S2E6: SMARTHOODS & ECO-VILLAGES with social entrepreneur & regenerative engineer Florijn de Graaf (powered by Panarchy.io)

You wake up tomorrow and much like 2008 or 2020, money has collapsed and has no worth, the shelves at the grocery store are empty, all that we give our power over to daily, deteriorates until it no longer functions.

We are experiencing a convergence of crisis on every front all at once: health, economic, environmental, political - that is leading us to bigger and bigger shocks to our systems.

While the way society is designed can no longer sustain itself, let alone the people who depend on it, and/or the environment is exists in, it seems for most of us, there is no way out, no other way to survive.

Also, there is no Plan B if the whole system we depend on comes crashing down.

Or is there?

Florijn de Graaf, founder of SmartHoods, takes us on journey through future proof living. He shares his experience in eco-villages, reporting live from Portugal, one of many stops on his eco tour, to discover new ways to build infrastructure and social structure that puts humans and health of the planet at its core.

We also touch on movements like Earthships, Venus Project and GEN (Global Eco-Village Network).

And dive into:

• value based vs. skill-based systems

• blueprints of a sustainable community

• interconnected vs. separate

• local vs. global supply chain

• ownership vs. access

• food-energy-water nexus

• centralized vs. distributed vs. decentralized networks 

All leading up to how to be less extractive, hierarchal, and degenerative.

The caveat for our community is - building society starts with our relationships first. And what we are witnessing in eco-villages is that being fully integrated into a sovereign community and knowing your place, and your relationship to everything kills the drive for greed, materialism, fame, ownership, and wealth accumulation.

Best of all we discuss the financial (and human) cost if don’t try something different.

Here’s a hint: turns out it’s very expensive to do nothing (business as usual).

FIND SMARTHOODS HERE

CONNECT WITH FLORIJN HERE

SEE FLORIJNS REPORT HERE:  SMART INTEGRATED DECENTRALISED ENERGY SYSTEMSwith @Metabolic

Again, thanks to Adrian Berenguer for supplying our theme music titled 'JOY' available on his album The Art of Loneliness - ⁠available on Apple Music Here⁠