"If you knew she could feel, you would stop," says Charles Eisenstein about the living Earth. We met at the Climate Change and Consciousness CCC19 conference at Findhorn Scotland. Charles made it very clear in his plenary keynote, workshop and new book "Climate" that he agreed with James Lovelock that Earth was a living [...]
After reading Scale by Geoffrey West, I am deeply impressed by his research, even though it appears that I have some fundamental disagreement with some of his conclusions. West argues for a framework of scaling cities (and other complex adaptive systems) that includes four core properties. His treatise is to my sensibilities so [...]
I have been following the work of Geoffrey West through the scholarly articles that have been sent my way, by Integral City readers who could see the application of his research to the frameworks, patterns and dynamics I had described in Book 1, (Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive) and applied in [...]
Finally, a book on the science of cities!! Geoffrey West’s Scale explains the universal laws that govern cities and how growth, innovation, sustainability, companies and economies contribute to the patterns of city dynamics. Every couple of years a new book is published that corroborates key tenets that Integral City has framed for cities [...]
Je Suis Charlie may be the most potent vaccine for an Ebola of the Human Soul that has been eating away the flesh of the human psyche since the first acts of terror were shouted in the name of Allahu Akbar. God is Great. God is Good. But the God [...]
Let's recap core blogs that explore the Principles that could guide a Planet of Integral Cities. Recently we explored the evolutionary context of the life-giving Principles of Anthro-Bio-Cosmo emergence (thanks to Integral Geographer Dr. Brian Eddy). In a much earlier blog we introduced the Principles of Living Systems (developed by Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris) Then we [...]
Principles for a Planet of Cities underlie the Intelligences that enable the generation of Capitals for the Human Hive. Principles for Planet of Cities I have written extensively about the Intelligences that are needed to consciously and conscientiously evolve any given city. Much of the literature on sustainability has addressed the Capitals of [...]
This exploration of core principles that can inform a Planet of Cities, needs to be unpacked in two ways so it is useful for our inquiry. First let's define what a principle is and second let's set the scope of what we will consider in this series of explorations. We start with the definition. Oxford Online [...]
Indicators of wellbeing have been a fascination of mine for many decades. Today I am contemplating the indicator of happiness - as in "Could I die happy today?" The EU calls and I have my powerpoint bags packed with all the trends that show the Big Picture of Global Sustainability to share with Experience Integral [...]