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H ealing our
human, environmental and economic
resilience
W elln ess
con tin u u m
ST IR Fo u n dat i o n
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Life in Nature is always healthy. Unhealthy elements die and are
replaced by new and healthy alternatives. If humankind produces
unhealthy situations through pollution out of political or economic
tolerance we eventually accept our own replacement by nature....
Nature inspires creativity based on core natural and human values.
How a simple change of words can heal
for sustainable human progress.......
Care for health
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Introduction
Societal Context
Human being
Economic resilience
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I n t r o d u ct io n
The definition of the Continuum of Care refers to ?the
delivery of health care over a period of time, and may
refer to care provided from birth to end of life. Health
care services are provided for all levels and stages of
care?. Health-care has become a multi-trillion money
dependent business and governance?s core instrument
of authority.
At the same time we have to deal with the
consequences of a societal context that produces an
unhealthy environment due to the effects of our social,
political and economic dependence on fossil fuels, auto
mobility, industrialization, logistics, etc. We react to our
collective behavior through the ?treatment paradigm? ,
a societal reactive attitude to our mainstream culture of
destruction, repairing damage only once it affects us.
This we then economized by structuring the Care
Continuum and regulated expensively through
bureaucracy.
Proactive change is needed, recognized by climate
scientists, proof of excessive pollution around the globe
and political expressions of urgency expressed by 195
countries in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Costly remedial
regulations and technological innovations do not heal
the unbalance. Instead of the reactive health care we
need to collectively care for health in a proactive
manner.
After production and consumption we economized
the treatment of the consequences of such
paradigm. Then we realized that our human core
values are based on health, not curing sickness.
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Cont inuum of Care
Nature's core values for life are health, safety,
adaptiveness, awareness and basic needs (food, air, water
and energy). Naturally the human core values are too!
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To heal our human relationship with ourselves and
our environment we need to evolve rapidly from the
reactive treatment paradigm into the one proactively
based on the pursuit of integral wellness through the
recognition of our core natural and human values.
This simple but very relevant choice represents a
new and very positive societal context as introduced
in this whitepaper. It is the result of ongoing societal
experiments in Eindhoven (Netherlands) with
Sustainocracy, a democracy based on core human
values, published worldwide and accredited as level 4
regional development.
The Continuum of Care excellence
The Continuum of Care, within the ?treatment
paradigm?, has gone through a tremendous
development of knowledge, health instruments and
medical technologies. The resulting longevity of
people provide the proof of progress. The definition
of this Continuum of Care starts at the neutral point
of the illustration below as soon as signs are detected
for preventive needs of health care. A whole chain of
services is organized between early detection,
prevention all the way up to end of life support
services.
The Continuum of Care is an expensive remedial
solution to illnesses produced to a great extent
by our own misuse of people and our
environment.
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The neutral point is a highly significant psychological
position. It refers to the lack of perceived illnesses or
wellness. Most people only become aware of their health
and the aspect of wellness when it disappears due to
sickness or personal problems, not while they enjoy it. Our
societal reality has developed in exactly the same way. We
only deal with our problems when they appear, we don't
anticipate them. The exponential expansion of our human
presence on this planet has brought us face to face with
unprecedented issues that we have been trying to deal with
in our traditional reactive manner. Meanwhile we try to
remain doing "business as usual".
The treatment paradigm is not delivering anymore the
solutions that we need to sustain human progress. The
amount of issues to deal with are growing exponentially
giving us the feeling that we are mopping with the taps open.
The neutral point has disappeared and overall concern is now
growing that premature death is threatening our
communities and even our existence. In order to address our
sustainable progress as a species the treatment paradigm
does not suffice anymore. Awareness and education bring us
to redefine our leadership from a reactive attitude into a
proactive one. Instead of doing business as usual with trust
in the Continuum of Care we need to convert our business as
usual into the Continuum of Wellness. It is not health-care
that matters but care for health.
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Neutral point
The treat ment paradigm
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One of the challenges we encounter when changing
from a treatment to a wellness driven structure is the
economized power still resident in the old neutral
point "business as usual" attitude of old self-interests.
Also the effects of an economized health care service
show that preventive and remedial services are
introduced as early as one arguably can out of
economic interests. A director of a Dutch health
insurance company stated that ?a healthy person is
one that has not been looked at sufficiently?. Another
consequence of the financial interests covered by this
Continuum of Care is that many institutions develop
self interest in the field of illnesses. A well known
research foundation on health problems stated ?we
don?t produce health, we repair illnesses.?
