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Choose Earth Now

Duane Elgin sets out the steps we can take to Choose Earth in the most positive way possible.

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Published on August 16, 2021 04:09

Donut Economics Energizes a Planet of Integral Cities

Kate Raworth’s Donut Economics provides the foundation for a Planet of Integral Cities to see themselves both internally through what you call placecaring and placemaking, but also externally through the interaction with other cities in the world and how they enable social justice and Earth system balance.

As Integral City recognized AAmsterdam as the Integral City of the Year 2019 (because it demonstrated all the Integral City GPS intelligences in action), Kate’s Amsterdam City Portrait identifies key steps to put the Donut into practice:

Embrace the 21st Century Goal. Aim to meet the needs of people within the means of the living planet.See the big picture. Recognize the potential roles of what Integral City calls the 4 Voices to transform and synergize economies : Citizens (household); Business Innovators (market); Civic Managers (state); and 3rd Sector/Civil Society (commons).Nurture human nature. Promote diversity, participation, collaboration, and reciprocity. (This relates to your borrowing of the roles from the honey bees: diversity generators, conformity enforcers, resource allocators and inner judges).Think in systems. Experiment, learn, adapt, evolve and aim for continuous improvement. Expect non-linear “messiness” through dynamic feedback loops and tipping points.Be distributive. Work in the spirit of open design and share the value with all who co-create it. (This relates to Integral City’s Master Code of Care: for self, others, place, planet.)Be regenerative. Aim to work with the cycles of the living world (as Integral City sets out in Living Intelligence.)Aim to thrive rather than grow. (This aligns with your proposal to “right size” cities so they can thrive on purpose adding value to all life on Earth.)This blog series considers the factors that will contribute to the evolution of Gaia’s Human Hives in the next hundred years.Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (1) Big Challenges Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (2) Imagine Gaia Thrives Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (3) Alive Cities Evolve Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (4) World Threats Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (5) Population Growth Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (6) Powers of 10 Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (7) Demographics Evolve Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (8) Nature Economy Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (9) Systems Reframe Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (10) Development Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (11) New Cities Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (12) Conclusion Wisdom of Living Systems from Elisabet Sahtouris Vandana Shiva Guides us to Earth Democracy Donut Economics Energizes a Planet of Integral Cities Choose Earth Now

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Published on August 16, 2021 04:03

Vandana Shiva Guides us to Earth Democracy

Vandana Shiva’s 10 Principles lead us to Earth Democracy through Justice, Sustainability and Peace which in turn create the life conditions for Regenerativity.

Ecological Democracy – Democracy of all life

We are all members of the Earth community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. No humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people or treat them with cruelty and violence.

Intrinsic worth of all Species and Peoples

All species, humans and cultures have intrinsic worth. They are subjects, not objects of manipulation or ownership. No humans have the right to own other species, other people or the knowledge of other cultures through patents and other intellectual property rights.

Diversity in Nature and Culture

Defending biological and cultural diversity is a duty of all people. Diversity is an end in itself, a value, a source of richness both material and cultural.

Natural Rights to Sustenance

All members of the Earth Community including all humans have the right to sustenance — to food and water, to safe and clean habitat, to security of ecological space. These rights are natural rights, they are birthrights given by the fact of existence on earth and are best protected through community rights and commons. They are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain all through privatisation or monopoly control.

Earth Economy is based on Economic Democracy and Living Economy

Earth democracy is based on economic democracy. Economic systems in Earth Democracy protect ecosystems and their integrity, they protect people’s livelihoods and provide basic needs to all. In the earth economy there are no disposable or dispensable species or people. The earth economy is a living economy. It is based on sustainable, diverse, pluralistic systems that protect nature and people, are chosen by people, for the benefit of the common good.

Living Economies are built on Local Economies

Conservation of the earth’s resources and creation of sustainable and satisfying livelihoods is most caringly, creatively and efficiently and equitably achieved at the local level. Localization of economics is social and ecological imperative. Only goods and services that cannot be produced locally, using local resources, local knowledge should be produced non-locally and traded long distance. Earth democracy is based on vibrant, resilient local economies, which support national and global economies. The global economy does not crush and destroy local economies.

Living Democracy

Earth democracy is based on local living democracy with local communities, organised on principles of inclusion and diversity and ecological and social responsibility having the highest authority on decisions related to the environment and natural resources and to the sustenance and livelihoods of people. Authority is delegated to more distant levels of governance on the principle of subsidiarity. Earth democracy is living democracy.

