Books and real-world adventures sparked our vision at EcoPiratas.
Books and real-world adventures sparked our vision at EcoPiratas. They fueled our drive to revolutionize waste management and sustainability for events and festivals. We're committed to building a regenerative, carbon-neutral future, and these books shaped how EcoPiratas contribute to a better world.
1) Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey
Written by the anarchist intellectual Hakim Bey in 1990 in his radical manifesto of the same name, the term ‘temporary autonomous zone’ refers broadly to the practice of eluding formal power structures using a combination of psychological liberation and socio-political tactics. According to Bey, the purpose of the TAZ is to allow any group to experience a temporary utopian situation where individuals can operate outside the rule/hierarchy of the governing body and achieve a level of absolute autonomy which can then be aspired to in day-to-day life. And this is the whole idea of the festivals, which are transformational experiences based on human interactions, creativity, celebration, cultural and knowledge exchanges, that makes possible the co-creation of value and new ways of society that have a great influence and impact on the global ecosystem.
"A T.A.Z. is a liberated area 'of land, time or imagination' where one can be for something, not just against, and where new ways of being human together can be explored and experimented with. Locating itself in the cracks and fault lines in the global grid of control and alienation. Is an eruption of free culture where life is experienced at maximum intensity. It should feel like an exceptional party where for a brief moment our desires are made manifest and we all become the creators of the art of everyday life."
Good examples of a T.A.Z. are the Burning Man Project, Waking Life Festival and Boom Festival.
Knowledge and Insights: Passion and interest for Festivals, Eco-Activism, Environmental Advocate, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Celebrate life as an act of anarchism.
Find the book here! (This book is copyleft, can be download for free on internet)
2) Designing Regenerative Cultures - Daniel Christian Wahl
In this book, Daniel tells us about life and the love of life, and that assuming our individual responsibilities and understanding our importance in the collective is the key to a better world. Daniel says that we need to redesign ourselves first and then we can shift the current social and economic structures through regenerative innovation and cooperation. At the same time, we are invited to focus on our own questions, actions, our own lives, and in this way we can make a change in the face of the biggest current global challenges. That, in turn, feeds a demand for "heroic leadership" or "heropreneurship", and other forms of heroic self-sacrifice in pursuit of world-changing goals. It is all about self-transformation first and then we can be able to co-create a better world for everybody in symbiosis with the entire ecosystem.
Knowledge and Insights: Questions are more important than the answers, Sustainable and regenerative innovation, Nature-based design thinking, Biomimicry, Integral theory, The shift of the business-as-usual into a regenerative-business model starts with our individual mindset/vision change.
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3) The Zero Marginal Cost Society - Jeremy Rifkin
In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, the author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding society to an era of nearly free goods and services. Until now economists have always dreamed about the reduction in marginal cost, but they never anticipated the possibility of a technological revolution that might bring marginal costs to near zero, making goods and services priceless, nearly free, and abundant, and no subject market forces. The use of IoT, Big Data, Business Intelligence and A.I. algorithms to accelerate efficiency, dramatically increase productivity and lower the marginal cost of producing and sharing a wide range of products and services to near zero.
Knowledge and Insights: IoT, big data and AI for Sustainability development and Circular Economy, Technology and Internet to build a post-capitalism system which has zero marginal cost.
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4) The Future - Al Gore
In his book, Al Gore, the former vice president of the U.S., shows his concerns about the widening gap between depleting natural resources and unbridled population. He introduces the reader to interesting terminologies and expressions such as Food riots and water anarchy. This book is a raft of information and research work about the future and it is worth reading about where our heirs will have great challenges and unprecedented opportunities, where technology will reign supreme, and where unskilled people will have no place to call office. Some ideas of this book are aligned with the book The Zero Marginal Cost Society, by Jeremy Rifkin.
Knowledge and Insights: Industrial Sustainability, Green-engineering, Becoming a climate-tech entrepreneur.
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Other readings I suggest to you:
Symbiosis in Development (SiD): a practical framework for integrated sustainable development, based on systems- and design thinking.
