Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible

• Strong democracy
Vancouver, 2032

• Renewable energy
Vancouver, 2032

• Affordable housing
Vancouver, 2032

• The recovery of nature
Vancouver, 2032

• A new hope, a new story
Vancouver, 2032

• The climate crisis continues
Vancouver, 2032

• Strong, happy neighbourhoods
Vancouver, 2032

• Strong, happy neighbourhoods
• A cooperative economy, beyond capitalism
Vancouver, 2032

How Did it Happen?
Vancouver, 2032

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The Universe took 14 billion years to
create the miracle of today’s existence

We are all made from conscious, self-organizing stardust

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Conscious, self-organizing stardust

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World Population: 7.4 billion
Increasing by 200,000 a day

World Population: 7.4 billion
Increasing by 200,000 a day
Hopefully
stabilizing
at 11 billion
by AD 2100,
then declining

“More plastic in the sea than fish.”

'Insatiable' by Theodore Bolha

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GDP =
Gross
Depletion
of the
Planet

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Gross
Depletion
of the
Planet
Why?
To raise cattle,
to make hamburgers

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Why?
To make shark fin soup

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www.earthfuture.comChris Jordan

I see grave
fundamental
problems
ahead…

Can we put them all in
a pot, and cook up a
wonderful feast?

CLIMATE STABILITY
HEALTHY DEMOCRACY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
ECOLOGICAL HARMONY
BLOSSOMING COMMUNITY
A FAIR AND JUST ECONOMY
A RENEWED SENSE OF PURPOSE
2032

Three
Fundamental
Findings
from the Future

1. The power that comes with having
a positive vision is amazing

The visions we offer our children shape the future.
It matters what those visions are.
– Carl Sagan, 1934-1996

2. We simply need to organize together
around the power of a new vision

3: The new theory of Syntropy provides
a deep unifying principle and a new story

Failed, due to the absence of
positive, practical solutions

O
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E
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25 Positive, Practical Solutions

2011 World Values Survey
34% of Americans approve of
“having a strong leader who doesn’t have to
bother with Congress or elections.”
42% among those with no education
beyond high school.

86% of British Columbians support a
ban on corporate and union political donations
81% BC Liberal voters 91% NDP voters
86%

Neo-
Liberalism
Destroying Nature
Enabling tax havens
Increasing inequality
Generating anger
Corrupting governments
Pleasing corporations
Destroying jobs
Generating wealth

Consumerism … Materialism … Neo-Liberalism

Corporate
Plutocracy
Social
Democracy
ME WE

2032
Eight Ways that
Capitalism
is being transformed
into a Green,
Entrepreneurial,
Cooperative, Caring Economy

A Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative,
Caring Economy

1. Strengthening
Entrepreneurialism
2. Transforming
The Corporation
3. Transforming
Banking
4. Reducing Poverty &
Inequality
5. Respecting Nature 6. Protecting Public
Ownership
7. New Global
Financial Architecture
8. Green, Sustainable
Economics

1. Strengthening
Entrepreneurialism

www.startupcommunities.ca
Training New Entrepreneurs

Youth enterprise in all schools

Emilia Romagna, Italy
• Population 4.4 million
• $$$, top ten European regions
• 32% self-employed
• 76% work in small business with 4-5
workers
• Italy’s 4th largest exporter
• 400,000 enterprises
• 7,500 cooperatives
• Strong tradition of reciprocity,
regional economy mutual support,
financed by 0.4% levy on sales
•Regional credit system with close ties
to local enterprises
• Lowest unemployment
• Highest rate of citizen satisfaction in
Italy
Businesses Cooperating Together

Mondragon, Spain
*
Network of 257 cooperative businesses
Philosophy of participation and solidarity

Mondragon wage ratios 1:3 to 1:9
US Corporate CEOs 1:350*
(*Harvard Business School Study)

Green Business Certification
www.vigbc.ca

The Triple Bottom Line
Planet, People, Profits

2. Transforming the
Corporation

Benefit Corporations in Vancouver
Aquatic Informatics
Aroundsquare Ltd
Big Room Inc.
Brix Media Co.
Climate Smart Business, Inc.
Ethical Bean Coffee
Fairware Promotional Products.
Flipside Creative
Hootsuite
Junxion Strategy
Kent Employment Law
Leverage Lab
Light Trail Consulting
Lunapads
Mills Office Productivity
Pyrrha
Realize Strategies
Recollective Consulting
Renewal Funds
RTOWN
Saul Good Gift Co
Save On Meats
SES Consulting
SMAK Food Inc
soulpepper
SPUD
Sustainability Television
Yulu Public Relations Inc.

