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Ingredients for Honey in the Human Hive

Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2013 | 1 Comment »


What is the equivalent for the Human Hive of producing 40 pounds of honey in the bee hive?

That is the question that I have been inquiring into through the lenses of bio-psycho-cultural-social-mimicry.

Honey Bee Ingredients

In the generative seed bed of my recent visit to San Francisco, glimpses of the ingredients for producing “Honey” in our Human Hive  Honey have emerged. It has to do with the conjunction of Passion, Priority, Purpose and Prosperity.

I have learned that it is the symbiotic relationship of the Bee Hive’s survival (or thrival) through Pollination of Plant Life that meets their need to survive and thrive. Bee Hives can “measure” their success through the production of 40 pounds of honey per year. This symbiotic relationship generates enough Energy (aka Prosperity) to not only fulfil their Purpose but to create renewable energy sources for next year.

Human Hive Honey

In the Human Hive – our thriving arises from feeling fully alive – this Passion is expressed as Joy. Our great Purpose arises from the fulfilment of Caring Service to the world’s Priorities or Needs. This is just as much a symbiotic relationship with Gaia, as the bees have with her plants. What is more, it generates the same kind of Energy (which we call Prosperity) that rewards us for acting from Joy and creates renewable Energy to continue to meet Gaia’s bio-psycho-cultural-social Needs on an ongoing cycle.

It seems to me these ingredients and the recipe for making Honey in the Human Hive are fractal – that is they occur at every level of  scale in the Human Hive (individual, family, organization, neighbourhood, city).

Human Hive Honey_Page_3

It is the fundamental energy equation of the Master Code:

  • To Care for Ourselves (through Passion/Joy)
  • To Care for Others (in living our Purpose in service to Priorities/Needs)
  • To Care for this Place (as a natural result of Prosperity)
  • To Care for this Planet (as we align the Prosperity engine around Gaia’s wellbeing Needs)

Is this too simple?? Maybe just a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious)? Maybe just another step along the path for Human Hives to achieve the double sustainability system that the honey bee hives have created in their service to Gaia?

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Integral City Systems of Survival: Why Not Just Privatize the Government?

Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Why Not Just Privatize the Government?

Why not privatize city government? Jane Jacobs described two moral syndromes necessary for a human social system to survive – one called Guardian and the other called Commercial. She argued that mixing their ethics created “monstrous hybrids” that were immoral and subversive to life. Reframing these syndromes from an integral perspective, allows the retention of the collective dignities of purple and blue in the Guardian syndrome to be re-aligned with the innovation dignities of red and orange in the Commercial syndrome, while avoiding the unhealthy misappropriation of the disasters inherent in Jacobs’ moral codes. This transcendence and inclusion in evolutionary social systems requires commitment to a purpose-driven, planet-centric set of life-giving principles (captured in the Integral City’s 12 Evolutionary Intelligences and Elisabet Sahtouris’ 15 principles of living systems). Essentially when the health of all the holarchies in the city (and the planet of cities) is contexted with the health of all living systems, a superordinate goal for city governance emerges. Integrally informed organizing practices like Holacracy, Biomimicry Investment Codes and Almere City Principles are all experiments that demonstrate how healthy hybrids based on life-giving principles are emerging in human systems. They suggest ways to develop integrally-informed city governance that avoids monstrous hybrids because they are based on evolutionary life-principles, as requisite levels of complexity for survival.

This is an Abstract from a longer article for the Integral Post. The complete article is available here: 
http://integrallife.com/integral-post/integral-city-systems-survival#comment-5040

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Evolutionary Intel Ensures Survival of Human Species

Posted in city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, tagged , , , on August 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Exploring the intelligence of the city is a necessary research project to ensure the survival of the human species on this earth.  

Bucky Fuller   “The 21st century is when we find out if the human race is a failed experiment.”  “We do not have a political problem, we have a design problem. We must design a world where everyone can succeed, or everyone will fail.”

The never ending quest of the human evolutionary impulse, will likely lead us to continue to reach off earth to access the infinite supply of resources elsewhere in our solar system and the univese.  Eventually evolutionary intelligence will lead us to create the conditions where human life can be supported in space cities or colonies.