This shows an economized culture within the Continuum of Care that identifies itself with the remediation of problems rather than with
their potential contribution to heal. A sick person is a market for the continuum while a healthy person is not. We can ask ourselves to
what extend the economic interests in the Neutral Point and subsequently the Continuum of Care contribute to sustaining and even
enhancing the care need rather than trying to eliminate it? Wat is leading in the Continuum, human health or the desire to develop the
market of curing?
There will of course always be a need for specialized care as illnesses, accidents and age related deteriorations will persist. The
Continuum of Care is always relevant in any societal context. But from an evolutionary perspective the question is not how to cure
illnesses but how to sustain health. In Sustainocracy the claim is that ?In Nature every life-form is healthy. If not it dies and is eaten by
another healthier one. The cycle of life in Nature is always producing health and resilience, not curing illnesses?. When considering the
social, ecological and economic importance of health and an healthy environment we can relate them not just to individual wellness
but also to human productivity, engagement, joy, recreation, social cohesion, creativity, resilience, etc. Overall the arguments to care for
health are in every aspect more powerful than our old attitude to wait for illnesses to act. Within a family scenario we tend to educate
and protect our children with adult wisdom around health and safety risks, why should it be different in our societal leadership?
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Con text
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Ever since human beings started dominating fire a huge
productive development and geographic expansion of
the species has been witnessed. At the same time
pollution, caused by the burning processes, had started
and affected the species and its surroundings. The global
presence of human activities was however too small to
claim a noticeable effect on the climate or our
environment. Nature itself produces enormous life
threatening pollutants through volcanic activities and
other natural phenomena. The human activity remained
insignificant for a very long time, affecting primarily itself.
When global trade started, after logistics had become
possible with sea and river vessels or road transport, the
gathering of people around harbor and market places
became exponential. Cities developed as the speculative
centers of trade. Industrialized productivity further
attracted people to these communities too. These
developed strongly around the money based systems
which facilitated effectively the interaction between
consumption and labor contributions. These vastly
growing conglomerates of people disconnected totally
from the original interaction with nature in the rural
communities. In rural environments the basic daily needs
such as food, water, energy and a place to live were
obtained by direct interaction with the natural
surroundings, without money.
In the context of a city such means were only accessible
through theft, gifts or the economy of trade, not through
direct productivity. The two human worlds, city and rural,
had significant differences in relating between people,
institutions, resources and the environment.
The Societal Context refers to the way we
structure our society, our culture, our priorities
and the way institutions interact between
themselves and with people.
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Hist oric logic
Harmony is not a status quo, it is an continuous
interaction between growth, chaos and
(awareness driven) adaptation.
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In the Dutch semantics we developed two words to define
success in reference to the two worlds, city and rural based
cultures:
* trade well (welvaren): the speculative risks of dealing with
trade and the value of shortages
*farm well (goed boeren): the planned interaction with
nature to produce abundance
Over time the city based model became dominant worldwide
and gradually industrialized also the food production, water
and energy supplies. The money based interaction between
the institutions and general public became also the key
instrument to create reactive services like the Continuum of
Care.
Care developed as a remedial service and addressed care in
the same way as structured industrial processes deal with
repairs. Access to remedial care became equally based on
money, just like food or other basic needs, not a
humanitarian sense of responsibility. It is a product within
economic market mechanisms.
In city based communities money has become leading, with
public investments in services such as infrastructures,
housing, entertainment and health care. City management
evolved around institutional and financial interest only. The
human being was instrumental to such interests with
healthcare and education to assure optimal human
interaction with the institutional self interests.
Growth has been the main driver for stability as it would
produce a continuous flow of new labor opportunities and
related economic processes. Cities are for nearly 100%
dependent on resources from outside their boundaries to
cover the basic needs of their populations and industrial
processes. The global system of industrialized supplies
provided a continuous flow of perceived abundance against a
price. The origin of this availability and possible
consequences for the climate and planet were not
necessarily of the city's concern. It was of no one's concern
because the fragmented chain of activities had no overall
claim on responsibilities that we still out of the sight of our
collective awareness.
