Regenerative vs. Sustainable: Is Your Marriage “Sustainable”?
That was a hypothetical question posed in an evening discussion at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) Association in September. The panel discussion featured prominent figures in Sustainable Design: Robert Thayer, Sandy Mendler, and Sim van der Ryn. In the middle of the forum, the panel posed this question to the audience as a...
Occupy My Soul
Occupy My Soul The only way to describe what has happened to myself and a number of Occupy Vancouver organizers (and I suspect many other occupy organizers across the world) is to realize that we have been occupied by occupy! We have been captured and consumed by something that we don’t understand but that...
Amending “People, Planet, Profit”
The phrase “People, Planet, Profit” - coined by author John Elkington – promotes the idea for businesses to succeed in a number of different ways, rather than the traditional ‘bottom line’. Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line brought on a reluctant swell of Corporate Social Responsibility – the idea that corporations should embrace the TBL to benefit...
Configuring Oneself for Transformation
Our system of systems is made of parts that we could consider as coexisting in a milieu, an environment that is not just a container with properties greater than the sum of the parts, but that has a substance, a density, a richness. Something exists “in between” the parts, from which the parts get some...
WE. Inspired. Empowered. Enabled. Building For a Better World.
Time for deterministic philosophies inherited from strands of thought that have shaped the 20th century ethos and led us to surrender to “the system” is over. We need not just sit around, do nothing, and wait for evolution, destiny, god, nature or the invisible hand to take its inevitable course. The fatalist outlook makes the...
Creating a World that Works for 100% of Humanity
In this era of the anthropocene, where many of our global systems are in severe distress, the one thing that has become increasingly clear to me over the last several years is that humanity is entering a new age of activity on this planet.I think of this as the age of re-invention. The institutions that we...
A New Way
Up until about now, it has been accepted practice to be identified with, and to exercise ownership over ideas. This habit is so ingrained in our human thinking that it is not often questioned. It seems however that a new era is upon us, a time of flourishing ideas which are emerging through...
Please design for us…
From members posts in our closed group: Please design for me… How realistic would it be to design an API to export/save group posts/discussions and comments in FB (and LI)? I am not sure it exists. Would be quite handy and a killer app as the issue of convo harnessing and portability are all...