If our experiment on earth succeeds, we will then be able to apply the intelligences we develop on earth to obtain the resources to build space colonies from space. (For we do not have sufficient energy or resources to move the necessary resources from earth to a space colony.)

Thus we have many years of Integral City capacity building ahead of us — from food production and shelter construction, to inner space people development systems to mining meteorites — to create before a self-sustaining planet earth can serve (and a space colony can emerge).

This will require us to grow the capacities of collaboration, community, constellation and colonization beyond any context the human system has ever evolved.

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Connect City-Eco-Regional Holarchy: Improve Health

Posted in Integral Maps, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »


The four quadrant perspectival map of reality (bio-psycho-cultural-social) can be shape-shifted into a nested holarchy of city holons.

This scalar fractal map shows the relationship amongst the micro, meso and macro human systems at multiple levels of scale from the individual to the family/group, organization, sector, community, city, eco-region and the world. Integral intelligence looks at the city, as a whole system, in the context of its eco-region. So we can see cities in their natural environment (whether that be mountain, sea, prairie, desert, lakeland or any of the other 12 geographies of the world). As Jared Diamond reminds us, human systems must pay attention to their climate, geography and natural ecology in order to make sustainable decisions for survival and connecting with other cities in economic, social, cultural or environmental exchange.

Cities must also develop resilience against attacks from internal invaders (like conflicting values systems) and external predators (like hostile economies that extract financial, human or natural resources without replacing them in a reciprocal exchange). An Integral City is dynamic, adaptive and responsive to both its internal life conditions and external life conditions. The holarchy of nested human systems can be used as mindfulness lenses to help us differentiate perspectives that remind us about different views and different scales. They show us another way that the fractal and holonic existences of human systems and sub-systems interact with one another. When the holarchical map is combined with the four quadrant Integral map of the city, they offer a new organizing principle to interpret information from Global Information Systems (GIS) maps.

An Integral City goes beyond the sustainability of the human systems which it contains and actually adds value to the bio-region in which it is located and/or to the bio-regions to which it is connected. Ultimately this means that an Integral City would be governed by its capacity to develop, maintain and regenerate life-giving resources. Such a city’s health would be measured in the context of the bio-region’s health and the planet’s health.

The Integral maps give us insight into the vibrancy of wholeness of the city and help us to detect when that wholeness is  disconnected and out of synch. They help us understand how the city as a whole functions internally, while seeing the commonalities in the patterns of human systems that link them externally to other cities facing the same affronts to their integralness and thus their capacity for integration and integrity. This map gives us a way to live into the maxim (oft repeated by Meg Wheatley): “If you want to improve the health of a system, connect it to more of itself”.

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Meshworking EVOLUTIONARY Intelligences for the Human Hive

Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, A. Contexting Intelligences, city, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »


This blog is the second prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference.

Evolutionary Intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences we currently demonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge.

Evolutionary Intelligence is an impulse present at the centre of our Integral City compass, that springs from our evolutionary history and impels us to reach forward into our evolutionary future. It assumes that life conditions will continue to change and the human species will change and adapt and evolve with such changes.

In framing evolution, Integral City draws on an integral geological map developed by Eddy (2003) which embraces three meta-spheres: the Cosmosphere that spans the universe; the Biosphere that includes the living global environment; and the Anthroposphere that embraces the human condition. Eddy’s map effectively integrates the human condition within the three spheres as massively entangled at all scales and times.

The Anthroposphere in the Integral City (Hamilton, 2008) is captured in the Integral City Compass with its five sets of capacities, twelve intelligences and thirty-six principles.

It is only by meshworking intelligences in the human hive in an evolutionary way that we will survive long enough as a species, to grow the capacities of collaboration, community, and urbanization beyond any context the human system has ever evolved.

In fact applying evolutionary strategic design will not just be useful for selecting appropriate approaches for sustainability for cities in the developed and developing worlds but it will be the necessary paradigm for all cities with a plurality of cultures to integrate their many worlds into a workable evolutionary operating system.

