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June 2012

Derivatives challenge citizenship (and economic survival)

I’m interested in derivatives as a symbol of an economic system that’s NOT based on productivity that satisfies real human needs. Derivatives are contracts that shift risk from players who are risk averse (and want insurance against loss) to playe…

More great resources on dialogue and deliberation

Three weeks ago I wrote about the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) as a great resource for co-intelligence-oriented professionals and change agents. I want to reiterate my respect for this organization and alert you to sever…

Emerging EcoNomics #3: The New Sharing Economy

One of the key features of “the new economy” is sharing. More and more people are sharing housing, cars, bikes, tools, meals, skills, money, books, ideas, music, energy, recreation, projects, transportation, knowledge, problem-solving, visions, jo…

June-July 2012 Co-Intelligence Institute fundraiser

We’d like your support for what we do. Here’s a short post about that. Our society is clearly at a turning point. I suspect you can feel it as much as I do. Things are getting worse and worse rather quickly – just as breakthrough innovations and p…

From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom

What’s going on with our politics? On the one hand, we in the US are watching grotesque income inequality and extreme wealth being used to buy power and more wealth to further control our political and economic systems. On the other hand, we have …

Six faces of wholeness

I offer here a framework for understanding what I might call “big” wholeness – a sensibility I have about wholeness that I can never articulate but which continually demands that I try. This framework attempts to embrace the manifestations of that…