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Sense in the City Summer 2012 – Co-Create the Future of the Human Hive

Posted in Dialogue, F. Training, H. Research, Level 5 Orange, Level 6 Green, Level 7 Yellow, Telecourse, tagged , , , , , on July 5, 2012 |


July Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City  

Today’s Integral City Sparkies for City Co-Creators:

Architect Christopher Alexander is experimenting with the “Phenomenon of Life,” co-designing living worlds where building centers, hulls and space are co-created with the stakeholders and future users of the buildings. He and his team are doing this with everyone from poor Mexican workers, to Japanese university students, to groups of house owners in rural and highly urbanized community settings.

Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.156

How do we design the city so that I, WE, IT and ITS can co-exist in a vibrant way?

 

We invite you to help us co-create the Future of the City conference by taking 10 minutes to complete this survey: https://www.jitsulab.com/197/0065/The Future of the City Survey. Thanks for returning it by July 15.

Below some of the questions that provoke, engage, question and cross connect co-creators of the Future of the Human Hive!!! We are building a huge excitement and momentum as we ask them with everyone we encounter – in person, online, internationally, through the Blog, in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.   Let us know what are your burning questions for how to co-exist in the city on our planet of cities?

 

What role are cities playing, as 2012 shifts through the longest/shortest days of its year (depending on your location on the planet)?

  • How are cities surviving the turbulence of life everywhere? How do  cities adapt to polarities of shadow and light in constant play?
  • In the shadows, how do cities survive the misery of the Syrian war, the seeming futility of the EU economic tactics, the searing heat in eastern North America or the disappointment of Rio+20?
  • In the light, what are the implications for cities of the discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle (and the promise of deep understanding of dark energy and dark matter)? What does it mean for cities that human lifecycles are extending beyond 100 years?  What are the lessons for cities about the densifying connections emerging from social media that defy all traditional political assumptions in places like Rangoon, Cairo and Montreal?

How does 2012 call forth new paradigms in just about every sphere of knowledge we care to examine?

  • Where is the kiva for the city where new conversations about city wellbeing can engage City-Zens with scientists, artists, designers, practitioners and faith leaders?
  • How can we discover a new paradigm for the city together? How might we co-create new solutions to: the city’s relationship with its eco-region, indigenous peoples and immigrants from the four corners of the globe; the city’s access to and use of energy, water and food; and the maturing of the city’s collective intelligence?

With more than 50% of people living in cities, how are they the seed pods for the human species where intentions, actions, relationships and productive output collide and co-create our collective habitats?

  • What shifts in our thinking are needed to not only track the quantities of all these interactions, but also to notice the quality and complexity of these exchanges?
  • We wonder, if we take the pulse of more than 50% of humanity in city activity, can we track each city’s essential wellbeing? How does each city’s capacity to achieve wellbeing simultaneously become its measure of resilience?
  • How do cities develop new governance to interact sustainably on a planet of cities?

We invite you to become part of the Brain Trust to design an eLaboratory where we can research new capacities for an Integral City. Start by giving us your ideas and suggestions here: https://www.jitsulab.com/197/0065/The Future of the City Survey

 (BTW, If you are interested in volunteering on the team forming to deliver the conference (rewards provided!!) – find out more here: https://www.jitsulab.com/271/0005/Integral%20City%20eLab%20Volunteer%20Application

 

  1. New Integral City Connections & Resources:

 

  • Integral City joined the Energetic City 2050 in Antwerp in April.  Check out how Alliander (with Partners and Freedom Lab facilitation) have challenged three teams to discover how individuals can generate their own energy in 2050. http://www.energeticcity2050.nl/#slide=expeditie (in Dutch)

 

 

  • Integral City has published - Integral Spirituality in the Human Hive –  the “thirteenth” chapter of the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligence for the Human Hive. The new chapter has been published by the German Engineering Journal, Trialog. A pdf is available (with permission) from our Wiki link:   http://www.integralcity.com/wiki.html .  Reference: Hamilton, M. (2012). Integral Spirituality in the Human Hive: A Primer. Trialog, 2010(4), 10-17.

 

2. 2012 Learning Events:

  1. Dr. Don Beck delivers THE MOMENTOUS LEAP in Dallas-Forth Worth Texas September 6-9, 2012. Join him for Spiral Dynamics in Action:Deciphering the Master Code in the Age of Complexity, Collaboration and Emergence. A Functional, Integral Pathway to a Sustainable Future For details and registration click here: 13th Annual SDi Confab
  2. Join us at the October – December, 2012 for EMBODY INTEGRAL SUSTAINABILITY Conference sponsored by Experience Integral in the Netherlands. We are honoured to be part of an extraordinary international faculty leading change-makers and practitioners in the field of SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP. The three month long intensive program is customized to meet personal and organization needs, blending group learning and individualized support. Find out details here: http://www.experienceintegral.org/cl4s

 

3. Marilyn Blogs about Integral City Intelligences through the framework of What, So What, Now What . As a prologue to the September 2012 eLaboratory, check out all our eLaboratory Blogs here http://www.integralcitycollective.com . These are the topics we’ve covered:

Ecosphere Intel Vital to Planet of Cities

  • Designing Ecosphere Economies for Planet of Cities
  • Earth Day: Let’s Celebrate Ecosphere Intelligence Arising in Planet’s Fortune100!!

