Techni offers consulting in innovation in action
to promote inclusive sustainability.
We deeply investigate, innovate and co-create new paths
to prosperity and evolution for all.
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How we work
We support clients and partners to sustain the value creation of their activities when integrating and strengthening their businesses in the sustainability tripod: social, economic and environmental.
Each client has a unique role in the co-creation of an evolutionary path. A new path that contributes to a world where:
- All experience prosperity
- People are valued, have a sense of purpose and experience well-being and fulfilment
- Economic and social development occurs within the limits of the planet, according to the regenerative capacity of nature,
- Collaborative partnerships, which honour the differences and values of all involved, allow the emergence of creative solutions that generate profound impact in individuals, culture and systems.
For the clients who wish, we facilitate network engagement with their stakeholders and offer support in the activation of multiple capital gains from their activities, in addition to the financial: ecological, technological, human, health, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual and knowledge capital. And, also, align the value creation in accordance with the sustainable development goals, the main universal development agenda.
Working in networks
We work as a 4th sector, in a collaborative network with governments, companies, industries, civil society organizations, communities and individuals. We thoroughly investigate, innovate and co-create new pathways to drive deep processes of transformation and change to promote a prosperous, sustainable and regenerative world.
Methodology
The framework that structures Techni’s work integrates the human and social areas and their applications in psychology, sociology, adult development and theories of change, alongside the systemic approach of finance, ecology, public policy, infrastructure, technology, ecology, complex thinking and systems thinking.
Each approach is adapted and customized to the interests and needs of each client.
For clients who wish to deepen and to lead transformational processes with their employees, customers, suppliers and collaborators, we support the co-creation of processes so that their businesses and activities are sustained on 4 pillars, people, planet, purpose and prosperity and are aligned with the sustainable development goals. We broaden the focus on generating monetary value and on the social, economic and environmental tripod to activate all the possible values that the institutional activity can generate:
- Value of individual well-being, both psychological and physical (health and behavioural): people
- Value of the well-being of individuals and the social, economic, technological and environmental progress that occurs in accordance with the regenerative capacity of nature: prosperity
- Value of social and cultural relations and connections that are aligned with the planetary limits: planet
- Value of the meaningfulness of activities for individuals and culture so that they develop and realize their full potential in harmony, individually and collectively: purpose
At the edge with clients and partners
Our services
We work with governments, businesses, civil society organizations, communities and individuals, supporting the co-creation of deep transformation and change processes towards inclusive sustainability practices.
The services, grounded in technical-scientific evidence, focus on consulting in business, environmental, urban development, applications in chemical engineering and human development. To increase the impact of projects, we offer support in the areas of content and communication strategy for dissemination.
- Integrate sustainability as a core part of business
- Support clients in identifying and aligning their purposes so that they have a greater impact on society, culture and the planet’s regeneration
- Maximize and sustain monetary gain from business, promoting prosperity for employees and all stakeholders, according to the regenerative capacity of the planet
- Support measurement of the multiple capital values and impact on individuals, culture and the system
- Support the design and implementation of action aimed at deep adaptation and resilience, considering the current scenarios of climate emergency and resource depletion
- Co-create, introduce and sustain change plans in transition projects such as: redesign of industrial processes, energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy transition, water management, solid waste management, circular economy, shared economy, transport and mobility, infrastructure solutions based on nature and conscious consumption
- Co-create technological and social innovation laboratories engaging governments, companies, civil society
- Support the structuring of fundraising projects
Amplify your impact in your personal life and in society, providing prosperity for all on the planet.
Our Customers
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group was a dedicated client from 2011 to 2018. Working with the mayor’s office of several global megacities, especially Rio de Janeiro, advising the chair of the organization between 2013 and 2016, and coordinating local and global scale projects to promote low-carbon, inclusive and resilient urban development, with several partners, were some of the main focuses.
Engagement and mobilization projects focused on renewable energy, energy efficiency, transportation and mobility, waste management and circular economy, low-carbon urban planning, adaptation and resilience, and carbon management, in addition to participating in the design and delivery of several international events in the context of Rio+20, Climate Week in New York, COP-21 in Paris, COP-23 in Bonn and meetings of C40 mayors in Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City.
Prior to this, other clients included the Manguinhos Oil Refinery (business redesign for biodiesel production), Ouranos Consultoria (biomass energy projects, sustainable tourism, innovations in community projects) and the Forest Peoples Network (carbon measurement and support for agroforestry projects for indigenous communities in the Amazon), the advertising agency Artplan (engagement for sustainability), among others.
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The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle
Janet S. Dickens
Techni’s trajectory
Here, you will find a brief overview of Techni’s trajectory in the form of media links, which contain news about events, projects, lectures, courses and media coverage over the past decade. Visit the gallery.
Interview to Dr Janet Smith Warfield about organic conversations, deep transformation, and Being the Change you want to see in the world.
