Desiree Driesenaar

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Join date: Jun 30, 2021

About

Together with Mike Harps, I'm the maker of this website. Together with many professors, scientists and professional change-maker friends we are the think-and-do-tank Abundanism. The words on this website are mine. The thoughts come from our collective intelligence. Aligned with Gaia.

At this moment, I'm working on the book Abundanism. A biomimicry book with many solutions for our time. Layered with exercises, poetry and rational explanations, it gives an overview of our professional experience. And gives ideas on how to redesign your life. And our human systems in line with our planet.

Adaptive species are thriving species...

And when I'm not writing or putting my hand in the soil to make a difference, I'm swimming in open water. Sea. Lakes. Rivers. I immerse myself in our planet. And enjoy.

Posts (25)

Jun 30, 2026 ∙ 5 min

Wildfire Solutions with AI-IoT-blockchains

Our journey into wildfires and freshwater saving started in 2023. I (Desiree) was asked to be a judge at the yearly Brussels AIOTI hackathon. Hackathons are sometimes real mathy geeky things for software developers, and in this case, it was too. Blockchain and crypto geeks. The topic was blockchains. The technology behind crypto. Blockchains are accountancy ledgers of datamining. They also call it DeFi. Decentralized Finance. And it is used for many economic change mechanisms. I first talked...

Jun 30, 2026 ∙ 2 min

Solutions to Microplastics Pollution

Everything is a design and with our Abundanism masterclass students we love to envision healthy futures and scale-up groundbreaking innovations. Our own journey has been a true journey. We became minimalists for abundance in 2012 and started designing projects, making ESG-consultancy reports full of interconnected solutions, and we scaled ecosystem restoration with education to ensure enough local resources and local economic activity. This was one of our masterclasses: Problem: microplastics...

Jun 30, 2026 ∙ 10 min

Improving Sciences with Superformula Patterning

Sciences and sustainability are in limbo. The gap between Biology, Newton and Quantum is a patterning gap. If everything is connected, HOW do we include the hidden patterns and the “longtails” in our new, smart-healthy city designs without losing ourselves in correlations? How can we compare apples with pears and still make it “right” in scientific truth finding? For applied sciences and healthy solutions, it is not such a problem. The pattern recognizing shows the “sting” and you can take...