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Mark
Roest
Storyteller, Business Development and Strategic
Planning
[email protected]
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Mark Roest is committed to discovering, finding
key patterns in, and sharing the knowledge humanity
needs to live in harmony with each other and the natural
world.
His world-view is influenced by PierreTeilhard
de Chardin's concept of the noosphere,
the living totality of thought and experience around
the planet, and by the work of R. Buckminster
(Bucky) Fuller, who taught whole systems
thinking and the intelligent use of technology
to meet human needs abundantly and sustainably, eliminating
a root cause of conflict.
Mark brings a wealth of knowledge of sustainable technologies
and economics to the powerful framework embodied in
the oneVillage Initiative, including:
- Cost-competitive renewable
energy technologies.
- Construction technologies
that minimize direct and indirect harm to the environment,
and maximize health, comfort and utility.
- Agricultural and waste treatment
practices that rebuild the soil and provide abundant,
healthy food.
- Classic health systems of
Asia, and the integration of classic and modern health
care practices.
- Transportation design for
urban and rural areas that minimizes pollution and
energy use and maximizes convenience and efficiency,
and can actually be profitable.
- Urban design practices that
minimize the demand on transit systems, while maximizing
both quality of life and economic productivity.
- The use of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) and other aspects of Whole Systems Modeling
to identify the best ways to deploy the resources
listed above, to meet society's needs and to protect
and restore the environment.
- Economic theory that describes
how mutual support, social justice and sound environmental
practices can meet human needs abundantly, in keeping
with the lessons of Whole Systems Modeling and the
oneVillage framework.
- A path for the evolution
of Information Technology that can enable most people
to create their own applications, to understand the
global structure of information and knowledge, and
to input their own experience and actions into the
modeling of economic flows, so that all levels of
social organization can operate efficiently and fairly,
while restoring the natural world.
- A plan for identifying which
products and services are made using materials and
processes that have been proven safe for the environment,
on a global scale, and making that information conveniently
available to everyone.
- Business practices based
on respect and mutual benefit which make people blossom.
- Educational approaches that
account for people's innate learning styles, that
build community, and that both build a solid foundation
of knowledge and foster creativity.
- The role that art, music
and other forms of expression can play in restoring
health and harmony to the human experience.
Mark holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts, and has graduate
studied in Urban & Regional Planning at San Jose State
University.
Contact Information
Mark Roest
[email protected]
+1 (408) 646-1701 |