Linking ecology and economy | Dr. Koert van Mensvoort | TEDxAruba

At TEDxAruba, Dr. Van Mensvoort talks about a link between ecology and economy with an alternative currency that express environmental value: the ECO currency.
Dr. Koert van Mensvoort (1974) is an artist, technologist and philosopher best known for his work on the philosophical concept of Next Nature, which revolves around the idea that our technological environment has become so complex, omnipresent and autonomous that it is best perceived as a nature of its own. It is his aim to better understand our co-evolutionary relationship with technology and help set out a track towards a future that is rewarding for both humankind and the planet at large.
Among his works are the NANO Supermarket (a traveling exhibition disguised as a supermarket that that presents speculative future technologies), the Datafountain (an internet enabled water fountain connected to money currency rates) and the book ‘Next Nature: Nature changes along with us’, the documentary ‘Daddy! The Woods smell of Shampoo’ - among many other things. Van Mensvoort directs the Next Nature Network in Amsterdam and is a fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@muslehuddinmusabmohammed4200]

Excellent food for thought

[@seancampbell9689]

I wonder if we could extend it to ethics too: like, clothes that are not made by slaves as having more value, or food that was not grown by slaves.

[@boitumelooliphant97]

I LOVE IT...CAN ALSO REDUCE POVERTY AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY. AFRICA CAN STAND OUT

[@Rahulshahrps]

If we eradicate currencies from world no one would be poor on Earth

[@MegaSnail1]

Such critical points that so few people consider. My suggestion is that wealthy countries give tax breaks to corporations that invest in Guardian populations of indigenous people who primarily inhabit the remaining most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet. These investments would support the ongoing contributions and deep ecological understanding of indigenous folks which the scientific community can document. This documentation would demonstrate the value of what these people do to make their ecosystems sustainable which can then be applied in the rest of the "developed world"

[@paulgreen2416]

6:01 Technosphere sound like a music festival or club. That's the 90s Raver coming out in me 😄

[@meiekleijburg4509]

Go alberto!!!!!! 100000000 ECo for you man

[@ssmith2295]

It's a great thought. Instead of a carbon tax, a reward for being ecofriendly. The concept definitely would be a challenge to implement, but without adding a regulation like this one, I doubt we will be able to live sustainably and counteract climate change.

[@dajjukunrama5695]

You liberals just can’t stop thinking about money can you?

[@KamilVakil]

00:16 Photography and virtual currencies 01:44 People were trading tools and forging trading partnerships to satisfy their hunger for resources. 04:29 The development of finance and the tendency towards intangible information 05:59 Art and technology are necessary human activities. 07:23 The financial system is of high value 08:51 Putting all the money into a coping system for current issues like decreasing biodiversity and climate change. 10:25 Planting trees all over the planet

[@ericpham7871]

The best ecology is the one had low contrast in design and control as well as less countertop. Even high voltage power distribution is creating high contrast could be threat until chose variable frequency of long range transmission for safer

[@KurtSk8tes247]

Eco-coin. American Govenernment, you there?

[@lucusinfabula]

It isn't altogether unfathomable that rotund-planular coin was a weathered digging tool larger and stylized. There might even be at some stage precious metals being hidden in the form of utensilery with oxidative coating manufactured with tapioca pudding or whatever other foodstuff could be used as carbon donor for biofilms and prop-dirt-debris. Very interesting epistems in the epistemology of adorning of metallurgical wealth for gleam and thermo-labile threshold being low. I pay homage acknowledging finely adorned metal crafting manifest in post-modern currency will be better when limited-editions depict keystone concepts of social and technical best-practice scenarios such that they can be recognized (Olympics in Member State, Treeplanting and EU/OECD overlap in conservation mandates (e.g. seamount governance if 3-d topography of near-surface mountains as a thick waterline _and: mid-ocean isolation when the aforementioned is lenticular quadrangle pyramid the American Continent silhouette and the African Continent silhouette. I've been to the Vatican Musea and testified to a perspective on the costs of democracy where manufacts resulted from emoluments justified from illiterate serfs unheard of today other than civic infrastructure such as bridges, schools, library, roadways, ports, medical capacity. Coins allow for eruditely down-regulating loss of information quite aptly. Off-the-Cuff: A series of EU coins from Ireland and Scotland and perhaps Brittany if they've got sway with French-Feds whereas whatever monocromatic rendering of tartan-textile-art design with opache pixels on the empty contour of the nation state's continental borders. I know I'm labouring the point but metallurgy enables machining enabling the collapse in cost of low-cost garment bulk fabrics contemplated by uninformed bleading hearts is resulting in textile-design symbolisms being less well known and indeed proclive towards extinction. I cherish the emerging nation that will produce a series dedicated to various previously existing iconographically rendering femininity elicited by sketch-artists after exibiting a travelling-Escher-art-collection for a good measure of perturbance deliberately above and beyond prescription of Clergy in Particular. De-escalating dogmatic sclerosis with no-one throat likely identifiable for slitting via numismatics and philatelics for the same reasons. Knowledge economy extraordinaire!

[@muslimvegan1013]

This was very interesting. However, we can never go back to the state of nature because it is too dangerous and we as humans do not trust other humans. In the state of nature we would fear for our lives. Yes, the world economy needs to become more sustainable, but basing it entirely around the benefit it brings to the planet would be extremely unsafe

[@milarepa1234567]

THIS.

[@romanamerlene8554]

I did something similar with Avasva solutions.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Substantive human rights confederation religion kingship authority

[@jimmoriarty6964]

All hail capitalism

[@UjwalRam]

That man is in rainforest and he can't get food 🤔 What am I missing here? Even Mougli knows forest means food, trees, fruits, vegetables, get some seeds from other trees, plant around... Why burn it? And someone saying we can't eat trees... Preserving bio-ecosystem doesn't mean we are helping the planet. Planet doesn't need our help. We are just helping ourselves as it's us who won't be around if we don't have basic life material - oxygen and water.

[@Rahulshahrps]

Firet step towards ecology will be shedding clothes and be natural as born

[@Rakhnanti]

All good, but please pronounce it as E-co.... Not Ekko. Otherwise great initiative.

[@Linguages2024]

Hi, have heard about an ecology channel here on KZbin?

[@maxgamxr]

American moment 😍😍