Forbes has just published an interesting list of the 10 Best Places to Live. Below is how they describe their criteria and selection process. It is interesting to contemplate whether “Best Places” can measure up to “most sustainable places”. It strikes me that these are beautiful and inspiring places, and I wonder if they are economically [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Are Forbes 10 Best Places the Most Eco-Sustainable?
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, climate, Ecosphere, tagged best places, eco-region, sustainability on May 21, 2009 | Comments Off
The Master Rule as Three Faces of God
Posted in Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged survival, three faces of God on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Listening to Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen on their webcasted dialogue last week prompted ponderings on the three faces of God in the city. The Third Face of God — represented as the face of the third person — the God we see in the other as we walk the streets of the city. This is [...]
Investing in Kids – Another School – New Orleans
Posted in Inner, Level 4 Blue, Level 7 Yellow, Master Intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged children, education, meshwork, New Orleans, schools on May 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Thanks to Amy Hartman and Don Beck for passing along a very clear message from a New Orleans Catholic School who has a whole system meshwork for educating kids. Check it out here at Principal Moran’s of Archbisop Rummel HighSchool. The fervour of the Principal’s message affirms the values of healthy Blue, while designing the school’s [...]
Investing in Kids
Posted in Inner, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged children, education, health, New Orleans, schools on May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I just finished a final edit on the last Imagine Abbotsford Dialogue — to be reported in The Abbotsford News May 14, 2009. This dialogue was on the Health and Community of Abbotsford. One Policy Maker from the Fraser Valley Health Authority remarked that the community gains greater health benefits by investing in kids than [...]
Stand By Me = Musical Meshworking?
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Level 2 Purple, Level 8 Turquoise, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged meshwork, music on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I just followed a link to a beautiful musical creation. This is a very purple song to the core — or maybe this way, produced by a mobile recording studio that spanned the globe — maybe it’s Turquoise??? The producer has recorded very talented buskers and a host of back-up musicians from around the world, [...]
Integral Bio-Security Resources for Swine, Avian Flu
Posted in Classroom course, Ego, Ethno, Global/Worldcentric, Inquiry, Level 7 Yellow, tagged avian flu, Resources for Mayors, swine flu, zoonotic diseases on May 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Mayors need a framework appropriately complex to respond to the emergence of zoonotic diseases (ie. diseases that cross over from animal populations into human populations) (Sapient Circle, 2004). These threats make demands on emergency response systems that are not merely complicated, but are complex. This means that the interconnections of animal and human health systems, through diseases such as SARS, West Nile Disease, BSE, E-Coli and Avian Influenza, create exponential levels of complexity. It appears that zoonotic bio-emergencies are more dynamic and subject to sudden jumps in severity, than non-bio-emergencies, because the underlying viral/biological elements are capable of learning or adapting to their human environments/life conditions. Thus they require complex non-linear approaches to develop successful response strategies.
Jane Jacobs & Robert Moses: Meshworkers of New York
Posted in Meshworking, tagged integral city intelligences, Jacobs, meshwork, Moses, myelin, myelniation, New York, resilience, self-organizing system on May 3, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve been watching the series on New York produced by Ric Burns (released through PBS but available as a DVD). It is an impressive revelation of the city’s 400 years of history. Last week I watched the episode exploring the massive infrastructure creations of Robert Moses including his hundred of miles of turnpikes that decimated [...]
