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 People. International developer Gail Hochachka proposes that people’s feelings, beliefs and worldviews affect how they are ready and willing to participate in sustainable behaviors (2005, p. 1). Moreover, she [...]
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 [...]
Make walking delightful! That was the advice of the city planners who visited Abbotsford, BC in February as part of the Abbotsforward City Planning Strategy. Their argument was that walking benefitted both individual health and city wellbeing. (Studies show that walking is the single most health producing activity we can practise.) 50 Shades of [...]
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 [...]
Integral City is sponsoring three Pop-Up Playground lunches at Integral Theory Conference 2015. Our high impact constellation process will be supplied!! Joining MetaIntegral's Integral Theory Conference for its fourth international event (and sponsoring the conference for the third time) Integral City has designed Pop-Up Playgrounds for three lunch times on July 17, 18, 19. In Ballroom [...]
INTEGRAL CITY INVITATION TO 1TC2015 In Ballroom B at ITC there is a public square that invites you - heart and soul. Join Integral City for a nourishing lunch once, twice or three times - as we prototype a unique unconference with integral impact. Feed Self. Spark Others. Serve Community. What to expect - with ITC/IC co-creation: [...]
ITC2015 Early Bird April 12, 13 INTEGRAL CITY INVITES YOU ======================================= In downtown ITC there is a public square that invites you - heart and soul. Join Integral City for a nourishing lunch once, twice or three times - as we prototype a unique unconference with integral impact. Feed Self. Spark Others. Serve [...]
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 [...]
Out beyond the smart city, out beyond the resilient city, Lives the Integral City. Integral City Thinking Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change, by Tam Lundy, that acted as a Guide to appreciating all the articles. Tam’s Tip gave the reader an energy boost as you passed [...]
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 [...]