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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 , , , on December 17, 2009 |


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 appreciate the challenge to the survival of our species. Those are the people who need to find each other and find common cause for shifting mindsets on a global basis. MH


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/05/world/climate-graphic-players.html

Published: December 5, 2009

Who’s at the Climate Talks, and What Do They Seek?

Representatives of nearly 200 nations will gather in Copenhagen for an international conference on global warming. As big greenhouse gas emitters, the United States and China are expected to be pivotal to the outcome. Many other countries fall into the formal and informal clusters described here.

Group of 77

This organization of 130 developing countries, founded in 1964, will push hard at Copenhagen for deep cuts by the industrialized nations. Arguing that cuts in carbon dioxide emissions should not come at the expense of their development, these nations will also push for money and technology transfers from wealthier nations to allow alternatives to fossil-fuel-based industrialization. 

42% of emissions 19% of G.D.P. 76% of people  

China

China, with the world’s largest population and largest emissions of greenhouse gases, could be viewed as one of two 800-pound gorillas in the room, with the United States. A developing nation, China has refused to accept firm limits on its emissions but has instead proposed a “carbon intensity” target, reducing its emissions per dollar of economic output by 40 to 45% by 2020. 

21% of emissions 6% of G.D.P. 20% of people  

Other large developing nations

Other large developing nations like Brazil and India have also insisted they cannot be held to hard emissions targets. India, which initially resisted even nonbinding targets, has said it will reduce its carbon intensity by 20 to 25 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels. 

6% of emissions 4% of G.D.P. 20% of people  

African Union

The 50-member bloc of mostly poor nations has been vocal in demanding cuts of 40 percent from 1990 emission levels by 2020 for industrialized countries. The group walked out of a pre-Copenhagen conference in November and has threatened to boycott or otherwise derail the Copenhagen talks if its demands are not met. 

3% of emissions 2% of G.D.P. 13% of people  

Small island states

The Association of Small Island States, a 39-member group, has perhaps the most urgent argument for sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: a number of them could literally become uninhabitable with moderate increases in sea level. It has called for a reduction of emissions by 85% by 2050. But the coalition’s political bargaining power at Copenhagen is expected to be modest. 

1% of emissions 1% of G.D.P. 1% of people  

OPEC

The largest oil-producing nations have repeatedly demanded financial compensation for any decrease in oil prices resulting from climate treaties. Because these countries can affect the global economy through oil price gyrations, their position may gain some traction at Copenhagen. 

6% of emissions 2% of G.D.P. 5% of people  

Rainforest Coalition

This group of heavily forested nations is promoting the issuing of emission credits for financing the preservation or expansion of forests (which absorb carbon dioxide) in less developed countries. Some observers suggest that the program, called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), is one of the best prospects for agreement between industrialized and developing nations. 

4% of emissions 3% of G.D.P. 19% of people  

Annex 1 countries

These are the wealthy, developed countries that were required under the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 to reduce emissions, typically about 8 percent below 1990 levels. The United States, technically a part of Annex 1, refused to ratify the protocol. 

51% of emissions 75% of G.D.P. 19% of people  

United States

The other 800-pound gorilla, the United States ranks among the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide per capita of any large country. (Certain small countries like Qatar emit more per person.) With the Senate unable to pass climate legislation before the Copenhagen meeting, the Obama administration will be limited in what it can offer. Yet President Obama has signaled a greater willingness to cooperate with international efforts to reduce emissions than his predecessor, George W. Bush. 

20% of emissions 30% of G.D.P. 5% of people  

European Union

European nations have led the push for firm emission limits, with some on track to meet their Kyoto goals. They will push for new, more stringent emission limits for industrialized countries so that the market in emission credits does not collapse. An enforcement mechanism providing penalties for failure to comply is favored by much of Europe, where there is a commitment to moving away from fossil fuels. 

