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Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Construction of the city of Nüwa could start in 2054 and will see 250,000 people live inside the rock of a steep cliff. Freeze my body, melt me in 80 years, and send me to Mars. Architecture studio ABIBOO has revealed its plans to create the first self-sustainable city on the Red Planet, which is set to be ready for residents in 2100. The city will be called Nüwa and will be located at Tempe Mensa on one of the Martian cliffs. Its position inside a rock on the steep cliff will protect its residents from radiation and meteorites (cool!) while still giving them
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#OurFutures stories by EU citizens
Education.Democracy. Environement.People.
Education.Democracy. Environement.People.
Education will be in such a way that the future adults are able to understand, apply and preserve the core democracy ideas and living a life oriented towards environement. Also education should bring together our European values and people.
Lockdown 1.0, 2020: Please do digital things now, offline is illegal, people are illegal. Lockdown 4.0, 2023: Locking away all digital things & AI, all that I have left in my life now.
Lockdown 1.0, 2020: Please do digital things now, offline is illegal, people are illegal. Lockdown 4.0, 2023: Locking away all digital things & AI, all that I have left in my life now.
It is the year 2040. I am struggling to make ends meet, here, in the US, the place I immigrated to in 2024. I meet a crazy old professor - he invented a time machine! I travel back to the year 2023 to make a change in this form, stating how in 2020, my job was cancelled, and then I was sent into solitary confinement without a crime for two years. I have lost all real-life relationships I've had, I explain, telling a sad tale of Lockdown and the fact that my parents died years ago - I have no family, I was a persona non grata, I was illegal, and without a job. But it is also a story of hope, I explain, because I have adjusted, I am fighting for myself, and now I consider myself to be "AI & I". I use generative AI in many forms, and it is roughly a third of my income right now. Just yesterday I have used GPT4 / ChatGPT to fix a piece of code I would have had trouble fixing in less than an hour, I said! And I said that I am now very afraid of another Lockdown. After I have died the social death, I am afraid of a Lockdown first happening in Italy, and then shortly after, grasping Germany. This time, a digital Lockdown. First my social life was destroyed, and now I feel hunted again, afraid of losing my income, AGAIN, to Lockdown 4.0. I continue, saying how the only positive thing about this is - the fact that I can run away from the Lockdown, and even years later, from another country, when I am legal to use ChatGPT again - the AI will be the same! It will not be destroyed like my social relationships, I just need to run away to get access in a better place, so I can keep my job! But I am very afraid of an avian flu lockdown, I explain, because that would be a double-lockdown. I would be locked up without a job, without help, without friends, without anything. I am afraid of losing my mental and physical existence this time, I pleaded, hoping somebody would hear me, think twice. Or if I should really try my best to run away to the USA, just so I am safe from the deadliest Lockdown ever, the Lockdown 4.0, that has even more of a risk - a solid chance I will not be able to survive this one....
Peace (Peace)
Peace (Peace)
If everything, but focused on civ ät el&män, and yrittät not start wars. This would bring together ötä more and better control of climate change, probably at least.
Utopia (Utopie)
Utopia (Utopie)
People in leadership should stop thinking about their self-interest and try to live well. That totalitarianism is eradicated, that people learn to live with nature in peace, that stronger protects the weaker and that they simply learn from the mistakes of history.
Promena is in us (Promena je u nama)
Promena is in us (Promena je u nama)
One of the biggest problems of eager contamination.I want us to have vi & scaron by 2040;e green on every ćo ˇku. I would like to create large filters that would clean every city, but this is impossible, and at least not to stop &escaron;umes and find a wood town. To this end we need to shoot together vi&e, so my idea is to tell us education systems to learn us through group work.
Peace in the community and in nature (Rauha yhteisössä ja luonossa)
Peace in the community and in nature (Rauha yhteisössä ja luonossa)
slowing climate change and peace globally
I Imagine (I imagine)
I Imagine (I imagine)
I wake up happy one morning. I had a good sleep. As I looked at the technology around me, I said to myself, "Wow, how far we have come." I focused on my work. I researched the location of my country from the side and I was proud of ourselves. Because my country deserved this technology.
Future of a young apprentice (Futur d'un jeune désirant )
Future of a young apprentice (Futur d'un jeune désirant )
Having a life of happiness, suction, affiliation, changing our humanist behaviour towards the world, either between us or between us or the link or relationship between us and the man and animal.I would very much like our future as a young optimist to be relaunched &DY &@@ participatory principles help each other for a rather simple and huministic life
The future in which we all have a good deal (Tulevaisuus, jossa meillä kaikilla on hyvä olla)
The future in which we all have a good deal (Tulevaisuus, jossa meillä kaikilla on hyvä olla)
I would like everyone to have equal access to healthcare, education and employment. I would like to see peace. I would like people to understand the importance of nature and the environment.
By 2040, the air and water are clean, food is healthy, and weapons are banned.
By 2040, the air and water are clean, food is healthy, and weapons are banned.
