Hazel Henderson reports that Neuromarketing is invading the corporate ethic. She connects the insidious practise of utilizing fMRI scans (and other neuro penetration technology) to fine tune marketing messages for the use of politicians and corporate interests . Along with the US Supreme Court decision to lift the restraints on corporate financing, this practise has the [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Neuromarketing = Dumbing Down
Posted in Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, tagged neuromarketing on January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Integral Politics Bad News Flash
Posted in Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Navigating - IVSM, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged integral, politics on January 31, 2010 | Comments Off
When on the same day I receive news from Integral Heart/Life leader Terry Patten and Economist Hazel Henderson about a recent US Supreme Court decision, I pay attention. The impact the Supreme Court’s decision on funding political adverstising will not just be felt in the USA, but will impact decision making, corporate conduct and ethical guidelines [...]
Honeybees are modern day canaries in coal mines
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Lifecycle, tagged evolution, honey bees, human hive on January 18, 2010 | Comments Off
This artcle in Vancouver gives updated information about the role of honey bees in human systems — particularly the food system. It points out the disrespect we (the most evolved species of vertebrates) pay the species that is the most evolved species of invertabrates. You can learn more about the lessons bees have for humans in [...]
Afterthoughts on Copenhagen Forum
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged change, Climate change, evolution, resilience, votes, wellbeing on January 17, 2010 | Comments Off
I have begun to reframe the results of Copenhagen Climate Forum in light of my experience over the years with changing the political will/mind. Two decades ago, in the small city where I live, I served as President of the Chamber of Commerce. Actually the Chamber served two municipalities which had grown together so closely [...]
Preventing Homelessness a Successful Strategy
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Level 4 Blue, Meshworking, tagged homelessness, prevention on January 17, 2010 | Comments Off
In these days of visible homelessness in Haiti under circumstances of extreme duress, it is good to hear of some breakthroughs in preventing homelessness in the US. Read about how short term assistance for rent supports and re-housing initiatives is helping 100′s of thousands in the US. http://www.pantagraph.com/business/article_49c32b6a-022f-11df-a4b9-001cc4c03286.html WASHINGTON, D.C. — In rural communities and [...]
Vancouverism as a Spirit of Thinking About Future
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged eco footprint, Rees on January 15, 2010 | Comments Off
Vancouver is contemplated by Kim Murphy from the shadows of Los Angeles, for both its sustainable pluses and its sustainable cautions. As Vancouver is in the final month to the Winter Olympics, it will be interesting to see how its commitment to sustainability is played out for the world to see and consider whether it [...]
Eco-Regions and Water/Food Equation
Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, Ecosphere, Inquiry, Level 4 Blue, Level 5 Orange, Level 6 Green, Level 7 Yellow, Navigating - IVSM, tagged food, sustainability, water, whole systems thinking on January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
If you want to find out how complex the relationship between ecology, water resources and human food supplies is becoming, check out this item on Endangerd Species Act Ruling and food production in California. In order to even grasp the players in this scenario one has to gain some altitude and look at it systemically. It [...]
Integral Architecture for Human Hive
Posted in Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Integral Maps, Level 7 Yellow, tagged architecture, design, education, integral on January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
In the Human Hive, we need truth, beauty and goodness to sustain our capacities and encourage creative impulses. It is not always easy to find them in cities designed from pre-modern, modern and post-modern design principles. Someone who is committed to changing that is Mark Dekay, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, University of [...]
Decade Welcome, Decade Countdown
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, G. Levels: Developmental/Evolutionary, Global/Worldcentric, tagged countdown, decade, evolution on January 3, 2010 | Comments Off
2010 Welcome to the Decade of the Human Hive, in the Century of the City; may evolutionary intelligence emerge for people, place, planet 6:12 PM Jan 1st from web 2000-2009 Decade of Glocal City Evolution – integral depths, climatic contexts, renewable energy strategies – order emerging from chaos 12:08 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from web [...]
Sermon for Climate Change & Call to Repent
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inquiry, Level 4 Blue, Level 5 Orange, Level 6 Green, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged acceptance, church, Climate change, sermons, worldviews on January 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Every New Year needs an inspiring sermon to put life into perspective. At this start to the new decade and with a need for something more than bland resolutions, to repair that which has not worked from the last decade, I like the message in recent sermon by Bruce Sanguin, Founder of the Evolutionary Christian Centre, at [...]
