Jan Inglis has just released a video that helps us to understand the impasse we face related to decision making and climate change. Jan’s Summary of the Video: Underlying the climate change crisis is a crisis in our collective ability to make decisions that support sustainable systemic responses. This 37 minute video highlights the connection [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Climate change’
A Crisis of Decision Making: What Underlies Our Inability to Respond to Climate Change
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Climate change, decision making, sustainability, whole systems thinking on March 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
RRU Faculty & Students Sustain Community Development Using Integrative, Integral & Evolutionary Models
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, F. Training, Global/Worldcentric, Uncategorized, tagged Climate change, Dr. Ann Dale, Dr. Graeme Taylor, Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, evolution, integral, Royal Roads University, sustainability on February 28, 2011 | Comments Off
At Royal Roads University, the inaugural Sustainable Community Development (SCD) cohort has just completed their first Potentials for Adaptive Change Residency on RRU Campus. In the first week of February, after three weeks online, a cohort, with professions as varied as municipal forester, downtown revitalization director, tourism instructor and sustainability officer, whose members come from [...]
Gaia’s Reflective Organ Needs 5 Degrees Hotter INSIDE
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged 4 Degrees Hotter, Climate change, ecofootprint, evolution, fear, GHG, Lovelock, sustainability on February 16, 2011 | Comments Off
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 [...]
Resourceless or Resourceful: Megacities, Dinosaurs & Supercyles
Posted in Building - Structures, city, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, tagged China, Climate change, economy, human hive, meshwork, sustainability, World Economic Forum on January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In yesterday’s National Post two stories intrigued me that ultimately relate to resources available to the Human Hive. They appeared without linkage to each other but they raised bridging questions for me. The first article was about a Super Human Hive – a megacity that China has plans for turning the Pearl River Delta into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Climate Change Blog Worth Checking Out
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, Ecosphere, Level 7 Yellow, Level 8 Turquoise, tagged Climate change on December 27, 2009 | Comments Off
I am always on the look out for blogs and writers who can write dispassionately about the issues that affect cities. I just discovered this one by Dr. Joe Romm today. It has a great archive and the following quote from the blog can be fully read at www.climateprogress.org Climate Change Progress. Thanks to the [...]
First News of Copenhagen Deal – Some BBC Quotes
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Panarchy, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Climate change, Copenhagen, hope, mayors on December 18, 2009 | Comments Off
This first news from a deal at Copenhagen tells us that at least there is some political will amongst the key power brokers and deal breakers. The devil will be in the details — but it offers us a gleam of hope. Human Hives aka Mayors of key cities around the world will no doubt need [...]
Who is at Climate Talks and What Do They Seek?
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, climate, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Inner, Level 7 Yellow, Level 8 Turquoise, Master Intelligence, Navigating - IVSM, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Climate change, integral city intelligences, survival, sustainability on December 17, 2009 | Comments Off
This article published early in December 2009, reveals the biases of the voting blocks at Copenhagen, based on their emissions, GDP and % of world population. The spectrum of intelligences hidden inside these numbers does not reveal who the complex thinkers are in each block — those people who can think at a geo-centric level and [...]
Bill McKibbens Points at 4 Key Numbers for Climate Scoreboard
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Level 7 Yellow, Level 8 Turquoise, Navigating - IVSM, tagged Climate change, sustainability on December 16, 2009 | Comments Off
As we are in the stage of chaos in our international community — what voices of intelligence point to evidence-based information that we can continue to learn from? Bill McKibben uses 4 numbers: 350 degrees target, 100 countries, 4% and 770 degrees actual!! Read below for background behind these feedback loops. http://climateinteractive.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/bill-mckibbens-guardian-uk-article-features-climate-interactive/#more-2214 Bill McKibben’s Guardian [...]
