This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Power. The reality of the (modern) city is that the issues of consciousness, intention and responsibility are the gateways of understanding, preventing and transforming material challenges because the [...]
Integral City nominates Paris as City of the Year 2015. Paris is the city featured on the cover of the Integral City book. Integral City :Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive The City of the Year is a new – but natural award for us to make. We have recognized the importance of [...]
I have been mesmerized into muteness regarding Paris since the November 13 attacks. Je Suis Paris A strange sensation like holding my breath has overtaken me – a kind of numbness and muteness. Writing has happened only in my head – and even then without much coherence. Funny, since I was impelled to [...]
Travel broadens the mind. And when we can’t do it in reality, a good movie or documentary can open perspectives and even create a longing to visit more exotic places in far reaches of the world. But with a little imagination we can bring a new appreciation for the beauty goodness and truth that surround [...]
What better way to celebrate Canada Day than to flash the fireworks of July 1 onto the 4 Quadrants of Canada's cohort of Integral Leaders? ©2014 Aboriginal Nations Education, Greater Victoria School Board, BC, CanadaArtist Jamin ZurowskiBear/UL. Wolf /LL. Raven/UR. Salmon/LR.This Totem is a Gift used with permission on this Canada Issue. Please do reproduce without [...]
Pope Francis thinks as big as a Planet of Integral Cities. Pope Francis has gifted the world with a Kosmic view of the environment and the implications for climate change. He instructs the faithful that God has not given dominion to man to dominate the environment but to respect all Life. He explicates what Integral [...]
Several months ago, Centre for Human Emergence - Canada colleagues visited Abbotsford, BC and we held a small retreat in the Solarium of Garden Park Tower (GPT). We took our breakfasts and lunches in the Rose Room Café. Friends Dining in Rose Room Cafe My friends really enjoyed the energy of GPT and [...]
Last year I moved with my husband Peter Dobson, to Garden Park Tower (GPT), Garden Park Tower We moved from Cedar Springs Country Estate (town homes) on the east side of Abbotsford BC, where we lived for 21 years. We had travelled only 15 minutes distance across town, but it seemed like a new [...]
When Integral City is asked to work with cities, inevitably the invitation comes from leaders who have in mind the wellbeing of their city. Integral City Compass Tam Lundy’s leadership tip (offered in Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change) explains this impulse in terms of the desire of [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Planet. Popular wisdom urges us to examine human behavior so that the quality of human life can be improved. We focus on overpopulation, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions [...]