15% of emissions 25% of G.D.P. 8% of people  

Former Soviet republics

Many former Soviet republics will push for continuing or expanding the “joint implementation” mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, which allows certain industrialized nations with heavy emissions to earn emission credits by financing climate-friendly projects in other developed countries. Former Soviet states have been prominent among the host parties for these projects, which bring them foreign investment. 

9% of emissions 2% of G.D.P. 4% of people  

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A Convergence of Capabilities

Posted in Global/Worldcentric, tagged , , , , , , , on August 6, 2009 |


As we travel our journeys of purpose, on purpose, with purpose, it is so comforting to know that others are doing the same. It releases the burden (and hubris) of thinking that you have to do it all. Today I am thinking of four events going on in the world simultaneously in four different cities and three different continents:

In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Jim Garrison and Peter Merry and team are working with the city and country to catalyze their energy around initiatives for climate change. This kicks off the State of the World Forum Climate Change ten year initiative.

In Toronto, Canada Dr. Don Beck is presenting to the American Psychological Association his views of a new psychology — Large Scale Psychology.  This helps explain human behaviour in large agglomerations like cities, cultures and communities. Our intensely local, trans-local, and  global interactions demand new frameworks to understand how life conditions are triggering our actions and shaping our adaptive responses to change.

On Whidbey Island, WA, USA, the Integral Education Conference is convening for the third year to explore how best to teach humans of all ages to live, work, play in the integral paradigm.

In Tuscany, Italy, Andrew Cohen and his EnlightenNext team are in the midst of a 20 day Discovery Cycle retreat where participants are discovering the depths of practise to Be and Become, so that they can activate their roles as Evolutionaries — active contributors who embody the evolutionary impulse.

The study of Climate Change, Human Behaviour, Capacity to Learn/Teach, our Spiritual Evolution – all give me great hope for the species. The Integral Worldview is opening up new ways for us to survive, connect with our environment and reproduce our memes (as well as our genes) — in other words to LIVE at a new order of being/becoming, that embraces sustainable, intelligent whole systems thinking.

Interestingly the venues for these events are a combination of alive cities and resilient eco-regions – reminding us of the co-creative emergence of our human hives in the context of their re-source-ful environments. I can see many ways that Integral Cities will benefit from each of these undertakings.  I am deeply grateful to Don Beck, the Integral Education Conference Convenors (the Martineau team et al), Andrew Cohen and EnlightenNext, and Jim Garrison, Peter Merry and team, for being inspirations as we travel along the Via Integral — each encouraging and inspiring the others.

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The Master Rule as Three Faces of God

Posted in Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged , on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »


Listening to Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen on their webcasted dialogue last week prompted ponderings on the three faces of God in the city.

The Third Face of God — represented as the face of the third person — the God we see in the other as we walk the streets of the city. This is the same God we see in the artifacts that have become the built city itself.

The Second Face of God — represented as the face of the second person — the thou/We God whom we serve as we live, work, re-create together. This is the same God with whom we relate in our families, clans (ethnic and corporate). But it is also the God to whom we bow the knee (Andrew’s expression) as being greater than our individual egoic selves. A God who is greater than we can be as an individual.

The First Face of God — represented as the face of the first person — the I /me /mine God whom we see in the mirror, experience every minute. The awesome face of God embodied in our selves.

It was especially interesting to hear the dialogue acknowledge how well we know the third and first faces of God. But us modern and post-modern citizens balk at embracing the second face of God, because of the fear of releasing our self-control to a greater expression of Good/God.

But in considering the three faces of God, I was brought back to the Master Rule  I propose for the Integral City( in my book). I was struck by a blinding flash of the obvious!! The Master Rule embraces the three faces of God.

Look after yourself (first face of God)

Look after each other (second face of God)

Look after this place (third face of God)

So the struggle to “bend the knee” to the second face of God is the struggle to look after each other. As the City’s challenging life conditions multiply, it strikes me that our efforts to look after each other must complexify in order for us to look after both ourselves and this place. Ultimately this is a basic survival rule for our species. It shows up in our bio-psycho-cultural-social realities — and it is a basic spiritual precept.

It turns out the Master Rule for the Integral City is a Spiritual Rule.

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