In Dutch two words define success from totally different
view points
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Meanwhile the rural based interaction with nature had
largely disappeared and was replaced by industrialized
mass production of our basic needs using our soil and
environment for economic efficiency not cyclic natural
productivity. As the global human population grows
exponentially, in decades rather than millenniums, the
consequences of this evolution on our environment
become painfully evident. We lost our self aware
connection with our environment and grew into the 6th
cause of mass elimination of lifeforms on Earth ever
since the existence of life on this planet. Over decades
governments have tried to remediate this unbalance by
introducing expensive regulations and control
mechanisms which resulted in expensive bureaucratic
structures for control. No one can be held solely
responsible for the destructive forces of our historically
justified culture. Locally we only had remedial options
through the treatment paradigm.
The latest city development is therefore focused on
investments in technologies that define the modern
?Smart City? and help optimize city management even
further yet again with an extra layer of costs.
The tension between the desire to harmonize our
relationship with our environment and the economized
growth patterns, both needed to sustain the existing
human populations and systems, put pressure on the
societal context.
One of the measurable effects can be seen in the
Continuum of Care. The costs of society are growing
exponentially both at the side of citizen's expenses and
government. The human productivity is in decline
through automated process, lean cost optimization and
reduced labor requirements. The main remaining
motors of the economy are found in speculative
activities that generate even more social differences
among the people, debt development of cities and
citizens, demand for care, and capital injections that try
to sustain instruments in detriment. The overall picture
in this societal context is one of growing negative stress
and a continuous threat of collapse. The political and
economic remedial mechanisms within the old societal
context don?t seem to produce the necessary relief
anymore. The exponential growth of the issues are
seriously endangering all progress.
The overall picture is one of growing negative
stress and a continuous threat of collapse.
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Change of State
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In mathematics, physics and biology a point of singularity
represents a dot on the line of an exponential growth curve
where further growth has become impossible. When such
point is reached then the exponential growth either collapses
or a change of state is perceived. Such change of state can
either be observed as the explosion into fractal miniatures of
the original, or the appearance of a totally new physical state.
The latter connects in a totally different way with the
surroundings and starts a new growth curve.
Within STIR the understanding developed that within the
evolution of lifeforms this phenomenon is also relevant to
species that outgrow their size in such a way that they cannot
sustain themselves through the feeding mechanisms that
produced their exponential growth. They either collapse into a
population size that is within the limits of the available
resources, or the species develops adjustments to a lifestyle
that fits new feeding mechanisms within a new area of
abundance. Humankind has reached such point. In this
whitepaper we claim the change of state from remedial health
care to generalized care for health.
Competition for resources is then avoided and a new period of growth can be enjoyed. The human species is showing signs of both
collapse and adjustments. When our self aware consciousness demands us to make a choice then the vehicle of adjustments produces
better evolutionary perspectives than collapse or the effort to try to sustain the past. Only the unaware seem to be affected by a
collapse because they had no time or wit to adjust. But if adjustments are needed to provide sustainable human progress, what
adjustments would that be?
Economies respond in the same way.
Once a market is saturated there are no growth
mechanisms anymore for that product or service. When
more than three competitors tend to feed economically
from the same market definition their competition
develops into value detriments due to cost optimization
processes and market shake outs up to a level that one or
more competitors collapse, are being absorbed by others
or a disruptive innovation takes over. In the process the
fragmented survival mechanisms of the parties involved
leave destruction in their vicinity caused by their blind
battle against collapse.
This we see happening in the global competitive world of
industrialized processes. Survival mechanisms of the
industries and money dependent governance has grown
in dominance over the ethical reflection of the
consequences of such choices. Many participants in these
processes are blind for the points of singularity that they
approach and focus on upholding their status rather than
considering a change of state. The consequences on the
natural surroundings grow now exponentially too,
developing points of singularity of their own. One of such
points is the potential elimination of the human species
itself, or at least a huge collapse of the societal context in
which we developed ourselves for a long time.
Management of processes is blind for change and only
tends to take responsibility for optimization and growth of
the same as usual. The purpose of life is awareness and
the ability to adjust in accordance in order to produce
sustainable progress. This we refer to a "leadership", the
ability to anticipate, to make visible the invisible, to take
responsibility for change as only constant for sustainable
progress. Global management routines demand business
as usual while trusting remedial care to repair any
damages. Leadership demands the change of societal
context and the state of human and institutional
interaction as our point of singularity has been reached.
Care for health is justified and produces a new wave of
sustainable progress, economic resilience and wellness as
well as growth.
