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What would Integral City contribute to TED’s City 2.0 prize? City 2.0 is differentiated from City 1.0 primarily because it moves from being inward oriented to being outward oriented. City 1.0 cares for its residents (on good days) while Integral City 2.0 cares for the world by caring for its citizens and stewarding its place and space [...]

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Evolutionary Enlightenment, by Andrew Cohen is a refreshingly enlivening read that aligns well with the Evolutionary Intelligences of Integral City. Cohen, starts with the traditional path of enlightenment as the starting place for practitioners to achieve a deep knowing of the evolutionary experience of the “Big Bang”. His description of this as not only a scientific proposition, [...]

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The Experience Integral Conference incorporated powerful practitioners and technologies into its design for the Embodying Integral Sustainability Conference. Five Wisdoms was a new approach for Integral City to working with spiritual practice, energy and collaboration. Five Wisdoms lead us to a place where we could apply it to the Roles in the Sustainability Leadership Meshwork that we developed (along with Souls, Goals [...]

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I had another brush with fear yesterday when I read the Climate Primer released by the Melbourne Climate Action Centre called 4 Degrees Hotter.  Ironically I had just finished teaching at Royal Roads University, the inaugural Sustainable Community Development  Graduate Certificate, with a Challenge focused on a Climate Action Plan for a BC City. I had completed the literature [...]

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In tonight’s Winter Olympics Closing Ceremonies, we saw, heard, smelled, tasted, felt the dream of the north shift. From our traditional Canadian stance of modesty and self-deprecation, we shifted into claiming the gold of self-identity – an identity that transcends and includes the nations of the world. The presence of 2600 athletes from around the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Bruce Sanguin, pastor of Canadian Memorial Church & Centre for Peace in Vancouver, BC. author of “Darwin,Divinity and the Dance of the Cosmos” is inviting leaders in the city church to don new lenses. In The Emerging Church: A Model for Change & a Map of Renewal Sanguin has created a practical guide for congregations [...]

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