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…
Thanks Mike. My perspective is that jargon is the leading edge of the evolution of language (and to a certain extent culture). As with most emerging species, most jargon does not survive or spread very far outside its original environment. Some of…
I believe that any person or group wishing to catalyze the emergence of a sustainable civilization must take strategic action to enhance the collective intelligence of entire societies. (NOTE: The term “whole society” or “entire society” does not …
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.
Since Michael Dowd took this piece and posted it on his blog, and added good links, I’ll just send you there… http://thankgodforevolution.com/node/2076
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 …