Integral City has blasted into outer space! Or at least sub-orbital flight. Teaming up with astronaut, Dr. Mindy Howard, we are contributing to the Next Generation Sub-orbital Research Conference (Feb 27-29 Palo Alto). Check out Mindy and team’s itinerary for blast off under Flight Training Peak Experience: Optimizing the Conditions of Inner Space for Outer Space. This is a [...]
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Integral City 2.0 Blasts Into Space
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Uncategorized, tagged evolutionary intelligence, human hive, inner space, integral city intelligences, launching pads, mindy howard, orbital research, outer space, space colonies on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Environment for Consuming or Happiness?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economics, environment, happiness, prosperity on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Consumerism is to our society what cancer is to our body, said Michael Dowd at the Integral Spiritual Experience. He brings attention to our evolutionary conundrum – why would we consume the reources of the planet in the same way that cancer cells consume the energy of the body? But how can we measure when we are [...]
City Development Patterns Miss the Patterns of Development
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community economic development, design, eco-region, economic development, integral city intelligences on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cities can do nothing to promote economic development, according to Mario Polese. But are the development patterns he enumerates missing the patterns of development of human culture and consciousness? Polese traces the modern to post-modern fads that have influenced community economic development (CED) at the city scale from the 1960′s to early 2000′s: strategic industries, industrial complexes, [...]
Occupy In 3 Acts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2011, occupy on December 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Occupy the conflagration of my vegetable stand. Occupy Twitter. Occupy our Arab Spring. Occupy IMF suite. Occupy hotel maid. Occupy Rikers Island. Occupy your repossession. Occupy your unemployment. Occupy their Wall Street. Occupy Greek trag-edy. Occupy Italian com-edy. Occupy German euro-medy. Occupy – the action play of 2011.
Occupy the Voice of Integral Citizen
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged change, citizen, economy, emergence, occupy, voice on December 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
How do I #Occupy the voice of the Integral Citizen? I begin with the power of who I am as the “I” of the city. As such I actually occupy the ”mind” of the city. My voice occupies a tone that resounds with my full aliveness. Its melody is my purpose. Its chorus is my family and friendships. Its bass notes are my [...]
EVA Lanxmeer Lives Like a Human Hive
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Uncategorized, tagged Almere, ecovillage, EVA Lanxmeer, human hive, integral city intelligences, Principles, self-organizing system, sustainability on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EVA Lanxmeer was a destination I was delighted to explore in August while I was in the Netherlands. I went there to visit Peter Merry, Founder of Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands and discover why he had moved to this eco-village. Peter and I walked around EVA Lanxmeer and I recorded his commentary – to [...]
Five Wisdoms = Evolutionary Intelligences for Sustainability of the Human Hive
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, Spiritual intelligence, Uncategorized, tagged energies, Five Wisdoms, human hive, integral city intelligences, Irini Rockwell, meshwork, Principles, self-organizing system, sustainability on September 8, 2011 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
New Science Explains City Behaviours
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Meshworking, Uncategorized, tagged change, design, fractal;, Geoffrey West, integral city intelligences, meshwork, sustainability on September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Go listen to Geoffrey West – there he is again! My friends and colleagues say go to hear his talk on Why Cities Keep Growing. When more than three people recommend a site to me, then I sit up and take notice. In this case I am happy to say that I followed the link [...]
Wellbeing indicator of a living system – “Could I die happy?”
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Uncategorized, tagged connecting with environment, happiness, indicators, living systems, reproducing, surviving, whole systems thinking on August 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Indicators of wellbeing have been a fascination of mine for many decades. Today I am contemplating the indicator of happiness – as in “Could I die happy today?” The EU calls and I have my powerpoint bags packed with all the trends that show the Big Picture of Global Sustainability to share with Experience Integral [...]
Grok,Talk, Walk & Rock and Bridge the Great Divides at World Future Society
Posted in Classroom course, F. Training, Uncategorized, tagged generations, integral city intelligences, spiral dynamics integral, world future society on June 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Join us for two integral-spiral designed sessions at the WFS, Vancouver, BC July 8 & 9 2011. Bridging the Great Divides: A Spiral Dynamics Workshop on Cultural Integration, Global Cohesion, and Our Multiple Futures. Dr. Don Beck, Elza Maalouf and Said Dawlablani present July 8. The end of the Cold War has not brought us [...]