Hello Human Hive: Welcome Emergent World

  • Emergent Designers Seek Energetic City 2050 for Arnhem
  • Emergent Intelligence Frames Whole System Design

Living Intelligence Renews City Value Proposition

  • Principles for Living Intelligently in a Healthy City
  • Living Intelligence – Are You the Center of Aliveness in Your City?

Integral Intelligence Reveals Whole City Vitality

  • Connect City-Eco-Regional Holarchy: Improve Health
  • Integral Intelligence – Psycho-Activates Gaia’s Reflective Organ

Inner Intelligence – The Reflective “I” Power of the Human Hive

  • Cherry Blossom Happiness Factor of City-Centric Inner Intelligence
  • Inner Intelligence is Seedbed of City’s Intuition, Insight, Innovation

…meshful blessings for this season of Co-Creating Futures for the Human Hive … 

 Marilyn

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www.integralcity.com ; Vimeo Interviews on the Integral City   “What is an Integral City?”Twitter: integralcity ; Integral City Blog  - read new articles, archives and Sense in the City archives

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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 , , , on January 5, 2010 |


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 is interesting that nowhere in the article is there an exploration of the assumptions about the rights of humans to populate requiring the responsibility of understanding the carrying capacity of the eco-region for all life. This article seems locked into post-modern (green) worldviews of entitlement.

http://brianallmerradionetwork.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/01-05-10-endangered-species-act-ruling-threatens-food-production-in-california/

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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 , , , , on January 3, 2010 |


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 Canadian Memorial United Church in Vancouver Canada and author of “Emerging Church”. This message seems especially relevant because Bruce shares how keeping a vigil during the Copenhagen talks gave him new insights on his own worldviews, on those of his fellow/sister citizens and how Canada has earned its ”colossal fossil” climate reputation in the world (a strong resonance with Integral City’s 3 part master rule.)

Enjoy the excerpt below and find the full sermon at http://www.canadianmemorial.org/sermons_2/2009_12_13.html . Suggestion: Even if you find, as you read, that your views differ from Bruce’s, stay with the message to the end.

“Feeling The Heat: Climate Change And The Call To Repent”

A Sermon Preached by Bruce Sanguin
December 13, 2009Luke 3: 7-18

 

By now, I suspect many of you have read George Monbiot’s blog relating to Canada and climate change. “Canada’s scheming at the climate talks is doing for its national image what whaling has done for Japan.” The author of the bestseller, Heat, goes on: “I will not pretend this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is a major one. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How could that be?”

Shockingly, Canada finds itself ranked 59th out of 60 nations on the climate change performance index, which assesses the efforts of the 60 richest nations. Saudi Arabia came 60th.  Here’s our dismal and shameful record:

  • We are the only signatory to the Kyoto Protocol to have abandoned its targets to cut greenhouse emissions.
  • Between 1990 and 2012 we committed to cutting emissions by 6%. Instead they have risen by 26%.
  • In 2007, we single-handedly blocked a Commonwealth resolution to support binding targets for industrialized nations.
  • After the climate talks in Poland in 2008, we won the Fossil of the Year award, presented by environmental groups to the country which had done the most to disrupt the talks.

John the Baptist comes along, as he does every Advent, issuing a call to repentance. This is not merely about pointing the finger of divine judgment at us so that we might say we’re sorry.  The call of every social prophet, including John, is to provide the opportunity for us to fundamentally reorient our lives in light of an immanent crisis. In John’s day, that crisis was the advent or the coming of the Messiah. John was baptizing people as a way of preparing for the arrival of God’s messiah. Within the apocalyptic worldview of John, this arrival would usher in a crisis – an end of one era and the beginning of a new creation.

Today, we’re not literally awaiting the arrival of a Messiah. But the underlying apocalyptic pattern is very much upon us. An old worldview is being unveiled as inadequate for the complexities of an emerging world. An unregulated market economy dependent upon an ever-increasing pattern of consumption of its citizens is over. The funeral may not be for another 10 or 20 or 30 years, but it’s the beginning of the end. We’d need the equivalent of four planets to continue down this road. We’re drawing down the natural capital of the earth at an unprecedented frenzy of consumption. This system has been fueled, literally, by oil and its byproducts. These fossil fuel emissions are creating a greenhouse effect, and trapping heat, causing the planet to heat up. You are all aware of the symptoms by now; the unexpectedly rapid rate of the melting of the polar ice-caps, wild-climate fluctuations, causing drought in some areas, and increased cooling in others, the acidification of the oceans and the erosion of our coral reefs, and rising sea levels which is projected to cause a refugee crisis the likes of which we’ve never seen. To repeat, the apocalyptic scenario, stripped of its premodern associations with God returning to destroy the earth and save the true believers, is a valid metaphor for today.