The purpose of life is awareness while change is the
only sustainable constant.
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STIR places the Continuum of Care experimentally
within the new leading state of a societal context called
Sustainocracy, based pro-actively on ?care for health?
as evolutionary complementary and necessary societal
function to remedial ?health care?. This simple change
of state of the societal context, from health care to care
for health, leads to a healing process of the local
economy, social cohesion and long term productivity,
with a positive human health evolution. It also has a
huge impact on the way human beings, institutions and
governance interact to sustain and develop such core
values and its spin-offs within the systems of care,
education and economic development.
A change of state corresponds to the law of opposites,
the change of polarity witnessed when passing through a
particular point in a continuum. This characteristic is not
just known in astronomy, also in molecular behavior, the
string theory and finds an analogy in economic cycles. It
does not affect the material composition of the element,
just its resonance with its surroundings. The same
mechanisms are used in business initiatives that produce
new market leadership perspectives by addressing an
opposite energetic positioning to a market leading
organization. Examples are: a car versus a horse, large
mainframe against mini computer systems, fast versus
slow postal services, blue versus red label cola?s, remedial
health care versus proactive care for health.
Every point of singularity reveals an opposite that produces
relief and a new wave of progress.
The polarity change of the societal context, from remedial
health care to care for health, does not immediately
affect the people and institutions within society as they
remain functioning as usual. They all start to resonate
with the health demand judging their own contribution to
the solution or the old problem. A self regulating
mechanism then takes care of the healing process within
society as participants adjust their behavior according to
the new energetic resonance within their surroundings.
Those who adjust survive and grow, those who can- or
do-not adjust disappear according to the laws of nature.
New initiatives also start populating the economic and
societal eco-system, producing a new wave of progress
without the stress of the old paradigm.
The most important resources of a community are
its citizens.
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The natural human being as
source of innovation
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Each human being is the linking connection between natural
core values that successfully evolved over 4 billion years and
the structured human systems of productivity, economies,
education and care. The human being can be seen as producer
and consumer with an unprecedented growth of massive
global presence. On this human characteristic we can base
politics and economies of scale developed by financial
mechanisms. At the same time the human molecular
composition within mechanisms of life?s evolution makes us a
member of the variety of species populating the planet, subject
to the mass destruction caused by pollution and misuse of our
environment. The integral human complexity is hence a
powerful source of inspiration to look for sustainable human
progress. In many communities the human being is becoming
recognized as the main resource for sustainable progress, not
material resources, money or institutionalized initiatives.
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Within Sustainocracy the hum an being has the
freedom , wit and creat ivit y t o overcom e any
challenge through clustered cocreation.
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Polarity change
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The market of health care is now a subset of the integral Wellness
Paradigm while societal costs transform into societal engagement and
shared responsibilities. The human being and our sustainable
evolutionary progress as a species becomes the center of attention, with
health as one of the natural leading triggers for innovation and progress.
The main change of this new societal context and its polarity switch is
the positioning of the human being at the center of all operational
attention rather than our political and economic interaction with our
material surroundings. The new resonance gradually affects every
element of society as a natural process of evolution.
It is interesting to note that such change of polarity at first was thought
to be a voluntary choice with the need to persuade other people and
institutions to participate. After a while it shows as a natural process of
change that accelerates when we reflect about its benefits as in this
White paper. The process of change involves both the awareness
breakthrough and the need to overcome our long term connectivity to
the old resonance. ?Letting go? is then an energetic issue of perceived old
emotional comforts that grow obsolete but temporarily blind or block us
from accepting the new resonance. In terms of mental shifts the pain of
letting go is experienced as a personal or institutional drama with the
tendency to blame our surroundings of our suffering in an attempt to
sustain the unsustainable. On the other hand, once we let go, the
engagement with the new resonance fulfills us with a sense of liberation,
opportunity and growth.
This White paper, from a human emotional and rational point of view, is hence a proof of concept of a new societal context that is real,
comfortable, full of growth perspectives and simply subject to old societal dependencies and structures to let go and overcome their fears.
The simple acceptance of Care for Health as a leading instrument for one?s own resonance within a new reality, whether personal or as
professional representative of an institution, takes care of the integral transformation towards the new environment of infinite growth.
