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Thanksgivings and Question-Harvests in the Human Hive

Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »


Ten days after the final Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (IC2OC) … and we have celebrated our first Thanksgiving (whose timing we borrow from Canada :-) )

We are thankful for the people who made the IC2OC possible: all the volunteers, the speakers, the affiliates and the participants – in a constantly
intermeshing order.

We have an inventory of harvest outcomes that is almost overwhelming in its plenitude: products like 50 mp3 recordings; 36 pdf transcripts of
interviews (in various stages of completion); daily harvest summaries; website postings from participants; conference member profiles; weekly harvest paintings; music; video; social media and more to come.

We are grateful for all the relationships we discovered – not only with individuals, but with affiliates, partners and suppliers to name a few.

We are awed by the complex learning and research processes we created to produce the eLaboratory and Live Event phase of IC2OC.

And now we are harvesting a process that took 36 months to produce 36 Live Event sessions. We are noticing natural patterns emerging as we
immerse ourselves in a sea of amazing data about the Human Hive.

These I pose now simply as research questions, that we will be exploring as we gather, store, appreciate and re-purpose the Harvest in service to our Planet and her Cities.

  • What have we learned about designing a new operating system for the city on a Planet of Cities?
  • How is the new paradigm of the city integrally based on the Principles of Life?
  • How do those principles of sustainability and resilience emerge from Energy, Matter and Information?
  • What are the protocols of behaviour, thought, relationship and systems that we need in our cities on a Planet of Cities?
  • What is the new story of the city on a Planet of Cities?
  • What are the life-giving practices for individuals and communities in our cities?
  • How do we source and re-source Life in our cities for our planet?
  • What is the relationship of City Spirit to the new operating for this city on a Planet of Cities?
  • What have we come to understand about how the Master Code impacted our inquiry, our processes, our conference?

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Effective city leadership requires an un

Posted in city on September 22, 2012 |


Effective city leadership requires an understanding of the dynamics of individual & group mind, heart, spirit & body @icityelab

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The influence each person has on others

Posted in city on September 11, 2012 |


The influence each person has on others depends very much on their center of gravity of developmental levels & lines http://ow.ly/dp2eU

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Individual emotions thoughts talents & s

Posted in city on September 2, 2012 |


Individual emotions thoughts talents & spirituality impact behaviors cultures&social systems in the city? http://ow.ly/dp1Eu

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Evolutionary Intel Ensures Survival of Human Species

Posted in city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, tagged , , , on August 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Exploring the intelligence of the city is a necessary research project to ensure the survival of the human species on this earth.  

Bucky Fuller   “The 21st century is when we find out if the human race is a failed experiment.”  “We do not have a political problem, we have a design problem. We must design a world where everyone can succeed, or everyone will fail.”

The never ending quest of the human evolutionary impulse, will likely lead us to continue to reach off earth to access the infinite supply of resources elsewhere in our solar system and the univese.  Eventually evolutionary intelligence will lead us to create the conditions where human life can be supported in space cities or colonies.

If our experiment on earth succeeds, we will then be able to apply the intelligences we develop on earth to obtain the resources to build space colonies from space. (For we do not have sufficient energy or resources to move the necessary resources from earth to a space colony.)

Thus we have many years of Integral City capacity building ahead of us — from food production and shelter construction, to inner space people development systems to mining meteorites — to create before a self-sustaining planet earth can serve (and a space colony can emerge).

This will require us to grow the capacities of collaboration, community, constellation and colonization beyond any context the human system has ever evolved.

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Navigating Intel Works With Meshworking Intel

Posted in city, tagged , , , , , on August 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »


From an Integral Vital Signs Monitor design, the Integral Scorecard can become the reporting vehicle for informing all the stakeholders of the city.

It tells us whether we are achieving the purpose and objectives of the city in a sustainable way. It reveals to us if we are amassing the energy, matter and information that we need to sustain ourselves. It is a way of mapping capacity and potential and has the power to reveal imbalances that indicate unsustainable practices.

Navigating intelligence using IVSM works hand in hand with Meshworking intelligence to design new governance systems that research, plan  and manage the city.

Three simple rules for applying Integral City Navigating Intelligences

  1. Select the future destination of the city based on its vision.
  2. Design and implement integral dashboards, using integral indicators of wellbeing for the city.
  3. Notice outcomes and make course corrections to enable progress naturally.

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Incredible opportunity for students: Gai

Posted in city on August 17, 2012 |


Incredible opportunity for students: Gain training, network, tools, mentorship & funding to lead sustainability projects in Vancouver. Apply by August 20 @ http://bit.ly/NbED68

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Meshworking, essentially re-values & rec

Posted in city on August 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Meshworking, essentially re-values & recalibrates hierarchies so they can support & leverage self-organizing processes. http://ow.ly/cCfG4

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Cities Are Vital for Organizational Sustainability

Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 29, 2012 |


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 recent report on the SustainAbility that identifies the States of Cities the discussion explored cities through the lenses of:

  • Personal Values
  • Decisive
  • Connected
  • Collaborative/Competitive
  • Visceral
  • Adaptive
  • Experimental

What is really encouraging about this identification of city qualities is that they appear to align with the four capacities of an Integral City:

UL: Psychological Capacity

  • Personal Values
  • Decisive

LL: Relationship Capacity

  • Collaborative

UR: Embodied Capacity

  • Visceral
  • Adaptive

LR: Systems Capacity

  • Competitive
  • Experimental

Furthermore this approach to SustainAbility appears to bring to the table the voices of stakeholders from the four quadrants of both the city and organizations. This is promising news for the future of Integral City Sustainability Planning. Perhaps the States of Cities will become the leading indicators of the wellbeing of City States?

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Midway Albatross Warns Humans Plastic Trash Deadly

Posted in city, Ecosphere, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »


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 still assimilating BSC’s ultra-intensive agenda connecting sustainability perspectives, people and planet.

Jan is part of a crew making a film on the plight of the albatross that nests on Midway Island in the middle of the Pacific, 2000 miles from other land. The birds are horrifying ambassadors to the human species of the bio-cide our manufacture of plastics and how our careless disposal of everything from bottle caps, to cigarette lighters, to plastic straws imperils other species. The Midway Film shows the life-decimating graveyard of these plastics is not the apocryphal plastic island swirling in the gyre of the Pacific but the guts of the baby sea birds who ingest the plastic as food – inedible food that fills their guts and guts their life.

Jan shared the advice of the Hawaiin elder who warned him not to feel sorry for the albatross – but instead to take their story as a gift to us – a message to change our ways. Jan told us that the plastic killing the sea birds is sourced from the casual disposal of plastic along the river banks of the world. He demonstrated this uncomfortable truth by collecting a box of plastic junk from the city of Kelowna, along the shores of Lake Okanagan – (where our conference hotel was located - 1000 km from the ocean). Like the canaries in the coal mine who save miners from poison gas, or the bees dying of colony collapse disorder, the albatross has a message for the human species.

Jan is a modern day Goya (who with his painting of the Disasters of War documented the brutality of war and the atrocities that mankind inflicts upon itself).  Jan is holding up the horrifying beauty of the dying colony of albatrosses (whose plastic-filled skeletons are unnervingly beautiful sand paintings with their feathered bright and pastel shades of plastic entrails). The man-made guts are literally gut-wrenching – an atrocity we can take as an object lesson of the (unintended?) consequences of our irresponsible polluting behaviour. The film enjoins us to steward nature and respect other species, by first taking responsibility for our actions. Clean up our mess wherever we are so we don’t spoil nature for others – who might be half a world away. You can support Jan and colleagues work by contacting him at Copper Sky Studios.

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