This blog is the second prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Evolutionary Intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences we currently demonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge. Evolutionary Intelligence is an impulse present at the centre of our Integral City compass, that springs [...]
Today 's cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow's cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today's activists demonstrate their beliefs through confrontive action. They stand up against injustices, rules, authorities and infrastructure by blocking access for as many people as possible. They are willing to threaten power, throw projectiles and thrust their bodies [...]
Civil Society 2.0 has new power because it is integrating new relationships and a Manifesto for Evolutionary Freedom with social media 2.0. This is creating new resonance and coherence for glocal wellbeing, social justice and environmental sustainability in the human hive. The song sheet that Civil Society is co-creating is quickly emerging new music for all of us in the Integral City [...]
Designing healthcare systems that serve the wellbeing of Integral City 2.0 begins with remembering "health" comes from the same root as the word "whole". Healthcare in the human hive is based on the principles of Life and Evolution . Wholistic healthcare systems are rooted in natural science and embody values and cultural intentions. Principles that contribute to appropriate [...]
Evolutionary Enlightenment, by Andrew Cohen is a refreshingly enlivening read that aligns well with the Evolutionary Intelligences of Integral City. Cohen, starts with the traditional path of enlightenment as the starting place for practitioners to achieve a deep knowing of the evolutionary experience of the "Big Bang". His description of this as not only a scientific proposition, [...]
Almere NL, a city of 190,000 is getting ready for a "scale jump" to double in size by 2030. Seeking guidelines to renew and transform itself, in 2008, it invited Cradle to Cradle authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart to craft principles by which the city could grow sustainably in balance with its unique polder environment and [...]
As a follow up to my blog on the Systems and Resilience Cycles for the Restoration of Sendai, Integral City Spiritual Advisor, Terry Patten blogs a much needed set of practices for dealing with the News - good, bad and otherwise. Terry says: "The news so far during 2011 has been particularly electrifying: Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, [...]
This is An Open Letter to Three Women Imagineers of the Integral Age On The Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Dear Drs. Hazel Henderson, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Houston I claimed I was never a feminist in the 60’s or 70’s. That’s because I didn’t see myself as an activist [...]
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 [...]
I had another brush with fear yesterday when I read the Climate Primer released by the Melbourne Climate Action Centre called 4 Degrees Hotter. Ironically I had just finished teaching at Royal Roads University, the inaugural Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate, with a Challenge focused on a Climate Action Plan for a BC City. I had completed the literature [...]