Marilyn Hamilton talks to host John Schmidt of Avastone Consulting re Integral City on Zoomd Radio. Click here for the link. We talked about the Integral City as the Human Hive - and how that enables Leadership, Relationships and Resilience. Examples that were used included New Orleans and Burning Man. Listen to the broadcast or download it [...]
I have been watching the outcome (or not?) of the recent Australian election with some interest. I have been thinking about swarming (as in what can we learn from the bees when they swarm?). My bee sources (books, articles, movies) tell me that the swarming process is a kind of hive decision. That when it [...]
I have posted to the website the Research Report on Mapping Abbotsford's Values and Developing an Integral Vital Signs Monitor. This 2010 research updates the reserach I completed in 2003. You can read the full study at https://integralcity.com/discovery-zone/research.html This study contributed Knowledge and Development Exchange (KDE) for a Welcoming and Inclusive Communities and Work Places [...]
In the last decade the concept of the city as a human habitat that is mapped in terms of bricks and mortar, managed by fiat from city hall and developed by entrepreneurs for corporate profit has given faint signals of change. This has happened because we have witnessed the city collapse underneath the weight of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you want to find out how complex the relationship between ecology, water resources and human food supplies is becoming, check out this item on Endangerd Species Act Ruling and food production in California. In order to even grasp the players in this scenario one has to gain some altitude and look at it systemically. It [...]
In the Human Hive, we need truth, beauty and goodness to sustain our capacities and encourage creative impulses. It is not always easy to find them in cities designed from pre-modern, modern and post-modern design principles. Someone who is committed to changing that is Mark Dekay, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, University of [...]
2010 Welcome to the Decade of the Human Hive, in the Century of the City; may evolutionary intelligence emerge for people, place, planet 6:12 PM Jan 1st from web 2000-2009 Decade of Glocal City Evolution - integral depths, climatic contexts, renewable energy strategies - order emerging from chaos 12:08 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from web [...]
Every New Year needs an inspiring sermon to put life into perspective. At this start to the new decade and with a need for something more than bland resolutions, to repair that which has not worked from the last decade, I like the message in recent sermon by Bruce Sanguin, Founder of the Evolutionary Christian Centre, at [...]