Resolving the Global Climate Crisis by 2037 with Decentralized Techno-Ecological Ecovillages

Summary Catastrophic climate destabilization, topsoil loss, computational energy strain, and chronic disease burdens demand scalable models that unify rapid atmospheric carbon drawdown with ecological, energetic, and macroeconomic resilience. Here, I present a multi-system techno-ecological framework demonstrating a viable pathway toward planetary stabilization by 2037 through decentralized, forest-based ecovillages. The architecture integrates closed-loop biointensive agriculture, silvopastoral wildfire fuelbreaks, and permanent biochar sequestration across approximately one million autonomous settlements supporting two billion residents and six billion regional consumers. Distributed single-phase liquid-immersion edge compute nodes capture 95% of silicon thermal waste (1,425 kWth per hub) to power year-round food production, biomass pre-drying, and district heating without water consumption. Realigning global dietary policy with non-linear epidemiological longevity data reconciles food systems with biological reality, while community-governed Accountable Care Cooperatives assume jurisdiction over global healthcare and health education—sponsoring recurring one- to two-month annual ecovillage residencies for all regional citizens to master low-throughput living, whole-food, organic/biointensive nutrition, and preventive self-care. Grounded in steady-state economic principles, upstream depletion quotas, full-reserve banking, and perpetual land trusts, each ecovillage federates into an integrated multistakeholder cooperative maintaining democratic oversight over physical assets and sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure. Quantitative modeling indicates that this circular model reverses global agricultural emissions (+12 GtCO2e yr-1) into an active terrestrial sink (-24 GtCO2e yr-1)—achieving net-negative global atmospheric drawdown (-2.0 to -5.0 GtCO2e yr-1) by 2037 while concurrently advancing targets across all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-28
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21876801
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Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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Resolving the Global Climate Crisis by 2037 with Decentralized Techno-Ecological Ecovillages

David K Cundiff
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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Resolving the Global Climate Crisis by 2037 with Decentralized Techno-Ecological Ecovillages

David K Cundiff
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Abstract

Summary Catastrophic climate destabilization, topsoil loss, computational energy strain, and chronic disease burdens demand scalable models that unify rapid atmospheric carbon drawdown with ecological, energetic, and macroeconomic resilience. Here, I present a multi-system techno-ecological framework demonstrating a viable pathway toward planetary stabilization by 2037 through decentralized, forest-based ecovillages. The architecture integrates closed-loop biointensive agriculture, silvopastoral wildfire fuelbreaks, and permanent biochar sequestration across approximately one million autonomous settlements supporting two billion residents and six billion regional consumers. Distributed single-phase liquid-immersion edge compute nodes capture 95% of silicon thermal waste (1,425 kWth per hub) to power year-round food production, biomass pre-drying, and district heating without water consumption. Realigning global dietary policy with non-linear epidemiological longevity data reconciles food systems with biological reality, while community-governed Accountable Care Cooperatives assume jurisdiction over global healthcare and health education—sponsoring recurring one- to two-month annual ecovillage residencies for all regional citizens to master low-throughput living, whole-food, organic/biointensive nutrition, and preventive self-care. Grounded in steady-state economic principles, upstream depletion quotas, full-reserve banking, and perpetual land trusts, each ecovillage federates into an integrated multistakeholder cooperative maintaining democratic oversight over physical assets and sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure. Quantitative modeling indicates that this circular model reverses global agricultural emissions (+12 GtCO2e yr-1) into an active terrestrial sink (-24 GtCO2e yr-1)—achieving net-negative global atmospheric drawdown (-2.0 to -5.0 GtCO2e yr-1) by 2037 while concurrently advancing targets across all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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