Or is it? What about “Climate Gate”? * I’ve spent a few noon hours this past week with members of Canadian Memorial and other supporters passing out fact sheets about climate change, and fasting as a way of signaling to our leaders that this issue is urgent, and that we want them to take bold measures at the Copenhagen summit that is going on right now. We took this action in solidarity with the Rev. Dr. Bill Phipps, former moderator of the United Church of Canada who has been fasting and holding vigil in Calgary. This was actually my first foray into street corner activism, and what surprised me was the number of angry people I encountered. Quite a few would refuse the materials and bark back something like: “I don’t believe in climate change. The problem is solar flares.  It’s volcanoes. It’s mother earth’s natural cycles. It has nothing to do with us. Can’t you read? How do you spell climate gate?”

… read the complete message at http://www.canadianmemorial.org/sermons_2/2009_12_13.html

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Ecocities Emerging

Posted in Building - Structures, Ecosphere, Level 6 Green, Level 7 Yellow, tagged on November 16, 2009 |


From the Eco-Cities Emerging Newsletter November 14, 2009:

Greetings,

Welcome to the mid November 2009 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series.

I’d like to share something inspiring that just happened. I had dinner with a man who saved the world! No exaggeration. Proves it can be done and if one of our Eighth International Ecocity Conference goals is to help open up the conversation about the links between cities and climate solutions, reversing the global heating problem may well have very positive precedent.

The occasion was a function of the ClimateWorks Foundation in San Francisco. Mario Molina, Nobel Laureate, was sitting two people to my left at a circular table of seven. He and his research partners Paul Crutzen and Sherwood Rowland discovered the links between CFCs in the atmosphere and the effects they would have on the ozone layer, and then, on greatly increased ultraviolet radiation and severe damage to all manner of living organisms including us humans. They engaged best scientific methods and, with great effort and determination, brought the information to the public and policy makers. The result: the Montreal Protocol and banning of CFC leading in turn to the beginning of the end of that enormous threat to life on the planet.

Our thesis at the Eighth International Ecocity Conference is that we humans have to know much better what to build if we are to solve our growing environmental and resources problems. As Paul Downton said at a climate change conference in Australia in 1988, “Cities can save the world!” Cities are key. You can help us unlock the solution.

See you there!

Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders

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Green Building Standard in Cascadia

Posted in Building - Structures, Ecosphere, Level 6 Green, Uncategorized, tagged on November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »


New Standard Addresses Social Justice, Urban Agriculture and Community Scale Impacts
Download the challenge 2.0: www.ilbi.org (International Living Building Institute)
Story: http://www.cityfarmer.info/?p=2643(Phoenix, AZ) Nov. 10, 2009 ­ The newest iteration of the Living Building Challenge was released today at Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual conference.  The International Living Building Institute (ILBI), in conjunction with the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, launched version 2.0 with the ultimate goal to fundamentally change the built environment.

 

The concept of Living Buildings was first introduced three years ago and quickly gained recognition as the world’s most revolutionary approach to green building. 

Most green building certification programs have focused on individual buildings, but the new Living Building Challenge program is both more comprehensive and more expansive, including small in-home remodels, community or campus-wide initiatives and infrastructure projects ­ including bridges, roads and parks.

The expanded breadth of version 2.0 brings more people to the table. “This standard is a unifying tool, bringing together many disciplines and players for the 
first time under one green building standard ­ architects and developers with urban planners and landscape architects, environmentalists and social activists, as well as affordable housing advocates and preservationists ­ to form a visionary pathway to a restorative future,” says Jason F. McLennan, CEO of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council.

…Three projects have completed construction and have entered their verification phase: Tyson Living Learning Center in Eureka, MO; Omega Center for 
Sustainable Living in Rhinebeck, NY; and Eco-Sense, a private residence in Victoria, British Columbia.  The Living Building Challenge is primarily performance-based, requiring a minimum of twelve months of operation prior to certification.

Visit the ILBI website to download the new version of the Challenge. www.ilbi.orgAbout Cascadia
The Cascadia Region Green Building Council is a 501(c) (3) non-profit in the US, and is incorporated as a nonprofit in British Columbia.  Cascadia promotes 
the design, construction and operation of buildings in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live, work and learn. 

 

Cascadia is one of three original chapters of the US Green Building Council and, as a chapter of the Canada Green Building Council as well, is the only international chapter in North America. It is the originator of the Living Building Challenge, authored by Jason F. McLennan.
www.cascadiagbc.org.

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Media Contacts:
Kathleen Warren, Parsons Public Relations
Kathleen@parsonspr.com / 206.789.5668

Eden Brukman, Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Eden@cascadiagbc.org / 503.228.5533 (o) / 503.544.9778 (m)

Do you get Cascadia’s monthly announcements? Subscribe at http://www.cascadiagbc.org/Jessica Woolliams, MA | LEED-AP
British Columbia Co-Director

 

Forwarded from Smart Growth BC’s Livable Communities digest:  <livable-communities@lists.smartgrowth.bc.ca>

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