Findhorn stands as both a **laboratory** and a **beacon**: a small-scale, spiritually rooted, regenerative ecology that mirrors the dynamics of whole cities and contributes to the healing of meta-crises at planetary scale. This series of blogs will explore key themes that emerged from Marilyn Hamilton’s interview with Ruby Livingston in early September 2025. [...]
Where has the Blogger in Chief been for the last couple of months? True confessions - I have been contributing in various ways to the life of Park Ecovillage Findhorn (and assisting Learning Cities. Earth to expand into a Swiss Association (Verein) and Community Interest Company (CIC in Scotland - but those are another [...]
Cities that thrive operate as living systems designed for wellbeing as innovation ecosystems. Book 2 in our Integral City series outlines processes to achieve innovation and wellbeing impact through Placecaring and Placemaking in the ecosystem of the city. Those processes are grounded in Elisabet Sahtouris’ Principles of Living Systems. They give us a [...]
It looks like Neo-Cities are on the drawing boards – and even before Investor Boards. I wonder if the investors will consider similar aspects of investing in cities as they do in entrepreneurial start-ups? Especially the importance of the organizational team? In entrepreneurial ventures the quality of the people generally outweighs the most clever of [...]
Why Not Just Privatize the Government? Why not privatize city government? Jane Jacobs described two moral syndromes necessary for a human social system to survive – one called Guardian and the other called Commercial. She argued that mixing their ethics created “monstrous hybrids” that were immoral and subversive to life. Reframing these syndromes from an [...]
Emergent Intelligence is the intelligence that drives resilience. This gives the city the qualities of aliveness: it not only survives, but it adapts and regenerates. This intelligence enables the city to emerge as the bio-psycho-cultural-social behaviors, intentions, relationships and systems of its citizens interact with the environment they co-create as well as the eco-regional environment [...]