Decision Making Models

Desiree Driesenaar
Nov 13
5 min read

Modelling for Multiple Value - Planet-People-Profit

Two new papers were temporarily free of charge and if you book a call, you can still get them for free. Harbor Regeneration and 2-earn blockchain models for anti-fire, anti-corrosion

We like to stack value on value...

Simple Complexity Modelling

What is it, why is it important to Design by Nature? Well, there's human health to consider. And we all know that accumulation is the biggest system flaw that becomes toxic. TOO MUCH uniformity is always toxic. Diversity is Key. In the industrial centuries, we only did megalomaniac, so C, the creative solutions are always local, diversity where one uses another's waste, and designed from small to big like an ecosystem. Small pods, interconnected.

How will the business models be, you ask? With multiple income streams, some niches with high margins, and sometimes with block-chained carbon credits or blue bonds in the model.

How will the government models be, you ask? Small government. Lean. First time right by Design. If you want to prevent institutional racism and debt, you will design for no names (anonymous or temporary - principles of nature) and no triggering bias in the users of systems. No debt means: non-linear designs and always anchor the payout of benefits. Never ask money back! People will not have it. It will be an accumulated debt. People are not future-thinkers. We should organize that in the systems. Tokenization and blockchains can do a lot of this with DeFi.

Decentralized Finance. Peer2Peer systems.

We once even discussed with renowned professor Bernard Lietaer (part of the euro team) how to make the digital money unconditional basic income for basic needs. We all saw back then, at the start of blockchains and crypto the huge potential for systems change. No rent. No energy bills. In the papers no homelessness, 2-earn blockchains, and harbor regeneration, you'll see a few of these examples mentioned.

No debt - change interest into demurrage in the system
No rent - Stichting Phien does it in Limburg, The Netherlands. An intergenerational finance concept of interest-free-loan paid back over 50-100 years. Around 100 euro per month. People build the off-grid houses (hugely innovative with smart-grids and hybrid energy sources) themselves in community.
No energy bill - another example in Limburg, The Netherlands. In a Rhombus Sustainable report we wrote the synergy for harbors together - we worked with IBI2 Institute for Biomimicry Tech Innovations and Arcadis on this one. Maximized on Abundant energy is created in a river harbor - no windmills, no solar parks, but thermodynamics in sheet pile walls of the canals and local biomass/biogas for a farmer business model of their organic waste. In local smaller biodigesters.
No Homelessness. We wrote another report, including business model and consortium keys, about soil, water, nitrogen and enough homes for a consortium this summer. "Boeren, Bouwen & Blockchains". It is used for funding purposes at EU and at our own Dutch government, but the business model for after subsidy has been written by us too. Full of Nature Solutions for the nitrogen problems of our country. Just like carbon has fixers, nitrogen has fixers too. And when you fix it for decades in a building using material passports for circular economy, you can draw carbon credits and blue bonds into your farmer and builder's business models. Dutch precision-farmers and builders have ambitious visions to fix our country's problems. We do not have a strong government, so groups of ambitious entrepreneurs do it themselves. No use waiting!

Decision Making with Biology

If you are a leader or want to be a leader, it is hugely important that you transform your own bias and see more. You have to fill in the C - the alternatives, don't you? Or you have to lead the diversity team that fills in the alternatives in C.

How can you become more creative and less boxed? Well, the past generations were forbidden - in my country at least - to write with their left hand. We all became right-handed and left-brained. So, if you start to brush your hair with left, drive another route to your work, change your habits, walk backward when you get stuck in think-loops, you will get better and better at seeing all the options of a full spectrum. 1000+ interconnected solutions, we say at Abundance.

If you doubt what's healthy, you now have Academic AI and you can find the nuances. Learn to ask the right questions! It's surprising what you will find because nature is not linear.

Example:

AI glyphosate - a hormone influencer that will not help if you want your country to be non-gender-free and keep a bit of fertility in humans. Everybody blames the farmers and Roundup. But look for glyphosate-like substances that appear automatically from washing liquids during the drinking water process.

If you want to make new governance or business models or whatever for prevention, no hormone-influences and abundance of fertility, you can fill in many things in C.

Close the sewer systems against anti-conception pill-peeing and "clean at the source" - that's a nature's principle. Cleaning can be done naturally (that's called halophyte filtering with grit and plants) or with whatever else you come up with. You can patent your findings. It solves a problem! Closing the sewer systems has another advantage for NO microplastics. A big stream comes from washing synthetic clothes. In this case you can also patent sonar system cleaning of clothes. Washing without water. It has been done in Schiedam in the 1990s but the time was not ripe for it. Now the time is ripe and you can draw blue bonds into your business model and financing system.
Non-linear drinking water production. NO extraction of groundwater (cities will sink) and NO surface water (too polluted by microplastics). What else is there? In coastal areas you can go to desalination. get all minerals out and add new fresh minerals to the water. In Spain, they used biomimetics to reach nearly the theoretical minimum (1.7 kW/h per 1 m3 water). In the Australian desert, they chose condensation. Making freshwater from temperature difference.

Nature's Math

For all these tech solutions and Design by Nature ways, you do need a bit of math and geometry. Spatial relations.

To make it simpler, we only have 2 kinds of math in our Gaia-planet. Cylindrical math with a membrane (a step) in between. And Moebius Math of direct transformations. You see this last one appear a lot in our papers and education, since it is the clou for how biology does things 80% different than mechanical engineering does. Living Systems.

Even if you have dead materials like rock or iron. In modern times, the antennas of smart cities for WiFi and energy are made with it and sonar waves are modelled like dolphin's communication. The Rope Models of biomimicry.

Cleaning, transport and exchange in one energy-efficient data-model. It is used now for healthy city-designs with wetlands and still no malaria. We like that kind of abundance... It is also used by visionary architecture teams in Germany for towers shaped like cactuses. Renovation into healthy buildings with just 2 membranes and opening up the shapes inside. Powered off-grid with piezo-electronics and the pressure of the roof if done by Polytecnico Torino teams.

We will write more about these built-environment beauties soon.

The circular economy has matured since Ellen Mc Arthur started her closed-ship-autonomous visions. Design by Nature has matured since the 1990s. Design by Nature has not many mysteries anymore. So, let's implement what we know and make some healthy systems.

If you need mentoring, you are always welcome to book a call on Futurist Fridays. Because we are not pensioners yet, there's still time to learn from the giant shoulders we stood on and who have died in the meantime. Happy redesiging, dear friends.

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