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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

I'm Desiree. I'm the professional face of Abundanism. After a long career in business (business unit manager in mobility, international B2B marketing manager in high tech, consultancy, education) I decided around 2012 to change course. I started studying ecological, holistic sustainability and a whole new world opened up for me.

Now I'm a systemic designer. Designing everything that is a complex system. We develop easy, simple methods to navigate complexity. Designing from the inside out with lots of scope. We always design open, living systems with a core and permeable skin so any system can interact with other systems.

My teachers are:

- Gaia herself

- Experts + experience in ecosystem restoration and ecologically intensified agroforestry to increase the carrying capacity of the earth

- Experts in Systemic Design and Blue Economy

- Experts in Biomimicry

- Experts in social and economic reform with the newest parallel systems (blockchain, Ethereum, Web3, etc.)

Have a look at my LinkedIn Profile to see what I'm up to nowadays.

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A Peek into Our Work

Blue Economy Expert at the EU Commission

Since 2019, Desiree does projects as an external expert for the EU Commission.

Although nature might seem always organic, it isn't. The combination of organic, inorganic, feedback loops and interconnected solutions with a strong awareness of nature will help us as an evolutionary species. We build cluster economies.

Board Member

Désirée is a board member at several organizations, such as BlueO2.

And IBI2, Institute for Sustainable Transitions and Biomimicry Innovations.

Have a look at her LinkedIn profile to see the current status of her involvement.

Healthy Building Network

From 2018-2022, Désirée is a partner in the Healthy Building Network. An Interreg-III project collaboration between The Netherlands & Germany. The consortium consists of companies, governments, and universities with an aim to create a healthy building environment full of innovation in North Limburg and Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Born Global Foundation
Davos 2022

Currently, Desiree is a story maker mentor with the impactful changemakers of the Born Global Foundation. A biomimicry-based group of thinkers and doers in Maine, Lebanon, France, South Africa, Egypt, and Costa Rica.

We are creating all kinds of practical projects with 3 E's. Ecology. Education. Employment. And telling the stories of systemic change and nature's laws.

In June 2022, we will be fueling a week of teaching and performances during the Global Biodiversity Forum in Davos.

Building
with Nature

In 2019/2020, Desiree and Mike gave talks at the Green School Bali and co-created in Indonesia.

Building with Nature Indonesia on Java was one of the projects.

Afterward, Desiree wrote a vision document for the consortium Building with Nature, Ecoshape. Based on interviews with experts in the water sector such as Wetlands International, Dutch Special Envoy for Water, Witteveen+Bos, Boskalis, Van Oord, Deltares, and Wageningen University.

Foundation Phien, Peppelhof Farm

As of 2013, Mike has been one of the pioneers of this innovative regenerative concept in the Dutch countryside. Creating food forests and building off-grid houses. Desiree joined the project in 2016.

This project is an inspiration for the current project Olive Bliss in Greece. Combining agroforestry with community bio labs. Including business models for regenerative farmers, olive oil makers, and healthy ecotourism.

Wild Olive Farming is the future for Greece. High phenolic content. Easy measurement systems. An EU health claim. All ingredients for a good future are available.

Vitalizing the local economy. Creating extra income streams and local production. Community bio fab labs. Business models based on margin and access. Crating scope for a healthy ecosystem of nature and humans together.

And lots of opportunities to create income and make the rural area vibrant again for young people to want to raise their families in.

Lectures
and
Talks

A few examples:

Green School Bali - Indonesia
Het Grootste Kennisfestival van Nederland - The Netherlands
University Maastricht
- The Netherlands
Strongly Sustainable Business Model Network - Canada
Balipara Foundation
- Eastern Himalayas
And many, many others...

Co-developing Regenerative Methods & Story Making

With organizations like:

Institute of Biomimicry Innovations
Born Global Inc. and Foundation
Gunter Pauli's thinktank ZERI (Zero Emissions Research Initiatives) and the Blue Economy
The Heroines
Bluehub

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