With great gratitude to the gifts and lessons learned from three leaders who embodied so many of Integral City Intelligences, we remember with sadness the passing of Dr. Don Beck, Hazel Henderson and Dr. Brenda Dunne. See Newsletter editorial for Integral City particular expressions of appreciation. In Memorian: Dr. Don Edward Beck [...]
by Guest Blogger Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD evolution biologist and futurist, Advisor to Integral City. Elisabet notes the visual similarities of naturally evolved biological cells and cities with long histories, and makes an actual comparison of the two as complex adaptive living entities in evolution. She concludes that cities have greater evolutionary potential for leading us into [...]
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen If City 2.0 is to support more life-giving options for behaviours, intentions, cultures and systems, City Economics 2.0 will have to emerge as an integral part of the whole. A pessimist would say we have been witnessing the disintegration of the old economy in [...]