I spent last week at Royal Roads University delivering the first Residency of the Sustainability Graduate Certificate. Ten students from across Canada provided a rigorous proving ground for the Integral City approach to sustainability. Using the Integral City Compass to prove the design with three leverage points, here is what we did. Integral City Compass [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Resources for Mayors’
Integral City Intelligences for Sustainable City Class
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, climate, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Colwood, education, integral, integral city intelligences, Resources for Mayors, Royal Roads University, sustainability on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Fountain of Evolutionary Insights for Mayors
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, G. Levels: Developmental/Evolutionary, Level 7 Yellow, Level 8 Turquoise, Uncategorized, tagged integral city intelligences, meshwork, Resources for Mayors on August 25, 2009 | Comments Off
I feel like I am standing in the centre of an Integral City Square with a Fountain of Integral Insights spraying life-giving rainbows that can refresh a mayor’s way of thinking in these hot fires of summer. Not surprisingly, this fountain I see, has four quadrants — all issuing flows of emerging wisdom that seem to be tapping a deep [...]
Integral Bio-Security Resources for Swine, Avian Flu
Posted in Classroom course, Ego, Ethno, Global/Worldcentric, Inquiry, Level 7 Yellow, tagged avian flu, Resources for Mayors, swine flu, zoonotic diseases on May 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Mayors need a framework appropriately complex to respond to the emergence of zoonotic diseases (ie. diseases that cross over from animal populations into human populations) (Sapient Circle, 2004). These threats make demands on emergency response systems that are not merely complicated, but are complex. This means that the interconnections of animal and human health systems, through diseases such as SARS, West Nile Disease, BSE, E-Coli and Avian Influenza, create exponential levels of complexity. It appears that zoonotic bio-emergencies are more dynamic and subject to sudden jumps in severity, than non-bio-emergencies, because the underlying viral/biological elements are capable of learning or adapting to their human environments/life conditions. Thus they require complex non-linear approaches to develop successful response strategies.
