Is information becoming revalued? - so that the more often it is exchanged the more valuable it becomes?? I have been having an interesting conversation with a GenX information packager and distributor. We have been talking about presenters giving away all the presentations from a conference for free. I come from the Boomer generation where we were taught that the scarcity of [...]
Congratulations to Barrett Brown who just defended his dissertation on Leadership for Sustainability. Barrett designed an integral methodology to study integrally-informed leaders working in sustainability. His Findings differentiate amongst leaders who work on the system (Strategists), with the system (Alchemists) and as the system (Ironists). This research illuminates the path of both consciousness and action as [...]
Dr. Clare Graves(1) (and many researchers since) proposed that human values systems emerged in alternating stages of Individualistic expression and Collectivist embrace. He had the insight to propose that evidence would be found in the biological domains (as well as psychological and social) long before technology like fMRI scanning had been invented. Graves proposition is fundamental to [...]
P 1. Ecosphere Intelligence 1. Honor the climate and geography of your city. 2. Steward the environment. 3. Add value to the Earth space. P 2. Emerging Intelligence 1. Survive so holons serve each other’s existence. 2. Adapt to the environment. 3. Create a self-regenerating feedback loop, by interconnecting human regeneration cycles so that they [...]
Last week Almere Netherlands was the location of my learning and the focus of my attention. Attending the fifth Centre for Human Emergence, NL, fifth Spiral Dynamics Integral Confab, Almere was featured in case studies to explore the city with Integral City related lenses. Almere was created as a New Town, 30 years ago, using [...]
I spent last week at Royal Roads University delivering the first Residency of the Sustainability Graduate Certificate. Ten students from across Canada provided a rigorous proving ground for the Integral City approach to sustainability. Using the Integral City Compass to prove the design with three leverage points, here is what we did. Integral City Compass [...]
February Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Heart : Through the negotiation of relationships, boundaries are recognized, linked, crossed, embraced, broken, denied and redefined. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.182 As I write, the clashes in the Middle East have the rest [...]
How is a masterfully crafted and portrayed story like Downton Abbey (currently being aired on PBS Masterpiece Theatre) an analog for today's down town world scene? Set in an English stately home just before WWI, the story is about the shifting of worldviews from traditional to modern. It uses cracks in the system of land/estate ownership, class and gender [...]
Rumi said that "for every garden we tend without, we tend 10,000 gardens within". Such is the power of consciousness. It is our leverage beyond the material world into an imaginary/imagining world with infinite possibilities and directions for growth. I am always looking for the natural laboratories that show us how communities self-organize and emerge into [...]
At the World Planners Congress (WPC), in June, 2006 I witnessed a notable public paradigm shift when Planning Leaders from around the world issued a position paper on the New Urban Planning (Farmer et al., 2006). In 2006, the authors stated that New Urban Planning was smart planning because it is a responsive learning system. [...]