Interview to journalist Amelia Gonzalez for the G1 website about the life in big cities, how connections can be enhanced and sustainable lifestyle habits.
Interview for “Conteúdo Evolutivo” published by Agência Envolverde on “The role of the individual and culture in a new development paradigm”.
“Transition to a New Development Paradigm. Contribution on pages 32 and 33 in the “Making it Happen” section of the publication organized by Paul van Schaik, integralMENTORS.
“A Vision for Inclusive Sustainable Development”. Contribution on pages 50 to 53 in the “Managing Change” section of the publication organized by Paul van Schaik, integralMENTORS.
Keynote speaker on the panel on Global Policies at the Velo-City event, where I focused on the architecture of change to promote active transport in cities. Photo/ECF
Interview given to “Esquinas: Conversas sobre Cidades” on the themes of sustainability, consumption and change strategy that considers human and cultural aspects. Photo/Esquinas
Panelist at the session “Governance, Inclusion and Transport as a Single System” at the Velo-City event, where I presented a case study on new ways to promote the use of bicycles.
Interview to journalist André Trigueiro for the program Cities and Solutions, Globonews. Intelligent city is built with conscious citizens Photo/GloboNews
Participation in the event GloboNews Prisma, festival of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability that I shared about the main aspects of a “smart” city Photo/Globonews
During COP-23, announcement of the creation of the Urban Leadership Group of the Coalition for Urban Transition, to which I collaborated in the design, engagement and creation of the governance structure
I identified the supplier of biomethanization technology and mobilized a partnership to implement a pilot plant in Rio de Janeiro. The project was selected in the C40 Cities Solution Platform.
Contribution to the article “Sustainability and Quality of Life in Greater Cities”, in the publication organized by the Museum of Tomorrow “Thinking Tomorrow” (pages 50 – 57).
Assisted the participation of the C40 Chair during the biannual conference of mayors in Mexico City in 2016.
Assisted the participation of the C40 Chair in several events during the COP-21 in Paris in 2015.
Participation in an internal C40 meeting in Denmark with the presence of Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London, founder of C40.
Support to the City of Rio de Janeiro and the C40 Executive team in the engagement for the participation of C40 mayors in an event coordinated by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican.
Participation in climate leadership training by the Climate Leadership Corps in Rio de Janeiro in November 2014. Photo/Climate Reality
Assisted the participation of the C40 Chair in the biannual C40 meeting of mayors in Johannesburg in 2014.
Support for the announcement of the C40 Chair transition at a press conference in New York, Nov 2013
1st Intl Seminar on Energy Efficiency of Heavy Vehicles. In the event was presented the eco-efficient driving program that I structured and managed in partnership with Coppe, CNT,SEST/SENAC & COMLURB.
Support for the project to reduce emissions from the refuse truck fleet of the Companhia Municipal de Limpeza Urbana of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Support for the expansion of non-motorized transportation in Rio de Janeiro. Co-author of an article with former director ITDP Brazil, and President of the NGO Transporte Ativo on the use of cargo bicycles.
Contribution to the publication “Low Carbon Technologies Can Transform the Bus Fleets in Latin America”, where I coordinated the testing phase in Rio de Janeiro and structured partnerships.
Blog for C40 with an overview of the panel that I moderated at the Rio+C40 event “Megacity Mayors Taking Action on Climate Change” on adaptation and climate risk assessment.
Blog for C40 where I presented results of all C40 activities during Rio+20.
Supported the conception, organization and implementation of the Rio+C40 event during Rio+20 in collaboration with the executive management of C40 and the Rio City Hall. Photo Publius Vergilius, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blog for C40: “Countdown to Rio+20”
Technical assistance and support mobilizing resources for retrofitting the traffic light system in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Article co-authored with the Engineering Traffic Company.
Blog contribution to C40: Is climate change a fight or an opportunity?
Engagement for the city of Rio de Janeiro to participate in the C40 network to incorporate sustainable urban principles and nature-based solutions. In the photo, rain garden in Melbourne.
Start of the hybrid bus testing program in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which I coordinated with the City, bus manufacturers, Cenpes/ Petrobras, bus concessionaire, university and C40 management.
Support to the participation of the delegation of the city of Rio in the event C40 Large Cities – Climate Summit in São Paulo.
Internal meeting to present the role of the City Director to the C40 Steering Committee and the Executive Management. On this occasion, the announcement of the merger between CCI and C40 was made.
Articulation and engagement so that Green Building Council Brazil could collaborate in the development of sustainability criteria that would guide the construction/renovation of the 2016 Olympic Games venues.
In partnership with the Green Initiative, greenhouse gas emissions were neutralized for the marathon organized by DreamFactory in Rio de Janeiro in 2008. Photo/Radical Focus
Technical visit to the Ashaninka Association of the Ammonia River, Acre. Advising the Forest Peoples Network to identify opportunities to strengthen the community by supporting agroforestry activities.