it all together
 Questions?

4.  Exponential growth
 Money - money - money!

5. Self destructive
Environmental destruction

7.  Are people stupid?
 It’s a mad world
 The court of public opinion has fools for a jury
 More complex
 People are clever but …
▪ Complexity
▪ Limits

8. Human evolution
Hunter gathers
Small groups
Intuitive ideas
▪Work well day to day but are
wrong!

9.  Limits
Time
Knowledge
 Education

10.  Nature as a highly complex system
 Nothing exists in true isolation
 Networks
 Web of life
 Everything interconnected
 Things make other things
 Balance

11.  Holon – “part – whole”
 Cells:
Body Organs Cells Organelles molecules
Lego!!

12.  Handling complexity
Simplify
Divide and conquer

13. Nature doesn’t care!
Nature is a harsh mistress
Limits
We do care!

14.  Take nature as a source of inspiration
 Work with nature not against nature
 A fair and just system for all
 Goal :
Highest standard of living for the
longest time possible

15.  Work with people
 People have areas that they know
well
 Not everything has a right answer
 People - knowledge and ability
 Distribute power
 A holonic system (emulate nature)
 localise

17.  One person’s utopia is another’s dystopia
 Let people be people

18.  Communities (up to 200 people)
 Manage own waste
 Manage own energy production
 Manage own food production
 Has a little bit extra

20.  Diversity
 Own government – legislative council (direct
democracy)
 Each community manages its own affairs
 Limits
 Basic human rights
 Urbanates
 Sustainable cities
 Networks of networks

22. Minimise work
Minimise production
More time to be human!

23.  Build around what people know and can do
 Projects
 Project leaders
 Goals
 Communications
 Localise – holonic structure
 Push upwards - dynamic

27.  Keeping it all together
 Directors
 Goals
 Communications
 Sequences
 skeleton

29.  Managing resources (no money)
 Nature and energy flows
Exergy
Energy In Energy out

30.  Exergy measures
 Usable energy
 Material
 Information
 Differences in the environment
 Common accountancy unit

31.  How much can we make (in a given timer
period)?
 How much exergy do we need?
 Each person has equal share – energy credit

32. Will it work?
Testing, testing, testing!
Proto-technate
Network of communities