Below are highlights from Jane Mansbridge’s IN CONTEXT article “Unitary & Adversary: The Two Forms of Democracy”, which was itself an excerpt from her book BEYOND ADVERSARY DEMOCRACY (1983) which has had a significant impact on my thinking. I ofte…
A year ago Doug Reil, the associate publisher of North Atlantic Books, explored with me the possibility of writing a manifesto to clarify my vision of a wise democracy. The culmination of that conversation is my new book EMPOWERING PUBLIC WISDOM: …
I have been lucky to experience healthy relationships, teams, and intentional communities. I’ve experienced them as enjoyable, rewarding and functional – as meaningful, supportive facets of my life and the lives of the others involved. I’ve also s…
The remarkable article below speaks for itself and, since it is long, I won’t add much except strong encouragement for you to read it and a note that you can productively and enjoyably jump around in it (as I did) if you’d rather not progress from…
As powerful economic, ecological, and social imbalances work themselves out in and around our lives, we face some pretty hard times – some of us already, some of us more than others, most of us increasingly. Each of us hopes we can ameliorate the …
So many thoughts on US Independence Day…. 1. For years there have been Declarations of INTERdependence and suggestions and organizing for INTERdependence Day. I first learned about this 8 years ago and wrote it up on the co-intelligence website….
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…
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…
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…
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…