Companies with more Women Board Directors
experience higher financial performance
Catalyst Bottom Line

Triodos, Holland
The World’s Greenest Bank

Vancity Credit Union
520,000 members
$20 billion in assets
$5.5 million returned to members last year

Microlending – The Grameen Bank

40% of the banks in the
world are Public Banks
Algeria
Austria
Brazil
Bulgaria
Caribbean
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Denmark
Egypt
Finland
France
Germany
Holland
Hungary
India
Japan
Macedonia
Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Russia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan

“When banks extend loans to their customers,
they create money by crediting
their customers’ accounts.”
- Sir Mervyn King
Governor of the Bank of England, 2003-2013

When a public
bank creates
money,
the interest
earned returns
to the public.

Mission
“to deliver quality, sound financial services
that promote agriculture, commerce
and industry in North Dakota.”

“More profitable than Goldman Sachs,
has a better credit rating than JP Morgan and Chase,
and hasn’t seen profit growth drop since 2003.
Meet the Bank of North Dakota,
the U.S.’s lone state-owned bank.
Return on equity (…) is 18.56%, about 70% higher
than at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.”
November 19, 2014

The Public Bank of
British Columbia, est. 2018
• Stores government and crown agency revenues
• Creates new money by the act of lending
• Saves taxpayers up to 50% in interest costs on critical
infrastructure like bridges, trains and schools
• Eliminates billions in bank fees and money management
for cities and the province
• Supports community bank loans to clean energy, building
retrofits, farms, First Nations projects, value-added
forestry, hi-tech, community development corporations,
small businesses, students.
• Provides counter-cyclical relief by issuing credit at low or
zero cost to revitalize infrastructure and other services

Re-instated the pre-1974
powers of the Bank of Canada

4. Reducing Poverty
and Inequality

• 25 First Nations MPs in Ottawa
• BC’s Premier a First Nations woman
• Free college education
• Land treaties signed across the country
• First Nations people becoming teachers,
lawyers, doctors, engineers, politicians
• Westshore coal terminal at Tsawassen a
centre for First Nations history, celebration,
tidal energy & eelgrass recovery.
Some First Nations Breakthroughs
by 2032

5. Treating Nature as a
Being to Respect
not a Resource to Exploit

Counting and taxing Nature’s external costs
Regulating effectively to protect habitat
Compassionate care for farm animals
Fully protected habitat zones
A green restorative economy
100% sustainable fisheries
100% sustainable forestry
100% renewable energy
100% organic farming
Zero waste
An Ecological Economy

All organic farms protect their bees

Sustainable Ecosystem-Based
Forestry

Measuring Gross National Happiness
as well as Gross Domestic Product

6. Protecting Public Ownership
and the Role of Government

“It is indisputable
that most of Apple’s
best technologies
exist because of the
prior collective
and cumulative efforts
driven by the State.”
- Mariana Mazzucato

Healthcare
Education
Social Security
Insurance
Utilities
Affordable Housing
Public Banking
Research & Development
Effective Regulation

7. A New Global
Financial Architecture

Climate Treaties are essentially voluntary

Trade Treaties come with tribunals,
bringing huge penalties and costs.

Chapter 11 allows corporations to sue governments
if they feel they have not been treated as a domestic
company would be treated.

After Obama rejected the Keystone Pipeline,
TransCanada filed a $15 billion lawsuit under NAFTA.

Global Fair Trade Treaty, March 2025

8. New, Green, Sustainable
Economics

Five Star Thinkers
of a Socially Just Economy
Mariana Mazzucato Muhammad Yunus
Ellen BrownHa-Joon Chang
Thomas Piketty

Global Monthly Temperature Change, 1850-2015

Greenhouse gas pollution
Observed temperature
Bloomberg

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British Columbia
Forest Fire
July 2015

The Paris Climate Agreement
Great
Collapse
Great
Transition

The last time the world was 3C warmer,
the sea level was 25 metres higher.

2 metres
10 metres
18 metres
25 metres

Vancouver 2 Metres Sea-Level Rise

Vancouver 20 Metres Sea-Level Rise

2-metre sea-level rise
Every beach on the planet … GONE

Fossil fuels
launched the Industrial Age,
and the modern world.

