Positive Ecology
The transformation to sustainability and/as ways to happiness
What seems to be heard most often are the environmentalists predicting doom, and the deniers and delayers arguing that change would hurt us, personally and economically.Recently, we see an emergent understanding that a transformation to sustainability is actually not just about hard choices for "saving the planet," but about ways in which human happiness can ...learn more
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Created: Nov 23, 2007
Updated: Oct 25, 2009
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Gunter Pauli
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Areas of Focus
Sustainable Materials
(2030 people) | Forest Ecology and Conservation
(1040 people) | Indigenous Rights
(1674 people) | Emissions Trading
(1140 people) | Women's Empowerment
(1827 people) | Sustainable Livelihoods
(2702 people) | Sustainability Education
(4178 people) | EcoVillages
(2782 people) | Agricultural Policy
(1254 people) | Tropical Moist Forests
(462 people) | Farm Ecosystem Management
(1272 people) | Sustainable Energy Development
(3865 people) | Ecological Economics
(2337 people) | Social Entrepreneurship
(3646 people) | Community Enterprise
(1844 people) | Sustainability and Technology
(2110 people) | Water and Sustainable Development
(1901 people) | Conservation and the Commons
(885 people) | Sustainable Building
(2997 people) | Sustainable Minerals Industry
(587 people) | Deserts and Semi-deserts
(491 people) | Natural Heritage Conservation
(756 people) | Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, and Migrants
(898 people) | Sustainable Living
(3454 people) | Sustainable Forestry
(1847 people) | Agroecology
(1159 people) | Sanitation
(443 people) | Restoration Ecology
(1207 people) | Poverty Alleviation
(1728 people) | Aquaculture
(551 people) | Biodiversity Conservation
(3143 people) | Conflict Resolution
(1842 people) | Organic Farming
(3612 people) | Cultural Heritage Conservation
(1230 people) | Sustainable Production
(2458 people) | Mangrove Conservation
(430 people) | Climate Change
(4691 people) | Biomimicry
(1609 people) | Endangered Animal Species Protection
(1595 people) | Youth Education and Empowerment
(3851 people) | Sustainable Agriculture
(3976 people) | Mining and Refining Ores
(204 people)
About
Independent and out of the box thinker and doer. Never took a job, always earned my way through, started 9 companies of which 2 went under. Influenced by the Club of Rome and a creative system thinker who believes that when you have to problem you must look for at least one other and solve both or more at the same time. Father of 2 wonderful sons Carl-Olaf and Laurenz-Frederik, and happily married with Katherina.
Author of books, but mainly proud of the series of 36 fables which bring over 1,500 scientific subjects to children over three years time. These fables permit the next generation to imagine a better society on the basis of what we have, responding to all the basic needs of all on Earth. The fables offer a solid scientific foundation, a fresh insight into emotional intelligence, an easy recourse to arts, a solid capacity to connect the most diverse phenomena and to desire to make things happen.
As founder of ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives) in 1994 I put forward an uncompromising target ZERO WASTE and ZERO EMISSIONS, yet this target is self-evident. After all the only species on earth capable of producing something no one desires is the human species. Thanks to a network of scientists and a broad support from friends with the most diverse background the Foundation succeeded in pioneering over 50 projects around the world. These projects demonstrate that we cannot expect the Earth to produce more. We should do more with what the Earth already produces.
I am dedicated to education based on the principles "Reach - do not teach / Expose - do not impose". I love to learn more about innovations in science and the solutions nature has already invented millions of years ago without posing any risk to any of its fellow members of the system.