Climate action: Left, Right, Left, Right….
Ironically, while the climate movement is still too white, it is also way too liberal. When the future of civilization is at …
Bits and pieces of Democracy 2.0
There is a LOT of new democracy thinking and experimenting going on – way more than I could put into a reasonable …
What is it about Random Selection??
In recent months I’ve discovered that random selection offers unexpected gifts to our efforts to create more fair, functional, and intelligent politics …
Exploring Wholeness in more detail – to support our highest aspirations
Wholeness is the foundation of the co-intelligence worldview. It is a big subject – embracing many varieties, dimensions, and manifestations of wholeness, …
Potent hope dances with passive hope and spectatorism
Optimism and pessimism are kind of like spectator sports: things are getting better – or – things are getting worse. Passive hope …
The wisdom of the fringes?
In the end, I believe that those who call forth the most collective intelligence and wisdom will be those who can manifest – and help others manifest – two vital capacities: 1. the ability to include more of what is normally overlooked and exclude…
Participatory wisdom and sustainability
I am working with a team exploring the emerging field of participatory sustainability. From this new perspective, sustainability cannot be achieved without increasing the level of co-intelligent participation in all aspects of our public life – es…
Iceland: A multi-dimensional inspiration
According to articles in the links below (and elsewhere) Iceland crowdsourced its new constitution with mass participation and elected delegates to a Constituent Assembly made investors and bankers – not taxpayers – pay for the economic crash (it …
Public Engagement Change We Can Believe In
Below is an interesting piece about the Obama campaign by a fellow named Larry Greene. Alhough I’m not endorsing Obama, this message is written in the spirit of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s “Politician’s Pledge” and it reflects my own sense of …
Public issue conversations and the legitimacy of “we the people”
I see several diverse but not necessarily mutually exclusive types of political conversation, and find that differentiating among them helps me think more clearly about this topic: 1. STAKEHOLDERS: Stakeholder conversations involve people with int…