Fossil fuels
made advanced engineering,
solar PV and electric vehicles possible.

Fossil Fuels were the Launch Ramp
for the Solar Age
Burning firewood - 500,000 years

for the Solar Age
Burning fossil fuels – 300 years

for the Solar Age
Direct solar energy – more than a billion years

Farewell and Thank
You, Fossil Fuels
Welcome,
Solar Age!

Social
Democracy
Corporate
Plutocracy

The five fundamental solutions
to the climate crisis
tothe climate crisis

1. 100% renewable energy

2. No more industrial meat

3. Restore Earth’s forests

4. Eco-sequestrate carbon

4. Eco-sequestrate carbon
5. A restorative economy

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The livestock industry – meat & dairy –
is causing 15% of global warming

Oslo voted to slash emissions 95% by 2030

A Global Carbon Cap
A firm global cap
on fossil fuel emissions,
agreed to by all nations,
motivated by real alarm,
and a clear positive vision
of a future green
economy.
By 2015, a global cap of
493 Gt of future CO2

National Carbon Caps
1. Each nation is allocated a cap, agreed by
negotiation.
2. Every producer or importer of fossil fuels bids for a
permit in a national annual auction.
3. The auction puts a price on carbon and brings
income to the government.

L
N
G
=
Leave it
N the
Ground
Why? The climate crisis, the salmon,
the eelgrass, the Tsimshian, the Haida…
Lelu Island
Skeena Estuary

2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040
Every year
5-10% CO2 reduction

Carbon rationing,
for individuals and businesses

Year 1: 5 tonnes
Year 2: 4.5 tonnes
Year 10: 0 tonnes
Carbon Exchange to buy and sell rations

2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040
Every year
renewable energy
increase

Almost Twice as Many
Green Jobs in Canada
By Guy Dauncey
800,000 fossil fuel jobs lost
1,000,000 green energy jobs gained

TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT FOSSIL FUELS

www.restreets.org
Downtown streets

The Veemo, being made in Vancouver
www.velometro.com

In Odense, Denmark,
5-Year-Olds Bike to School on their Own

2032: The E&N railway has been turned
into a long-distance Island Bikeway

The Hovenring Bicycle Bridge, Holland
Connects Eindhoven and Veldhoven

The Future Arbutus Corridor, Vancouver

Cornelia Dinca
Amsterdam
now
Amsterdam
then

Cornelia Dinca
Amsterdam
then
Amsterdam
now

Barcelona is moving ALL its buses to electric
100% electric by 2020

Australian/Chinese Brighsun Bus
1027 km on one charge

Bio-methane from Bristol's sewage
treatment (UK) 300 km on a tank of gas.

Well-to-wheel, biomethane produces
95% less CO2 than diesel

Elevated transit bus, under development in China

The Pilot: real-time in-ear translations
in French, Spanish, Italian, and English

Build-It-Ourselves Bus Shelters

Real-time electronic bus stops

Car sharing - Car2Go
100,000 members in Vancouver

By 2025, Holland is preparing to ban the
purchase of gas and diesel cars

Germany is planning a 2030 zero
emissions mandate: 100% electric vehicles

Norway’s Transport Plan assumes that electric cars
will be 100% new car sales by 2025.

India is working on a plan
to make every car electric by 2030,
self-financed by the savings on gas.

Almost 400,000 advance orders placed for
The Tesla Model 3. $35,000 US
320 kilometres range

The falling price of EV batteries

Swiss E-Force 18 tonne electric truck
300 km range
80–110 kWh per 100 km at highway speed

Future Nicola One 2000 HP electric truck
CNG hybrid. Driving range 800-1200 miles
per tank. www.nikolamotor.com

Future Scania electric truck,
recharging by an inductive roadway.

Norway’s Electric Ferry ZeroCat
5.7 km route, 20 minute round trip

Price of
Solar Module
per Watt
1977: $77
1997: $7
2013: $0.7

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Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Solar PV in 2032: $1.50 a watt
4 kW rooftop system - $6,000

Nelson’s Community Solar Garden

The world’s largest solar farm, Topaz,
California. 9 million panels, 550 MW

Tidal Energy Plant, South Korea

Proposed Tidal Lagoon, Swansea, Wales

65%
of British Columbians want a commitment to
phase out coal, oil and gas, replacing them
with renewable energy.
Oracle Poll, November 2015

73 %
of British Columbians want to see a legally
enforced cap or limits on carbon pollution.

