“We were made different to complete each other…” — Egyptian engineer Muhammad Saladin Nusair, whose photo supporting Wisconsin workers went viral… Two remarkable presentations of our common humanity and shared predicament showed up in my emai…
I found this absolutely fascinating, from the perspectives of collective intelligence and social evolutionary dynamics. — Tom From: Rob Lewis via Rick ingrasci: No matter what your opinion is of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, this is b…
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…
Check out this website… particularly its critique of “traditional” sustainability activism and the need for “greatly enhanced capacity for rapid adaptive social learning” — which is largely what my co-intelligence work is all about.
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 …
A group of evolutionary psychologists has replaced the top layer of Abraham Maslow’s influential “Pyramid of Needs” — “self-actualization” — with parenting and mate selection. I just read an article describing the debate surrounding this develop…
In his closing essay for his April 2, 2010 JOURNAL, Bill Moyers references several works on inequality in America. Among these is THE SPIRIT LEVEL: WHY GREATER EQUALITY MAKES SOCIETIES STRONGER by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, who together h…
A reader from South Africa, Pam Sykes, alerted me to an absolutely fascinating and devastating review of Avatar, in which there is much truth and a wealth of sci-fi and fantasy background information. http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/l…
The essay below is from Paul Krafel, one of my teachers about systems and nature. Paul, author of SEEING NATURE, one of the more influential books in my life, runs Chrysalis, a nature-based charter school in northern California http://www.chrysali…