Sometimes life delivers a tiny sign that hums with meaning. Recently, my housemate Judy found a new £1 coin — freshly minted for 2023 — celebrating the humble honey bee. On one side, the portrait of King Charles III; on the other, the intricate design of bees gathering around a honeycomb. What caught [...]
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 summer unfurls across the Northern Hemisphere, and winter expands across the Southern hemisphere, the natural world reminds us: transformation is not linear. It is a dance of unfolding — messy, mysterious, and necessary. In the same way that caterpillars surrender to the chrysalis, cities around the world are entering their own season of [...]
In prior blogs, Integral City has explored how the city is broken and how it can be healed. In the Guardian (Feb. 19, 2025) Bernie Sanders is setting out to walk the land as he proposes critical dimensions of healing for the brokenness in America. Because most Americans live in cities, Sanders is essentially offering [...]
We continue the story of Ecovillage Findhorn seeking its Community Purpose and Aims. Last Sunday, at another community gathering, we moved on from exploring Purpose to defining Primary Aims. Guided by Gordon McAlpine/NFA and Tessa Brock/EF, we welcomed back 55 Questors including 11 Harvest Hosts. In groups of 5 we took the challenge [...]
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 [...]
Have cities been created by humans or have they been evolved by Gaia as organs to enable consciousness at a scale that upshifts Gaia’s intelligence? Humans as a relatively young species have imagined that we control the world. If we are in service to Gaia, it must be we who create capacities that have [...]
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. Communities and cities who care have the capaocity to rapidly respond and evolve into new ways of being and becoming together. Research is showing that [...]
From the Manchester area our pilgrimage continued to Knaresborough announced with the exuberance of a poster circulated by Amanda Faulkner to city Voices, inviting them to celebrate Knaresborough on the Global Stage. Amanda is not only a grad of Integral City Beyond Resilient, but also a Community Action Network with aspirations to implement Donut [...]
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de St. Exupery This is a story about how Gaia is calling from her four directions hearts, minds and souls to [...]