75%
of British Columbians think protecting the
climate is more important than building
pipelines and further developing the tar sands.

92%of British Columbians
want to see a plan
to develop jobs in
the renewable energy
sector.

Passive Houses, Victoria
90% reduced heat loss

Passive House, Victoria, B.C.
90% less heat energy, 15 kwh/m2, 4.4% more cost
www.bernhardtpassive.com

Brussels, Belgium
Since 2015, all new buildings and retrofits are
required to be Nearly-Zero Energy,
based on the Passive House Standard.

Stockholm, 80,000 apartments
heat from treated sewage

Vancouver Olympic Village
Sewage-Based District Heat

Drake Landing, Okotoks, Alberta
Stored Solar Thermal Heat

800 solar hot water panels on the garages

Energy Centre
Community solar
Thermal panels
90% solar heating throughout the
cold Alberta winter

With auto-dominated urban designs, people
disconnect. Less sense of neighbourhood.
Less mutual support.

With social urban designs, people connect.
More sense of neighbourhood.
More mutual support.

Hundertwasser House, Vienna, Austria

REGEN Danish village, 100 homes.
Summer 2016. EFFEKT Architects

Energy positive. High-yield organic food production.
Mixed renewable energy and storage.
Water and waste recycling.

Semiahmoo Transit Station Surrey
www.greenovergrey.com

Vancouver’s lost creeks and streams

Still Creek, Vancouver.
Chum Salmon restored after 80 years

Herring – Once Super-Abundant

Creosoted pilings
kill herring spawn

Squamish Streamkeepers wrapping the pilings
to create safe habitat for herring spawn

The Ocean Clean Up
www.theoceancleanup.com

In 2032: Ecology 101
Mandatory for College Entry

Brooklyn School Edible Schoolyard

91% of homes priced over $1 million

Vancouver Average House Price
January 2016: $1,1850,000

Excess money
coming into the
market = Inflation

Excess money
coming into the
market = Inflation
Inheritances

Excess money
coming into the
market = Inflation
Inheritances
Foreign money

Excess money
coming into the
market = Inflation
Inheritances
Foreign money
Tax-evading
money

Offshore tax evasion in
Vancouver real estate
Ian Young, South China Morning Post

AFFORDABLE
HOMES
July 1st, 1962 July 1st, 2018?

2/3rds of Canadians.
Parents own property.
They will inherit.

1/3rd of Canadians.
Parents do not
own property.
They will never inherit.
2/3rds of Canadians.
Parents own property.
They will inherit.

Gather a big pool of new revenue
and build lots of affordable housing

Build LOTS of affordable housing
10,000-20,000 units a year in BC

Seattle’s property tax levy has enabled the
construction of 12,500 apartments with
below-market rents.
1. An affordable housing tax levy

2. Escalating taxes on properties
left empty

2. Escalating taxes on properties
left empty
80%
public support

3. Affordable Housing Tax on AirBNBs
67% of Vancouver AirBNBs are for
whole house or apartment

4. Escalating property transfer tax
on top-end real estate sales

5. Speculation tax on properties
flipped within a year

6. Tax on homes bought through
offshore tax-havens

7. An Inheritance Tax on Estates
above a certain value

Pour all the money into an
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
LAND RESERVE

Developer incentives
to build 100% rental properties

Shipping
Container
Homes
280 sq. ft.
12 units,
base cost
$85,000 each

Car-Free Laneway Housing
No parking permits,
rainwater collection, zero-net energy

Tiny Homes Zones
on Temporarily Vacant Land

Boneyard Studios, Washington DC

Since 2020: All new buildings Passive
House standard. 90% reduced heat loss
Rob & Mark Bernhardt

Passive House, Victoria.
90% less heat, 4.4% more cost, net zero $ cost
www.bernhardtpassive.com
Rob & Mark Bernhardt

Brussels, Belgium
Since 2015, all new buildings and retrofits are
being built to the Passive House Standard.

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The road will run under the green space

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Is there purpose in the Universe?

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Is there purpose in the Universe?
Or is it all just the result of random chance ?

Number of stars in the Universe
1024 = 1 trillion trillion

Number of atoms in your body
7x1027 = 7000 trillion trillion
All self-organized into one amazing whole

Conscious, self-organized stardust

Or both?
A Spiritual Universe
A Material Universe

If I have
consciousness,
where did it
come from?

