Today ’s cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow’s cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today’s activists demonstrate their beliefs through confrontive action. They stand up against injustices, rules, authorities and infrastructure by blocking access for as many people as possible. They are willing to threaten power, throw projectiles and thrust their bodies [...]
Posts Tagged ‘evolution’
Integral City 2.0 Requires a Momentous Leap from Activism to AQALism
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged activists, AQALists, belief systems, change, City 2.0, evolution, Gaia, human freedom, inner reflection, integral, ongoing development, spiritual depths, wellbeing on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How Do We Design Healthcare Systems for Integral City 2.0?
Posted in city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, tagged change, City 2.0, evolution, health, healthcare, healthcare design, human hive, major cities of the world, major healthcare systems, Principles, whole systems thinking on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Designing healthcare systems that serve the wellbeing of Integral City 2.0 begins with remembering “health” comes from the same root as the word “whole”. Healthcare in the human hive is based on the principles of Life and Evolution . Wholistic healthcare systems are rooted in natural science and embody values and cultural intentions. Principles that contribute to appropriate [...]
Evolutionary Enlightenment: 5 Tenets for the Human Hive
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged energies, evolution, evolutionary intelligences, evolutonary enlightenment, Five Wisdoms, integral city intelligences on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
Almere Principles Guide City Growth
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ego, Ethno, tagged Almere, Almere Principles, city, evolution, integral city intelligences on April 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Almere NL, a city of 190,000 is getting ready for a “scale jump” to double in size by 2030. Seeking guidelines to renew and transform itself, in 2008, it invited Cradle to Cradle authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart to craft principles by which the city could grow sustainably in balance with its unique polder environment and [...]
Spiritual Practices for Dealing with the News
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Emergence, Global/Worldcentric, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, tagged evolution, news, spiritual practise, Terry Patten, wellbeing, whole systems thinking on March 23, 2011 | Comments Off
As a follow up to my blog on the Systems and Resilience Cycles for the Restoration of Sendai, Integral City Spiritual Advisor, Terry Patten blogs a much needed set of practices for dealing with the News – good, bad and otherwise. Terry says: “The news so far during 2011 has been particularly electrifying: Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, [...]
Open Letter to 3 Women Imagineers of the Integral Age on 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, tagged evolution, human hive, integral city intelligences, International Women's Day, meshwork, sage, whole systems thinking, women on March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is An Open Letter to Three Women Imagineers of the Integral Age On The Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Dear Drs. Hazel Henderson, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Houston I claimed I was never a feminist in the 60’s or 70’s. That’s because I didn’t see myself as an activist [...]
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 [...]
Social Media Petition for Bees is Really for Humans Too
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Level 1 Beige, Lifecycle, tagged bees, evolution, human hive, sustainability, whole systems thinking on January 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Several Integral Citi-zens have alerted me to the social media activist campaign by AVAAZ currently underway. They are alerting activists that the honey bee is in peril from the effects of a toxic insecticide. This may be the cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD) (along with other contributing factors.) I have been tracking CCD for several years and have [...]
