At the Building Sustainable Communities conference, accelerating the development of leaders, was the topic of a three-way lunch, I enjoyed with Milenko Matanovic (Founder of the Pomegranate Center) and Michael Simpson (Founder of One Sky). We were all curious about how to do that and what had worked in our lived experience as leadership development designers. Milenko related the [...]
September Equinox Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for City Embodiment : The carrying capacity for each city is intimately tied to its eco-region, even though cities have attempted to import their needs from increasingly distant locations. (Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.152) [...]
At Royal Roads University, the inaugural Sustainable Community Development (SCD) cohort has just completed their first Potentials for Adaptive Change Residency on RRU Campus. In the first week of February, after three weeks online, a cohort, with professions as varied as municipal forester, downtown revitalization director, tourism instructor and sustainability officer, whose members come from [...]
I spent last week at Royal Roads University delivering the first Residency of the Sustainability Graduate Certificate. Ten students from across Canada provided a rigorous proving ground for the Integral City approach to sustainability. Using the Integral City Compass to prove the design with three leverage points, here is what we did. Integral City Compass [...]
February Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Heart : Through the negotiation of relationships, boundaries are recognized, linked, crossed, embraced, broken, denied and redefined. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.182 As I write, the clashes in the Middle East have the rest [...]