“A rudimentary consciousness is present
even at the level of particle physics.”
– David Bohm, 1917-1992

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as
derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind
consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything
that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. “
Max Planck, 1858-1947

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms.
For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.
It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
Erwin Schrödinger, 1887 - 1961

The Universe
is not a purely material, entropic reality

Entropy describes heat-loss in a
physical, material world.

In reality, the Universe is pervaded
with consciousness

A conscious Universe is a
syntropic Universe

Luigi Fantappiè, 1901-1956
Founder of syntropy theory

Syntropy
Greek syn (together) and tropos (tendency)
A deep, unifying, self-organizing force that is
omnipresent in the universe, bringing a tendency
towards energy concentration, order, organization
and life, in contrast to entropy.

Syntropy
All existence shares in a deep cooperative
impulse to increase order and wellbeing.

Champions of syntropy, based in Rome, Italy

The 1st Law of Syntropy
“Acting through consciousness,
syntropy motivates individual
units of being to self-organize
cooperatively
within their empathic reach
to achieve greater organizational
power, range, competence,
integrity and freedom for their
common good.”
from Journey to the Future

The 2nd Law of Syntropy
“In the long run, due to the deep
fundamental unity of the Universe,
any unit of being that extends its
empathy beyond its familiar reach
will discover affinity
with other units of being.
Over time, the syntropic impulse will
result in ever-widening circles of
empathy, until they embrace the
entire Universe.”
from Journey to the Future

All existence shares a
cooperative impulse to
increase order and wellbeing

Syntropy allows
the Unification of

Syntropy allows
the Unification of
Spirit

Syntropy allows
the Unification of
Spirit Science

Syntropy allows
the Unification of
Spirit Science
Social and Political Change

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Humans are motivated by dreams of life and wholeness,
not by nightmares of death and collapse.

FOOD &
FARMING
NEW
ECONOMY
BUILDING
NEIGHBOURHOODS
100%
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
NEW MODELS
OF BUSINESS
NEW BANKING
& FINANCE
TACKLING
POVERTY
OUR
FORESTS
GREEN
TRANSPORT
AFFORDABLE
HOUSING
LOCAL
DEMOCRACY
ECOLOGICAL
RESTORATION

How can we get it all to fit together?

We need to organize together
so that we can realize our chosen vision of the future and
flourish in harmony with each other and with Nature.
Unity in Diversity, Shared Purpose

Food and Farming Group
Cycling, Trails, Transit Group
Electric Vehicles Group
Forests Group
Community Planning Group
Housing Group
Solar PV Group
Climate Action Circles
A New Green Economy Group
Ecology Group
Community Education Group

Environmental groups
Food and gardening groups
First Nations
Youth groups
Local government
Local businesses
Schools
Churches
Community groups
Political organizations
Chamber of Commerce
Service clubs
Regional District
Local college

OUR TOWN
A happy community
A restoring nature community
An engaged learning community
A 100% renewable energy community
A self-organizing, mutually supportive, caring community

Syntropic self-organization
Using informed and inspired consciousness

Embraces the
best aspects of
Capitalism
Liberalism
Socialism
Anarchism
Green thinking
A New Political Synthesis

Embraces the
best aspects of
Capitalism
Liberalism
Socialism
Anarchism
Green thinking
Rejects the
worst aspects of
Capitalism
Liberalism
Socialism
Anarchism
Green thinking
A New Political Synthesis

Throughout existence,
having a positive intention of a future outcome
has been a precondition for success

Previous generations devoted their
lives to ending slavery

To the struggle for civil rights

To the struggle for gay rights

The dark dangers of
authoritarian
corporate power
The freedom and
progress for all that
uncorrupted democracy
makes possible

Corporate
Plutocracy
Social
Democracy

“It’s a race.
A race between the expanding reach of our empathy
as it stretches across the world, bringing love and
intelligent cooperation for the good of all,
and the clutching fear of tribal distrust,
made more powerful by modern technology.
Which will win?”
- Guy Dauncey, Journey to the Future

A Great Transition is Possible
Mark Henson

It’s up to each of us to choose.
And then to act. Mark Henson

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How can I
contribute
more?

Guy Dauncey 2013
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Make a deep inner
commitment, and ask
the Universe – and my
friends - to help me.

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