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We are Desiree and Mike. And we are on a journey. Sharing our wisdom as grandparents on a mission. How Nature will create all evolutionary solutions... Feel invited to join us. Surfing the waves of change.
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From Mechanical Design to Natural Math: The Möbius Heart
Official illustrations from research gate. Search for helical heart Torrent Guasp and Gielis Superformula Dear friends and colleagues, We have been on a path of paradigm shifts and innovation designs for health and healthy environments for some time now. I have joined this joint journey in 2012. My path has not been linear, I got sidetracked and confused by personal stuff (illness, personal loss, mourning) and also by the illness that kills us all. Complexity overloads. Lost
My Path Unfolds in Front of My Feet. Do You Have That Too?
15 years ago I started my dance for abundance. I had had a dream which in fact proved to be a foreshadow. I would work in sustainability and ecosystem restoration. Carbon soils financed by carbon credits. Water retention and water cycle health. But it wouldn't stop at that. I would find full paradigm change. Healthy buildings with return on investment (ROI) in Year 0. Planet People Full-Profit. But you only see these things in hindsight. Now, I'm finaly making time to knot ou
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
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From Mechanical Design to Natural Math: The Möbius Heart
Official illustrations from research gate. Search for helical heart Torrent Guasp and Gielis Superformula Dear friends and colleagues, We have been on a path of paradigm shifts and innovation designs for health and healthy environments for some time now. I have joined this joint journey in 2012. My path has not been linear, I got sidetracked and confused by personal stuff (illness, personal loss, mourning) and also by the illness that kills us all. Complexity overloads. Lost
Desiree Driesenaar
4 days ago6 min read
My Path Unfolds in Front of My Feet. Do You Have That Too?
15 years ago I started my dance for abundance. I had had a dream which in fact proved to be a foreshadow. I would work in sustainability and ecosystem restoration. Carbon soils financed by carbon credits. Water retention and water cycle health. But it wouldn't stop at that. I would find full paradigm change. Healthy buildings with return on investment (ROI) in Year 0. Planet People Full-Profit. But you only see these things in hindsight. Now, I'm finaly making time to knot ou
Desiree Driesenaar
4 days ago3 min read
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
Desiree Driesenaar
Jun 305 min read
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: Probl
Desiree Driesenaar
Jun 302 min read
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” an
Desiree Driesenaar
Jun 3010 min read
How to Design a Smart-Healthy Town of Infinite Abundance
7 colors = very practical = 6 directions and number 7 = time Designing a smart-healthy town of abundance is no rocket science. You design water absorption, you design light reflection so it doesn't burn. You design with photovoltaic cells and turn them toward the sun at a certain time. You use blue resonance to harvest also the light reflection. You choose edible plants everywhere and choose the smells in such a way that humans like it and mosquitoes and ats will be repelled.
Desiree Driesenaar
May 264 min read
Why Biomimicry?
Our planet spins already 5 billion years very fast in a universe. And we are glued inside with magnetic powers and nano-hairs. Van der Waals powers is the technical term. Gecko's do it too. They can walk on ceilings. But we walk on ceilings too. Because we spin! Why aren't our cheeks wobbly with G-power winds? Well we are IN the planet. And our ear-brain-connection keeps up upright. Our planet make everything from light (photosynthesis) and sound. And Mike and I are curious b
Desiree Driesenaar
Mar 305 min read
Understanding Abundanism Principles in Consulting for Environmental Solutions
Imagine a world where nature and economy don’t just coexist but thrive together in a beautiful dance of abundance. Sounds dreamy, right? Well, that’s exactly what abundanism is all about. It’s a fresh, hopeful approach to solving environmental challenges by designing systems that regenerate nature while boosting local economies. Today, I want to take you on a journey through the core ideas of abundanism principles in consulting and how they can transform the way we think abou
Desiree Driesenaar
Dec 22, 20254 min read
Nature-Based Solutions Life
In 2002, I came into regeneration, nature-based solutions, holistic sustainability, biomimicry, and system dynamics. What a mouth full! Why do we make the choices we make as sustainable innovators? Well, we all have different backgrounds, some more technical than others. Most people have a hard time understanding, because they know little about biology, physics, economy or good/bad technologies. Let alone what happened in our industrial era that's too toxic. And what is lucki
Desiree Driesenaar
Dec 21, 202510 min read
Summer Water in My Ears
Honoring the first book of my good friend on the same regenerative path I walk on. Ina Matijevic. Remember that name. Story from the Other Side.
Desiree Driesenaar
Dec 20, 20251 min read
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