The same laws of the opposite that apply to the point of singularity also affect the
structuring of society. Our old resonance with money driven systems had created a
interrelationship between people and institutions, and institutions with institutions,
based on the exchange of money. None of the fragmented entities in the chain of
economic relationships could be made responsible solely for the damaging effects that
brought us to the points of singularity. None of them individually could be held
accountable of pollution or social detriment as the societal context justified and even
rewarded their behavior. The parts where accountability was feasible became subject to
regulation while the consequences found a solid remedial representation in the
treatment paradigm within the Continuum of Care.
Within the paradigm switch, as an effect of the polarity change, we see that the
fragmented money based interaction does not apply anymore because all together are
held responsible for the contribution to health. Instead of repairing what we break we
try to avoid breaking it, not by not using whatever we need but by safeguarding its
reuse for the long term. This does not just apply to our material needs in terms of a
circular economy, it also applies to our natural habitat and resources that cover our
basic needs (food, drinking water, healthy air and protective warmth). In the new
resonance with a different, core values driven reality, we see dynamic, multidisciplinary
human and institutional clusters appear that address issues together in an innovative
way. The clusters contain typically the four functional pillars of society shown here....
Change of Stat e invites
everything and everyone
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Pillar of
Society Perspective
Local governm ent Infrastruct ures
and public m eans
Local cit izens Cult ure and
behavioral
engagement
Ent repreneur ship Productivit y and
creat ion
Science and
educat ion
Know ledge and
knowledge sharing
The new interaction is based on values driven co-creation
with the individual engagement of talent, time and energy,
as person or institutional representation. This process is
project driven within the new societal resonance while
producing proof of progress at every clustered event.
Clusters of interaction are relevant to the priorities ad
project's defined. They dissolve again when the projects
have finalized. Since the efforts in this process engage both
citizens and a diversity of institutions it received the
denomination of ?participation society?. The dynamic
clustering process became known as the ?awareness driven
eco-system?. From a historical perspective this invitation to
get involved into values driven processes has been sensed
as a new layer of regional development, on top of the
existing layers of the old paradigm, not a replacement.
In the old, underlying paradigm the involvement in societal
processes, based on political and economic directives, was
rewarded with money and measured also in money based
deliverables. The new layer does not make engagement
accountable in terms of money in and money out. It is
more complex and defines itself from the perspective of
investment of resources (money, talent, time, energy,
infrastructures, technology, etc) and reciprocity in the
shape of new values in a variety of forms (new policies,
products, services, health, value of the house, knowledge,
awareness, harmony, social innovation, social cohesion,
care savings, wellness, improved environmental quality,
trust, etc). Each of those new values can find its destiny
again in new waves of economic growth and political
standpoints.
Layer 4 regional developm ent
The extra layer is considered by all involved to be an
evolution that places the historical old paradigm in
perspective with the new. The evolution is hence seen as
progressive rather than disruptive, despite the intense
sense of change experienced by all the participants. The
new resonance has relieved the stress off the old paradigm
in anticipation of one or more points of singularity, opening
up to a new reality full of opportunities and progressive
growth. The three layers that support the fourth become
necessary elements, including those people already
involved in the management and maintenance of those
layers.
The emerging world of Sustainocratic participative
leadership.
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Level 4
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The fourth layer starts to interact with the
underlying three, producing a progressive
process of innovation based on the new
resonance. Over time the entire
community transforms while most people
involved act within the new resonance as if
it has always been this way. For them the
changes are not experienced as change
but business as usual. In fact, for 99% of
the population the changes are a natural
progression and lay no significant claim on
their awareness or rational thinking
patterns. Their behavior transforms
gradually within the energetic resonance
of the new era and the positive invitation
of the surroundings.
Initiating such new societal context is
however a leadership, not a democratic
issue. It was car manufacturer and
entrepreneur Ford who said about this: ?If
I had asked society what they expected
from innovation in mobility they would
have wanted a faster horse?.
Our current democratic systems, within the political economic reality of the old societal context through self interests contained in political
party definitions, leave little room for the type of leadership represented by industrials like Ford. Such leadership of change through product
innovations is traditionally reserved for entrepreneurial activities and reactively followed by politicians. Politicians tend to expect this still of
business development and spend buckets full of money on subsidies for such developments. They do not dispute their own contribution to
the global problems through the democratic characteristics to create hierarchies of greed. The change of state is primarily a societal issue,
not an industrial one. Level 4 is therefor committed to the core human values and not anymore to party political or economic directives. This
causes temporary stress among those who claim authority still in politics or economics rather than level 4 shared responsibility. The core
human values are however so powerfully recognized that new contextual leadership will rapidly replace the old.
