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. The unusual and captivating hero of this book is the city. Not an inert mass of buildings, but a collective, a hive, a holarchy that [...]
As the Human Hive navigates the metamorphic threshold from breakdown to breakthrough, the question facing every urban steward is not just how to sustain, but how to regenerate. In his thoughtful post, “10 Reasons Why Urban Environment Stakeholders Should Cultivate Regeneration,” Menno Lammers outlines a compelling case for why cities must evolve beyond extractive [...]
This clutch of blogs explores the thinking and background that goes into developing an Ecovillage as it matures from teenager to young adult: How to re-think the stewardship of Commons? How to transfer land holdings from a founding organization to the community? How to design Governance for a community of organizations? How to develop [...]
This is part of a series of blogs reflecting on the program of Integral Europe Conference 2023, whose theme was Planetary Awakening 2.0. This blog introduces the table of the Change Curve as reflected in the programs and presentations in the following blogs. Integral Europe Conference 2023 (IEC23) provided an experience of how [...]
This is part of a series of blogs reflecting on the program of Integral Europe Conference 2023, whose theme was Planetary Awakening 2.0. This blog introduces the sounds of Change and the Change Curve as the pattern that curates following blogs. The IEC 2023 theme was Planetary Awakening 2.0. As I attended the [...]
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 Power. Celebrating Our Cities as Power Places of Recalibration in 2022-23 If you want to improve the health of a system, connect it to more of [...]
Here is the Integral City 2022 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2022. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 Integral City Meta Blog 2019 Integral City Meta Blog 2018 [...]
When I look over 2022 I am struck not just with the phenomenon of Transitioning at an epochal level. But the year was phenomenally resonant with new connections, reconnections from year’s past and disconnections as new opportunities drew people apart. (See Table below.) The activities around re/dis/new connecting has made the [...]
It isn’t just that this time of year is a naturally transitioning time as we enter Advent in the Christian world, and experience that change of season – in the North presaging Winter with late Fall and in the South pursuing full summer with late Spring. It’s not just that this last quarter [...]
I need a new language to describe what I see going on in the world. Russia is making so-called “non-war” on Ukraine. Ukraine is defending itself from physical military attack and at the same time it is being accused of acting as the instigator of genocide and aggressive action (a fake story from the [...]