Sustainable Everyday

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System intelligence

• Empower people. Increase participation. Develop enabling, socialising systems to foster personal capabilities and reinforce the social fabric.

• Bring people and things together. Reduce demand for transport. Develop low intensity transport systems to reduce the impact of mobility and reinforce local social fabric.

• Develop networks. Promote decentralised, flexible forms of organisation. Develop systems capable of learning from experience, amplifying feed-back and creating choices which can be reorientated.

• Share tools and equipment. Reduce the demand for products. Develop systems which optimise the employment of products and systems and at the same time foster new forms of socialisation.

• Use the sun, wind and biomass. Reduce dependence on oil. Develop alternative energy systems minimising production of CO2.

• Produce at zero waste. Promote forms of industrial ecology. Develop industrial ecosystems which tend to ‘close the loop of materials’ and cascade energy.


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