Eco n om i c
Resi l i en c e
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One of the impediments of the old era to accept the invitation of a new one is the self interest of sustaining the past. The point of
singularity is often dismissed through negation and hence the invitation is put aside. As long as anyone (person or institution) has
(semi-)sustainable access to enough life support the process of engagement to something new is delayed, even when such engagement
would provide better perspectives to themselves, others or the worldwide community. Large economic crises are normally suffered
because of governance which made itself irrevocably part of the past instead of embracing progress by keeping an open mind and
experiment with change including changing itself.
Change is as much part of a reality as growth. Plain focus on growth only invariably gets anyone into trouble as explained with the
appearance of points of singularity. The open mind introduces the need for change when certain measurable signs appear that suggest the
forthcoming collapse and introduce the need for change. Managing growth and change in one economic system is only possible when its
management places itself above both variables from a perspective of harmonic resilience by accepting an economy to be part of the
ecosystem of nature instead of leading it. This is achieved by introducing the fourth level of regional development, governed by the core
values of sustainable evolutionary progress rather than the political or economic interests that govern the layers below. Change always
tends to deal with the unknown but the law of opposites replaces that by dealing with the desired as opposed to undesired. Unhealthy
situations are undesired while health is desired. Health is an undetermined abstraction but in the public resonance it is a tangible reality in
the face of climate issues, pollution, rising costs of care, etc. Public support can hence always we expected as a silent democratic fact
without need for implicit or explicit political projection. It is a silently accepted leadership responsibility, not a democratic choice. It only
becomes a political issue when the leadership responsibility is omitted and public representatives are made politically responsible by their
populations. Unfortunately this tends to happen when it is too late.
Economy of Growth is no
guarant y for stability, a
transformat ion economy is.
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For the first time in human history we become aware of such
unspoken responsibilities and the way our old societal context has
deviated from them. The change patterns hence are always directed
at establishing health, or any of the other core values. This gives
comfort to the establishment that needs to deal with the
innovations and motivation to change, including the often painful
declaration of obsolescence of elements of the past. Normally such
obsolescence gradually phases out over time as the new
instruments build up. Having established the permanent backbone
of sustainocratic core values and the combined responsibility of all
fragmented expressions of a society in an operational layer 4, the
trigger for innovative change is always initiated when one or more of
the core values are in jeopardy. Measurement infrastructures are
created that produce the triggers for change. These become part of
the ?Smart City? component of new societal instruments, linking the
past with the new level 4 societal context. Such instruments link with
the values driven innovation clusters that use the input to stimulate
their creativity. The clusters contain the variety of possible partners
that can subsequently divide the value creation processes over
societal patterns (policy, new products, new services, new behavior,
new scientific insights, new education) within their own fields of
institutional or personal self interests. The cyclic process is reflected
in the drawing below indicating also the tremendous effort
(transpiration) that change represents for those who initiate it and
the powerful effect it has on progression (acceleration). If, on the
other hand the transformation economy is omitted the acceleration
comes to a hold and even produces the undesired consequences the
global and local communities suffer today. The transformation
economy, based on the natural core human values is hence seen as
the natural healing factor of an integral economy of regional
harmony and resilience.
From Smart City we evolve into the Awareness driven
eco-system referred to as a Sustainocracy
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Practical level 4 examples in Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Healthy City through air quality,
human health measurements and
awareness driven human regional
dynamics. Projects:
* Intelligent Measurement System
* Health, air and lifestyle research
* Civilian participation in health
* Integrate Air Measurement with
Traffic Management
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Civilian and institutional
engagement in innovative
productivity of basic needs such as
food, recreation, education, energy,
safety and health, including water
and healthy air. Projects:
* Edible forest, urban farming
* Direct urban food connection
with city consumption
* Happiness by making it happen
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School of Talents is a global
Sustainocratic learning community.
Projects:
* Participative learning
* STIR HUBs, entrepreneurial clubs
* Workshops
* Links with AiREAS and FRE2SH
www.schooloftalents.nl
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STIR Foundation | Whitepaper "healing our society, environment and economy"
Pr esen t ed b y :
Jean -Pau l Clo se
ST IR Fo u n d ati o n
Su stai n ocr at
Ei n d h oven , Decem b er 20 16