What does Sustainable
Economy need?
An Industrial Perspective
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is not a perspective of a single guy or a single company. We are ahead of others but are not alone, and most of what we are doing now, will be the standard, soon. There are hundreds and thousands of companies on this road with the same or very similar approach which need well and adequately educated professionals in their business in the next couple of years. It is the real challenge of the European Universities how they can serve this need.
THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY NEEDS
Citizens of the “Universitas”
STATEMENT:
1. with a globally integrated knowledge
in Science, Technology, Society & Culture
2. with the capacity to grab the
essence, and having ability to prioritize and focus
3. with the skills to communicate
through companies, industries, geographies and cultures
PERSONAL
TRAINED: Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
GIFTED: Inventor, Painter and Lateral (Out-of-the-Box) Thinker
SPECIALITIES: Living Technologies & Creativity Engineering
1974 1989 2011
PERSONAL
15 years at
UNIVERSITY as
Lecturer and
Researcher
22 years in
BUSINESS as
Entrepreneur and
Strategist
XX years in
SUSTAINABILITY as
Global Catalyst
BUSINESS
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BUSINESS
BUSINESS
BUSINESS
BUSINESS
USA
EUROPE
INDIA SE-ASIA
CHINA
BUSINESS
A COMPANY, BORN GLOBAL
BUSINESS
BIOTECHNOLOGY NANOTECHNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE
NOW, FOR DECENTRALIZED TREAT AND REUSE of WATER, BUT
LITERALLY, CAN BE ANYTHING
reactor-cells showing wide range of differentiating capabilities
• BACTERIA
• PROTOZOA
• SNAILS
• MUSSELS
• CRAYFISH
• PLANTS
• FISH
designed and trained to eat everything, in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of energy
SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION
SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION
HUGE INDUSTRIAL PARK
RESIDENTIAL AREA
SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION
SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION
SEWAGE TREATMENT AS A SHOW AND ENTERTAINMENT
started spontaneously
Knowledge transfer and Advocacy needs trained Professionals
THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY NEEDS:
Citizens of the “Universitas”
SUSTAINABILITY
A complex metabolic network system, balanced between Nature and Human Society. You need to have full understanding of the Whole to be efficient in the Details
Watts & Strogatz: Collective dynamics of „small-world” networks
Nature, 1998
Barabási & Albert: Emergence of scaling in random networks
Science, 1999
BREAKTHROUGHS IN UNDERSTANDING LIFE
Junjie Qin et al: A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing
Nature, 2010
BREAKTHROUGHS IN UNDERSTANDING LIFE
1. ONLY 10 % of “US” are Human Cells
2. Only 1 of every 150 genes within “US” are human
Who We Are?
The Humane Genome 2
OK, even if we know how Living Systems work, but how we can design and build
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
30 0.1
0.25 0.7
3.0
6.5
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2010: 3,5 Bln
URBANIZATION Between 1950 and 2050, 95% of the growth is in developing countries
LIFE EXPECTANCY
From Upper Paleolithic to early 20th Century: 30-35 years
(at birth)
more than doubled in 4 (!!!) generations
world average in 2010 is 67,5, over 85 in Japan
WATER ENERGY
FOOD WASTE
METABOLISM, INTEGRATED INTO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
(Drinking and Cooking): 5
Household: 200
Industry & Services: 800
Food production: 3000
WATER CONSUMPTION
GLOBAL AVERAGE TOTAL 4,000 l/person/day
95
% c
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sum
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THE RESOURCES ARE LIMITED 1
CHANGE THE ATTITUDE
ORGANICA MATRIX INITIATIVE
Building a Global University Network of
Living, Learning Laboratories
PROGRAM PLANNED TO BE LAUNCHED IN 2012 Q3