Planet
The Blue Economy Map
Discover the actors, schools and initiatives transforming the economy along Gunter Pauli's principles and the Fables.
Places
The map of people and projects
A world map of Blue Economy people and projects. Each one has its own page. The community adds itself, and a single account opens both the map and the community.
World map of the land masses, with a cyan dot for each actor location listed on the map.
Idea
What is the Blue Economy?
The Blue Economy is where what is best for health and the environment is also the cheapest, and where the necessities of life come free, through a local system of production and consumption that runs on what you already have. It is the ZERI philosophy in action.
The founding book, The Blue Economy, describes 100 innovations able to create 100 million jobs in ten years. These are not intentions. Each one starts from something observed in nature, or from a waste stream that already exists, and turns into a real economic activity.
Principles
- Value everything
- Restore nature
- Regenerate, do not recycle
- What is available locally
Person
Gunter Pauli
Born in Antwerp in March 1956, an economist trained at Loyola and INSEAD, an entrepreneur, founder of Ecover and then of ZERI at the United Nations University. He wrote The Blue Economy and Gunter's Fables.
- 1992
- At Ecover, which he founded and chaired, he opened a pioneering ecological factory, covered by CNN Prime Time News.
- ZERI
- He founded Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives at the United Nations University in Tokyo, and grew it into a worldwide network.
- 2000
- At the World Expo in Hanover he built the largest bamboo pavilion of modern times, the most visited pavilion of the Expo: 6.4 million visitors.
You
Join the map
The most direct step is the map. If you are running a project that does better with what is available locally, add it. It becomes visible to everyone else, and it makes you visible to them. The account you create also works for the community.
Add your initiative to the global map of the Blue Economy.
Textures: NASA Visible Earth