Centre for Regeneration ONEness Freedom Truth
Introducing the Novella Series: Tales of the CROFT Regenerators
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03, 2022
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12, 2021
Integral City Ecosystem: 10 Years Incubating Gaia’s Human Hives
10 years ago, Integral City sponsored the first major outreach project after the publication of the first book in the Integral City book series (2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive). We called our online initiative Integral City 2.0 Online Conference or ELab 2012 for short. Before Zoom was ubiquitous, we [...]
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12, 2021
Dear Earth – Integral City Treasures Dedicated to You
Dear Earth, Dear Earth, let me tell you how I feel. You have given me such treasure. I love you so. The above refrain is a simple Taizé song that awakens my growing edges. Because it honours my relationship to the Earth that birthed all Life, including me, it opens my heart to [...]
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08, 2021
Choose Earth Now
Duane Elgin sets out the steps we can take to Choose Earth in the most positive way possible. Elgin proposes we do the following in order to Choose Earth as our future (p.155): Awaken to aliveness Cultivate our true gifts Be deeply informed Protect and restore nature Grieve losses Practice reconciliation Choose simplicity [...]
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08, 2021
Donut Economics Energizes a Planet of Integral Cities
Kate Raworth’s Donut Economics provides the foundation for a Planet of Integral Cities to see themselves both internally through what you call placecaring and placemaking, but also externally through the interaction with other cities in the world and how they enable social justice and Earth system balance. As Integral City recognized AAmsterdam as [...]
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08, 2021
Wisdom of Living Systems from Elisabet Sahtouris
A natural sequence for the creative renewal of the city involves the key steps of: Discovery, Strategic Planning, Contexting Sustainability & Resilience, Connecting & Communicating and Governing. We can review a city’s approaches to creative placecaring and placemaking with the steps set out 2 below (with parenthetic links to the numbered sequence of the [...]
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08, 2021
Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (12) Conclusion
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Conclusions MH: Thank you Gaia. I can see that Integral City evolution for the next century starts with a commitment to [...]
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08, 2021
Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (11) New Cities
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. MH: Can you give us some guidance for designing whole new cities? Designing New Cities Gaia: Keeping in mind the challenges [...]
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08, 2021
Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (10) Development
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Development Strategies Gaia Continues: Not surprisingly the roots of Gaia-centric designs for city wellbeing offer us a way of imagining the [...]
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08, 2021
Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (9) Systems Reframe
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Table 1: Paradigms & Levels of Complexity (adapted from D. Beck with permission) MH: If things are this precarious, how can [...]