Uncategorized

28 02, 2011

RRU Faculty & Students Sustain Community Development Using Integrative, Integral & Evolutionary Models

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:39+00:00February 28th, 2011|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, F. Training, Global/Worldcentric, Uncategorized|Tags: Climate change, Dr. Ann Dale, Dr. Graeme Taylor, Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, evolution, integral, Royal Roads University, sustainability|0 Comments

At Royal Roads University, the inaugural Sustainable Community Development (SCD) cohort has just completed their first Potentials for Adaptive Change Residency on RRU Campus. In the first week of February, after three weeks online, a cohort, with professions as varied as municipal forester, downtown revitalization director, tourism instructor and sustainability officer, whose members come from [...]

21 02, 2011

Internet Connections Create Tipping Points in Cities

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:39+00:00February 21st, 2011|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Barnett, complexity, connections, Gladwell, integral city intelligences, internet, map, revolution, virus|2 Comments

Revolution is spreading through the north African and Middle Eastern countries - the inflammation has started in cities and spreads to other cities. Why are these cities the nodes of contagion? I can't help notice that all these cities (and nations) were on Thomas Barnett's New Map in 2004. He included them in his proposition [...]

28 01, 2011

One City: A Clash of Healths

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:39+00:00January 28th, 2011|Categories: Level 7 Yellow, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Uncategorized|Tags: health, meshwork, wellbeing|2 Comments

Further to my interview with Will Varey in Perth about emergence in the city (also see Blog) we talked about the dilemma that in one location we have multiple cities. Effectively each citizen carries around a unique mental model of the city and through the magic of self-organizing systems we negotiate this complex territory. The [...]

19 12, 2010

2010 has been a transition gateway year

By Marilyn Hamilton|2010-12-19T20:11:01+00:00December 19th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

2010 has been a transition gateway year - like 2000 was. What is it in our human psyche that marks the aught (0 ending) years for change?

18 05, 2010

Cities 2020 – Kedgeforward

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:42+00:00May 18th, 2010|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Level 7 Yellow, Lifecycle, Uncategorized|Tags: future cities, human hive, integral, integral city intelligences|0 Comments

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 [...]

1 05, 2010

Curitiba Wins Globe Sustainable City Award

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:43+00:00May 1st, 2010|Categories: Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, Global/Worldcentric, Integral Maps, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Uncategorized|Tags: Globe Award, integral city intelligences, sustainability|0 Comments

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 [...]

10 12, 2009

Nominate Your City for Sustainable City Award

By Marilyn Hamilton|2009-12-10T06:05:00+00:00December 10th, 2009|Categories: Building - Structures, Emergence, Inquiry, Level 7 Yellow, Uncategorized|Tags: award, sustainability|0 Comments

Globe Award 2010 – Leading Sustainability Awards Sustainable cities can be nominated for international award STOCKHOLM, NOVEMBER 23, 2009: Globe Awards will be presented for the fourth consecutive time at the annual gala at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm April 29th, 2010. The applications will be viewed in four categories: research, innovation, city and reporting. The [...]

16 11, 2009

Green Building Standard in Cascadia

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:44+00:00November 16th, 2009|Categories: Building - Structures, Ecosphere, Level 6 Green, Uncategorized|Tags: Green building|1 Comment

New Standard Addresses Social Justice, Urban Agriculture and Community Scale Impacts Download the challenge 2.0: www.ilbi.org (International Living Building Institute) Story: http://www.cityfarmer.info/?p=2643(Phoenix, AZ) Nov. 10, 2009 The newest iteration of the Living Building Challenge was released today at Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual conference. The International Living Building Institute (ILBI), in conjunction [...]

25 08, 2009

A Fountain of Evolutionary Insights for Mayors and Public Officials

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:44+00:00August 25th, 2009|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, G. Levels: Developmental/Evolutionary, Level 7 Yellow, Level 8 Turquoise, Uncategorized|Tags: integral city intelligences, meshwork, Resources for Mayors|0 Comments

I feel like I am standing in the centre of an Integral City Square with a Fountain of Integral Insights spraying life-giving rainbows that can refresh a mayor's way of thinking in these hot fires of summer. Not surprisingly, this fountain I see, has four quadrants -- all issuing flows of emerging wisdom that seem to be tapping a deep [...]

14 04, 2009

Welcome to Integral City Blog

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:45+00:00April 14th, 2009|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Greetings Integral City-zens Life is moving too quickly for just a newsletter or an ezine -- so I've finally moved to create a Blog. This blog has old memes in it, as I originally set it up to invite readers to review early drafts of the Integral City book. Once I learn the ropes here, [...]