AI & Machine Learning
Practical insights from 3 re:build sessions on implementing ai & machine learning in regenerative villages.
Definition
AI and machine learning technologies are being applied to regenerative village development in various ways, from optimizing agricultural systems to improving building design and resource management. These technologies can help analyze patterns, predict outcomes, and optimize systems for better performance.
Key Principles
Data-driven insights: When analyzing data (like ice core samples), we can identify patterns and trends within specific time ranges (e.g., 30-100 years), providing valuable insights for long-term planning and decision-making.
Integration with human practices: AI and machine learning work best when integrated with human practices like meditation, yoga, breathing exercises, and other contemplative practices that many of us explore in daily life.
Sustainable material integration: AI can help optimize the use of sustainable building materials such as hempcrete, ceramic, or shipping containers, analyzing performance and suggesting improvements.
Benefits
- Beyond traditional AI: Many of these technologies go beyond traditional concepts of robots and AI, offering benefits that are already working in practice
- Climate adaptation support: Some systems can help vegetation withstand higher temperatures and changing climate conditions, potentially benefiting from increased CO2 in the atmosphere
- Continuous improvement: Edge computing and AI systems can continuously monitor performance, identify risks, and suggest improvements or new components
- Network learning: AI models can facilitate learning networks where insights from one village improve others, especially when there are similarities in topography, climate, and other factors
- Self-improving systems: Software can continuously analyze itself and identify ways to improve, creating self-optimizing systems
Key Insights
Collaborative solutions: We need to see all solutions at the table and work together rather than against each other. Technology and regenerative practices can complement each other, particularly through AI for regeneration approaches.
Resistance to technology: In regenerative work, scientists, agriculturalists, and restoration specialists are often resistant to technology, creating unnecessary divisions.
Focus on major impacts: Agriculture (corn, rice, cereal grains, mostly wheat) accounts for a significant portion of greenhouse gases. It's counterproductive to focus on minor issues (like 4% contributions) when major sources need attention.
Data analysis value: When analyzing data like ice cores, we can identify patterns and trends within specific time ranges (30-100 years), providing valuable insights for long-term planning.
Source awareness: Be conscious of where your food comes from. Regenerative agriculture, especially holistic grazing, represents some of the best practices for planetary health.
Examples and Case Studies
So we will talk a little bit about NFTs and AI art and how we're connecting a community of people globally, but in the first instance, it's really important through storytelling and narrative
But by the way, for example, this is a 25-hector 60-acre, better luck, if you will, a piece of farmland
And again, the case of, in a really not a matter of if, but when and how bad some anomaly is going to happen to these urban areas, if I'm related or whatever, that these communities can be sort of going on, humming along without too much interruption
Design thinking will be much different in Thailand, for instance, or in South Africa, or in the mean, it's going to have not only a climate-related perspective, but a cultural milieu
Best Practices
- It's actually had a very terrible failure running this wall trying to stop the wall and then, and then And the reason is, because we have this in our minds, we can create vertical lines and hold back advancing progression
- And the more water that can be retained in soil through the life and the human slayers and the micromanals of fungal and all the pieces that are holding the soil together, that's actually a really great indicator of whether there's going to be in sex
- And that effect as I don't maintain a lateral train
- And a lot of these technologies that I speak about are not just like, as we would think in regards to, as we would just think about robots and AI and other things, even though they have a huge amount of benefits, like it's almost been working
Implementation Guide
To implement ai & machine learning in your regenerative village project, consider the following approach:
Implementation details to be added.
Challenges and Considerations
We were getting paid a lot of money to do problem that is unique to my startup
So we feel that that's certainly not the problem with the idea
External Resources
For deeper exploration of this topic, see:
- AI for Good - AI applications for positive impact
- AI for Regeneration - AI systems supporting regeneration
- Regenerative AGI - Regenerative artificial general intelligence
Real-World Examples
These partners are actively implementing ai & machine learning in their projects:
Oi Polloi
Oi Polloi is an arts and culture-led development agency named from the Greek 'οἱ πολλοί' ('the many' / 'the common people') that aimed to regenerate undermined areas using shari...
Wild Community
Wild Community operates as a blockchain-powered Smart Enterprise Ecovillage (SEV) global investment fund and foundation focused on regenerating people, land, culture, and econom...
Regen Jobs
Regen Jobs serves as a recruitment and training platform connecting talent with regenerative economy organizations.
Better World Cameroon
Better World Cameroon promotes youth involvement in sustainable development through permaculture, community living, and African indigenous wisdom.
Forest Village Pretschen
Building a safe space in nature with tech, art, connection and village involvement.