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 capacity to rapidly respond and evolve into new ways of being and becoming together. Research is showing that caring is [...]
WUW 2021 potentiates a Planet of Integral Cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organ system. WUW 2021 calls forth eight capacities in service to Gaia’s peace and wellbeing for all our cities and ecoregions. Despite the challenges we face in a VUCA world, any and all cities can generate and regenerate positive qualities for Unity and [...]
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 Place. Fundamentally, I consider that Placecaring and Placemaking are inextricably interlinked into a whole. But, the way that I have learned to hold that whole, is [...]
The Integral City Framework reveals fractal patterns of Gaia. It is built on Universal patterns and principles. So, when we discover it, we are blessed with the opportunity to explore what is the Integral City Framework (ICF) good for? ICF is especially good for “wicked” problems – where the interconnections and non-linearities of [...]
Gaia in her wisdom has created us as a fractal of her patterns. Like her we have organs made from the substances of her creation: we are bone of her bone, flesh of her flesh, heart of her heart and mind of her mind. So, in contemplating a City of Peace we must [...]
Gaia as a living being has organs for her body, brain, mind and heart. Great rivers, lakes and oceans are her veins and arteries. Rocks and mountains her skeleton. Prairies and soil are her skin. Fungi, mycelium, microbes and insects are her metabolic tracts. Forests, plants and gardens her lungs. Animals are her animators, [...]
Integral City attended Global Ecovillage Network Europe 2019 Conference in Banaigh, Italy in July. We sat on a panel focusing on Ecology. But before, during and after our sessions GEN graphic facilitators recorded the conference panels in 4 Graphics. We share them below. This short blog series explores our experience at and [...]
Remembrance Day has traditionally commemorated human life lost in defense of our freedoms. We long for Peace. World Peace Flame, Palace of Peace, den Haag, NL But as our worlds have expanded the dimensions of space, time and moral influence, so too have we expanded the “reach” of peace. We have grown Traditional [...]
How do you celebrate Remembrance Day in a community that does not believe in war? Peace Palace den Haag, NL It’s a question I have never asked myself, until I moved into a community designed by the Mennonites. I knew they opposed the (Abbotsford) air show because it promoted war planes/machinery. And I [...]