The Story of Stuff, is Annie Leonard’s impassioned plea for people to understand that the Earth is a closed system. That the cycle of harvesting/pillaging natural resources; manufacuturing; distributing; using; trashing is an ignorant failure to understand the natural cycles of life on earth. That the trash is going nowhere, and it is time [...]
I've just listened to the Wisdom Radio interviews of Jim Garrison with Bill McKibben, (author of Deep Economy) and Lester Brown (author of Plan B 3.0). Both authors are talking about a decisive metric that has been scientifically confirmed (by IPCC and others) that creates a super-ordinate goal that cities need to subscribe to. It [...]
Integral health is emerging in Vancouver, BC in the Inspire Health Integrated Cancer Care clinic. Check it out at http://www.inspirehealth.ca/ . This service was started 11 years ago by Dr. Hal Gunn and co-founders. It has now served over 5000 patients directly and through the "prescriptions" by which every doctor in BC can refer their patients to Inspire [...]
Tom Brokaw's op ed on small town spending suggests that if the private sector organization GM is going to be reinvented , then what is sauce for the industrial goose is sauce for the government gander. He proposes that major savings can be achieved by reconfiguring and recombining multiple small town and county services. The interesting aspect of [...]
Bruce Sanguin, pastor of Canadian Memorial Church & Centre for Peace in Vancouver, BC. author of "Darwin,Divinity and the Dance of the Cosmos" is inviting leaders in the city church to don new lenses. In The Emerging Church: A Model for Change & a Map of Renewal Sanguin has created a practical guide for congregations [...]
This article illustrates the twelve intelligences identified in Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive (Hamilton, 2008) through the work of architect Teddy Cruz. The author discusses Cruz’s socially responsible architectural practice in terms of each intelligence and demonstrates how he transcends and includes traditional, modern and post modern mindsets into an integral evolutionary paradigm.