We are starting a new season of Integral City Telecourse Training, with The Map, the Mesh and the Human Hive. This is a three week telecourse. Class size limited to 10 for personalized engagement. Course includes complete Talking Book of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligence for the Human Hive. Learn how to see the city as [...]
I have posted to the website the Research Report on Mapping Abbotsford's Values and Developing an Integral Vital Signs Monitor. This 2010 research updates the reserach I completed in 2003. You can read the full study at https://integralcity.com/discovery-zone/research.html This study contributed Knowledge and Development Exchange (KDE) for a Welcoming and Inclusive Communities and Work Places [...]
In the last decade the concept of the city as a human habitat that is mapped in terms of bricks and mortar, managed by fiat from city hall and developed by entrepreneurs for corporate profit has given faint signals of change. This has happened because we have witnessed the city collapse underneath the weight of [...]
Globe Award 2010 – Leading Sustainability Awards The Brazilian city Curitiba awarded the Globe Sustainable City Award 2010 STOCKHOLM, April 7, 2010 − The Brazilian city Curitiba wins the Globe Sustainable City Award 2010. The city of Curitiba is awarded for excellent sustainable urban development. The Globe Award statuette will be presented to representatives from [...]
PRESS RELEASE Globe Award 2010 – Leading Sustainability Awards The world’s best sustainable cities in the running for Globe Sustainable City Award 2010 STOCKHOLM, March 23, 2010 − Six cities extensively working in the sustainability area have been nominated for the Globe Sustainable City Award 2010. The City Award − one of four categories of [...]
This artcle in Vancouver gives updated information about the role of honey bees in human systems -- particularly the food system. It points out the disrespect we (the most evolved species of vertebrates) pay the species that is the most evolved species of invertabrates. You can learn more about the lessons bees have for humans in [...]
I have begun to reframe the results of Copenhagen Climate Forum in light of my experience over the years with changing the political will/mind. Two decades ago, in the small city where I live, I served as President of the Chamber of Commerce. Actually the Chamber served two municipalities which had grown together so closely [...]
Vancouver is contemplated by Kim Murphy from the shadows of Los Angeles, for both its sustainable pluses and its sustainable cautions. As Vancouver is in the final month to the Winter Olympics, it will be interesting to see how its commitment to sustainability is played out for the world to see and consider whether it [...]
If you want to find out how complex the relationship between ecology, water resources and human food supplies is becoming, check out this item on Endangerd Species Act Ruling and food production in California. In order to even grasp the players in this scenario one has to gain some altitude and look at it systemically. It [...]
In the Human Hive, we need truth, beauty and goodness to sustain our capacities and encourage creative impulses. It is not always easy to find them in cities designed from pre-modern, modern and post-modern design principles. Someone who is committed to changing that is Mark Dekay, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, University of [...]