Few existing institutions of higher education have sufficiently integral worldviews or evolutionary capacity to teach the knowledge and competencies urgently needed to co-create a sustainable civilization out of our era of rapidly emerging consequ…
I view the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) as one of the most important groups supporting the emergence of democratic participatory wisdom to help societies evolve and thrive in the coming century. I want to encourage every…
The Citizen Initiative Review is a major development on the road to sustainability. It should be supported and promoted by everyone involved with environmental, ecological, and sustainability issues. Let me explain.1. INTELLIGENCEThink about what …
Oregon’s new Citizen Initiative Review is a big positive step away from partisanship and is getting some great press coverage. I think the best so far is this one http://t.co/KxgCMVn . I posted some comments… When one commentator complained that…
Howard Silverman’s excellent “Pragmatism in the Age of Social-Ecological Truths” http://bit.ly/cChKjn notes that pragmatism must take on a new aura in the 21st century. Silverman quotes numerous environmental philosophers about what the new pragma…
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…
With budget-belts tightening at all levels of governance, I have suggested that public engagement is vital to pick up on community and governance functions that official government agencies no longer have enough money to handle well. This goes bey…
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 …
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…