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Posted on November 21, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

Sustainability as Whole-System Catalyst to New Forms of Innovation

Sustainability as Whole-System Catalyst to New Forms of Innovation

Since the concept of ’sustainability’ is feathered into most future forms of innovation, I’d like to suggest a few pages below that list concepts of “Sustainable Innovation”.

What is Sustainable Innovation
http://discoveryfuel.com/what-is-sustainable-innovation/
Deep Innovation for our future goes beyond ‘technologies’ as mere device structures, but also design integration processes and pattern recognition too.

A List of Sustainability Principles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sustainability_principles
Important to the future are the principles that guide its design.

Concepts of Sustainable Design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_design
Considerations for designing physical objects, the built environment, and services that comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability; otherwise known as the ‘triple bottom line’.

Sustainability System Categories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sustainability
A limited but growing list of categories that link sustainability into an interconnected world community design system.

Appropriate Technologies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
Usually used to describe simple technologies suitable for use in developing nations or less developed rural areas of industrialized nations. This form of appropriate technology usually prefers labor-intensive solutions over capital-intensive ones, although labor-saving devices are also used where this does not mean high capital or maintenance cost. In practice, appropriate technology is often something described as using the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the intended purpose in a particular location.

Posted on September 11, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process.

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process. It is too often used to describe the entire process of manifestation. Actually, INNOVATION is sandwiched between INSPIRATION and INVENTION. This more (w)holistically describes a full creative cycle.

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Posted on August 14, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

Principles of Regenerative Commerce

Regenerative Commerce is a system based on a broader understanding of what it means to develop technology and business. DiscoveryFuel.com proposes that, using these principles, a region’s economic system can revitalize itself and perform beyond today’s assumptions and expectations. The following represent shifts in awareness of the models we use to create and innovate within enterprise. Note that a ’shift’ means we are including new information that expands existing models and does not mean that we are replacing them.

A Shift …

1:  A Shift From Single -> To Triple Bottom Line Management

Developing Evolved Organizing STRUCTURES

2:  A Shift From Building Mechanistic Systems -> To Growing Living Wholes

Advancing Technological PATTERNS

3:  A Shift From Linear Sequencing -> To Nonlinear Cyclic Closed Loops

An Integration of Value-Web PROCESSES

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DiscoveryFuel.com’s long term objective is to create a global network of innovation learning centers. Each interdependent center will incubate innovative technologies and companies that can work for a our emerging globally conscious community.

The concept, known as ‘Regenerative Commerce‘, will act as an integrating framework for incorporating principles of sustainable innovation for the realization of business products and services that work for a post-industrial society.

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RELATED CONCEPTS

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1- Sustainable Design Techniques
Closed Loop Systems * 7e’s of Strategic Innovation * 7 Elements of New Enterprise * Sustainable Innovation Defined

2- Development Principles for Metabolic Growth
Biomimicry * Ecological Systems * Knowledge Capacity * The Natural Step * Permaculture * BauBiologie

3- Knowledge Distribution Methodologies
Triple Bottom LIne Matrix * EcoManagement * Innovation Mapping

4- Regional Design & Dialogue Frameworks
Tri-Cellular Communities Model * Conversation Word Map * World Dialogue Experiment on Change & Myth

5- Sustainable Enterprise
Ethics & Ethics to Innovation * Values Considerations * Innovation vs Invention * Technology Council * Sustainable Business Planning Guide

6- Networked Communications Modeling
Concentrix Management For Group Design * Collaborative Learning Exchange Markets * Community Domains For Culturally Creative Design

Creating Sustainable Society Based on Conscious Design

In the near future, the PRINCIPLE-PRACTICE-POLICY model ( 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5) will be integrated into the Regenerative Commerce (RegenCom) concept.

Here, the policy body acts as a ‘governor’ that monitors the effectiveness of pre-determined guiding principles via the principle body, and provides feedback to the overall system so that adjustments can be made as the chosenb principles play out in a practical way within the practicing body.

What is missing in today’s model for community design and development, based on this 3P’s model?

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What are you’re thoughts? Blog me below, or contact me directly at RegenCom@DiscoveryFuel.com, or join me and others in collaboratively designing and applying this concept by going to the Regenerative Commerce collaboration wiki (This is a new effort and I need and want your help!).

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Posted on August 1, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

“Be The Change!” – 7 Steps To Manifestation

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

Join “Be The Change!” Twibes Twitter Group /// Participate in the “Be The Change!” Dialogue Project

Join One Of Our Discovery Communities At The Bottom Of This Page

Mohandas Gandhi’s quote above is powerful, isn’t it?

Being the change requires that we embody change itself. To do this, each of us must surround ourselves with a community of others that can provide us with encouragement and supportive feedback.

Seven Steps To Becoming The Change:

• Know WHY you want change and be able to articulate it.
• Understand WHAT it means for that change to happen.
• Time WHEN the change can best occur.
• Find WHO you want to ally with.
• Consider WHERE the change can best serve.
• Practice HOW the change needs to emerge.
• And always always always be aware of the influence of your change on others – Our greatest risk is that we become blinded by your own righteousness about our own need for change. This is why a community is necessary to keep each of us highly motivated and always in check.

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Become a ‘Fuel-Molecule’ within the Solution of Change

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Because ‘WE’ being change is far more powerful than just ‘ME’ being change.

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JOIN US!

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TO SEE CHANGE, ONE MUST BECOME CHANGE !

Join the ‘Be The Change!‘ Twibes Twitter Conversation Group

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Posted on October 27, 2008 - by Vic Desotelle

Vic’s “Be The Change!” Twibes Twitter Postings

Vic’s “Be The Change!” Twibes Twitter Postings

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Learn more about Discovery Fuel’s “Be The Change!” Project