Two years ago this blog suggested that Cuba offered a great case study for Cities Under Peak Oil conditions. Subsequent to that blog Jim Garrison interviewed me for Integral Life about my book Integral City. We talked about The New Cuban Revolution: how the fairly surprising case study of Havana, Cuba offered insights to the sustainability discussion. After the fall of [...]
Are economics and technological factors sufficient to incubate innovation and sustainability? At least they are a start to consider the importance of cities to organizational success. That was a recent focus of Greenbiz forum where the growing recognition that the wellbeing of cities is an underlying condition for the success of organizations. Drawing from a [...]
Integral City proposes that all cities have a purpose that serves Earth's sustainability and wellbeing. Glimmers that the value of purpose are breaking through into the world of organizational and business scorecards are showing up in the news and financial presss. The Toronto Board of Trade just released a report showing how 7 major U.S. [...]
Spring Equinox Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkies for City Diversity Generators: What city in the world has developed a course of study and practise that enables a person to methodically progress from cradle to peak prformance at the defined levels of complexity that deliver leadership to the powers 1 through [...]
Integral City eLaboratory: Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive “Humans are Gaia’s reflective organ.” James Lovelock Now that 50% of humanity lives in the city - each person is like a cell in Gaia’s reflective organ. 40 cities in the world produce 30% of its wealth … Gaia’s cities belong to a system of [...]
The magic of building community starts with small wins. That is one of the secrets that Milenko Matanovic, Founder of Pomegranate Center, shares with everyone he can. Milenko, speaking at the Building Sustainable Communities Conference, was a gold nugget find!! He complemented my image of the human hive with engaging stories about practical actions that the Pomegranate Center [...]
Come with me on a journey through the eye of beauty across an ocean of grief ... and beyond. Filmmaker Jan Vozenilek of Copper Sky Productions shared one of the most moving stories of human-caused assault on the natural world at the Building Sustainable Communities Conference (BSC) in Kelowna. I have just returned from there and am [...]
This blog is a fifth prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Civic meshworkers who use Integral City integrated sustainable community approaches become part of a multi-stakeholder meshworking brain-trust. We are catalyzing the intelligences of the government, civil society, organizations and academic institutions transplanting resources, assets and ideas [...]
This blog is the fourth prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. Let me tell you about why I am attracted to the story of the human [...]
This blog is the second prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Evolutionary Intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences we currently demonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge. Evolutionary Intelligence is an impulse present at the centre of our Integral City compass, that springs [...]