Dear Marilyn, We have not met but I feel like I know you through your writings. Integral Cities is a important book. I first came to know about your work through Will Varey who spoke of meshworking and linked us to "The Art and Science of Meshworking" . I was stunned and delighted to see the [...]
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 [...]
Hazel Henderson reports that Neuromarketing is invading the corporate ethic. She connects the insidious practise of utilizing fMRI scans (and other neuro penetration technology) to fine tune marketing messages for the use of politicians and corporate interests . Along with the US Supreme Court decision to lift the restraints on corporate financing, this practise has the [...]
In these days of visible homelessness in Haiti under circumstances of extreme duress, it is good to hear of some breakthroughs in preventing homelessness in the US. Read about how short term assistance for rent supports and re-housing initiatives is helping 100's of thousands in the US. http://www.pantagraph.com/business/article_49c32b6a-022f-11df-a4b9-001cc4c03286.html WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In rural communities and [...]
I just followed a link to a beautiful musical creation. This is a very purple song to the core -- or maybe this way, produced by a mobile recording studio that spanned the globe -- maybe it's Turquoise??? The producer has recorded very talented buskers and a host of back-up musicians from around the world, [...]
I've been watching the series on New York produced by Ric Burns (released through PBS but available as a DVD). It is an impressive revelation of the city's 400 years of history. Last week I watched the episode exploring the massive infrastructure creations of Robert Moses including his hundred of miles of turnpikes that decimated [...]
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is an intriguing film of an unintended case study. It chronicles the radical life condition change that was triggered in Cuba by the break up of the Soviet empire and Cuba’s loss of Soviet support, markets and imports in 1990-92. This was further exacerbated by the [...]
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 [...]
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.