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Basics about transforming social systems

Steven Brant’s article “Waiting for Superman” http://huff.to/bsCO4t is ostensibly — and provocatively — about the transformation of education. It promotes “design thinking” (aka “systems thinking”), both for redesigning the educational system an…

2010 election in Oregon could change the game…

Do you live in Oregon? Do you have friends, associations, networks in Oregon? If you do, I’m urging you to spread the word on one of the most important developments toward a wiser democracy in the US. Although most Oregonians don’t know it — and …

Judgment, Love, and Wholeness

A big part of loving (to me) is learning to (and making the effort to) let go of judgments of the one I love (and, by extention, progressively, of everyone). This involves unpacking my assignment of the label “bad” into its parts, such as: a. I do…

got a dictionary?

Thanks Mike. My perspective is that jargon is the leading edge of the evolution of language (and to a certain extent culture). As with most emerging species, most jargon does not survive or spread very far outside its original environment. Some of…

From Climate Change to Transformation of Democracy

I laud Garrison for his brilliant formulation of our crisis quo, “From Climate Change to Climate Shock” http://bit.ly/9BTAUa, and his imperative that we actively use unfolding disasters to generate needed changes (just as corporations use them to …

Capacity-building in FourYearsGo

I keep thinking that an undertaking like FourYearsGo would include all of the following capacity-building functions (among others): a. Means to develop a common theme, goal or agenda that all members/allies can support. This taps the power of coll…