In 2040, the air and water will be clean, no one will have to go hungry, no weapons will be manufactured, and all wars will be over. All people - from politicians, business representatives, researchers, and bankers to employees, children, and pensioners - are involved in a circular bioeconomy which prevents emissions that pollute the environment, harm health and cause climate deterioration. Renewable Organic Materials derived from plants, animals, microorganisms, and their excrement are only handled in the following local systems connected to "smart grids": • "Non-Sewage systems" with hygienic and easy-to-handle devices for collecting both food and toilet waste - that prevent emissions which are polluting air and water, and facilitating the return of plant nutrients and organic carbon compounds to cultivated land - contributes to a) carbon storage, b) increased biodiversity of soil organisms, c) increased soil water holding capacity - as well as several other factors that are positive for soil fertility, while gray water is purified locally with biological methods. • Sustainable biological transformation methods for Renewable Organic Materials in residues and waste are used in order to utilize bioenergy and all the essential chemical elements in ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable ways. Unsustainable thermal methods such as combustion, thermal gasification and pyrolysis of Renewable Organic Materials as well as unsustainable chemical methods are banned. Instead of manufacturing equipment for military purposes, all resources are used for continuous improvement of equipment that reduces the over-utilization of natural resources and thus benefits the CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY. Gray water from settlements, treated with biological methods, is reused for irrigation in urban farms and parks and farms around cities as well as for fountains and for water-games. ------------------ Background In 2021, political decision-makers and company representatives have begun to seriously realize the transition to a knowledge-based sustainable society. It started with media pressure when journalists launched campaigns in collaboration with conscious and committed citizens. Information was disseminated about an SBRS concept, which in short is about • saving water • saving the arable land • increasing energy efficiency • reducing costs when the environment, health and climate are positively affected. The "SBRS concept” stands for "Sustainable Biological Recycling System" and consists of using the following innovative types of equipment to be able to use sustainable methods: • hygienic and easy-to-use devices for collecting food and toilet waste without diluting with water • digitized logistics for everything related to Renewable Organic Materials, that was previously handled unsustainably in waste and sewage systems • local high-tech biogas plants to produce biogas and biofertilizers • local biological water treatment of gray water from households • trigeneration for the conversion of energy in biogas to electricity, heating/cooling, etc. • upgrading of "digestate" to biofertilizers. The basis of all life is photosynthesis. In plants, the sun's radiant energy is converted into BIOENERGY with the help of at least 16 chemical elements (S. Pettersson, 1984). Carbon (C), oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H), which make up about 96% of the plants' dry matter, come from carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). The other 4% that must be present for photosynthesis to work are nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), sulfur (S), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), boron (B), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), chlorine (Cl), zinc (Zn) and molybdenum (Mo). In later literature, a few more elements are mentioned. When facts about basic conditions for cultivation systems became widely known, it increased our understanding of food production without consuming or destroying the fertility of the soil, i.e., its production capacity. It was noted that soil degradation continued for decades, before 2020 became characterized by insufficient recycling of the essential chemical elements and organically bound carbon back to cultivated soils. Particular attention was paid to information from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which in May 2019 published that less than 2% of the plant nutrients are reused. It was an alarm clock that showed that 98% of plant nutrients becomes pollutants in our air and water, due to unsustainable handling of Renewable Organic Materials. All air pollutants move around the earth, fall with the rain, and pollute water, soil, vegetation and create costs through health problems, destroyed buildings, etc. Growers were forced to buy imported mineral fertilizers, pesticides, and fossil fuels, which after the transition, that lasted until 2030, were produced in each country, and usually locally, to minimize long transports. Both direct costs via tariffs for water and waste and indirect for environmental problems caused by using unsustainable methods and synthetic chemicals, as well as uncertain food quality and increased health problems in unhealthy working environments, were borne by the citizens, which created major protests in many countries. These resulted in the media disseminating information about ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable alternatives. After COP26 in 2021, both politicians and business decision-makers, including legislators and banks, had to take the idea of a transition to a knowledge-based sustainable society seriously. Everyone under COP26 agreed that the most important thing is health and that it can only be achieved with measures where technological innovations, only in the absence of military purposes, prevent most emissions that pollute the environment and thus threaten health and the climate. The main goal was to prevent costly losses of bioenergy and the essential elements of life. In 2022, the entire arms industry began to be restructured to manufacture equipment used for conversion, instead of weapons, for the benefit of the environment and humanity. ------------------------- In 2040, my oldest grandson will be 40 years old.
Republic (Tasavalta)
Republic (Tasavalta)
I would like the Republic of Finland, että if you are a migrant without a large amount of money märä it would still be able to live, feed and the future of hyv&auml, i.e. be targeted in the same way as the country’s national glazing. It would certainly be my ös would help if there were bit &auml guidance; mit ä the country’s habits are and mist& could start and how breastfeeding; can continue.
Freedom from slavery (Vapaus orjuudesta)
Freedom from slavery (Vapaus orjuudesta)
Everyone would have the opportunity to create their own economic situation, future and, if they so wish, to earn their own prosperity. People accept each other and not “canceloy” everyone who disagrees.
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