Living Knowledge

Earth democracy is based on earth centered and community centered knowledge systems. Living knowledge is knowledge that maintains and renews living processes and contributes to health of the planet and people. It is also living knowledge in that it is embedded in nature and society, is not abstract, reductionist and anti-life. Living knowledge is a commons, it belongs collectively to communities that create it and keep it alive. All humans have a duty to share knowledge. No person or corporation has a right to enclose monopolize patent or exclusively own as intellectual property living knowledge.

Balancing Rights with Responsibility

In earth democracy, rights are derived from and balanced with responsibility. Those who bear the consequences of decisions and actions are the decision makers.

Globalizing Peace, Care and Compassion

Earth democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict. Earth democracy globalizes compassion, not greed, and peace, not war.

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Published on August 16, 2021 03:58

Wisdom of Living Systems from Elisabet Sahtouris

A natural sequence for the creative renewal of the city involves the key steps of: Discovery, Strategic Planning, Contexting Sustainability & Resilience, Connecting & Communicating and Governing. We can review a city’s approaches to creative placecaring and placemaking with the steps set out 2 below (with parenthetic links to the numbered sequence of the Principles of Living Systems from Elisabet Sahtouris).

Discovery

Value history, traditions culture that works well for all (14)Enable creative change to replace what does not work with what works better (15)Create valued and valuable city vision with wisdom and resources for all (1)Appreciate great diversity of the 4+1 Voices (producers, inventors/artists, resource allocators and integrator – citizens, business, civic managers, civil society) (2)

Strategy

Create an innovation eco-system for a thriving economy that engages manufacturers, universities, business, innovation labs (7)Create conditions for full employment through training from k-U, coordinating youth, interns, business, government (10)Learn in school and practise day to day: mutual trust and respect; dialogue; feedback; teamwork; life-long learning and life-giving projects/processes for all (4)Balance interests for healthy economy and wellbeing for all by engaging 4+1 Voices of the city in setting goals, planning, deciding (5)

Context Regenerativity

Create an integrated regenerativity plan to measure sustainable climate, energy, water, food and finance for city and eco-region and create a circular economy (8)Add value to economy and eco-region, nation, planet for resilience (6)Create information systems that inform decisions for/with/as 4+1 Voices of the city and state, region, nation (9)Be a model of sustainability & resilience for other cities in eco-region, nation, continent and planet (3)Respond to stresses at all scales to create resilient city where stakeholders work together to create wellbeing conditions for all (13)

Network

Connect all Voices/Stakeholders with communication technology to optimize communication internally and the rest of world (9)

Govern

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Published on August 16, 2021 03:52

Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (12) Conclusion

Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities.

Conclusions

MH: Thank you Gaia. I can see that Integral City evolution for the next century starts with a commitment to practising the Master Code. A spectrum of strategies is needed to effectively align city development with Earth’s 3 ecosystems and evolutionary strata.

We must apply our GPS intelligences to ensure the survival of the human species long enough for us to mature beyond the over consumption of our natural capital in every eco-region on this planet to cooperate, collaborate and co-evolve with you Gaia.

Thus, we have many generations of Integral City capacity building ahead of us to create self-sustaining human habitats on our home planet. This will require us to grow the capacities of collaboration, community, and urbanization beyond any context the human system has ever evolved. We will need to work at multiple scales simultaneously – at the multiple scales of human systems nested within the city as a whole: systems, organizations, families/groups and individual leadership.

Furthermore, applying evolutionary strategic design will not just be useful for considering different approaches to cities in the developed and developing worlds, but also to designing new cities that embrace the developmental trajectory of the human system at all scales. What’s more, these design approaches can also apply to designing space stations, and space colonies (such as those being considered by Musk on Mars (Titcomb, 2017). And these design elements certainly presage Book 4 in the Integral City series, with its exploration of the evolutionary eras of the human hive.

MH: At the beginning of this lecture, I started with this question.

“How can we design a city for the wellbeing of our granddaughters and future generations in a way that adds value to all Life on Earth?”

I asked: “How do we wake up, grow up, clean up and whole up the human hive? Why should we care for her resilient souls, understand the context of people’s goals, develop organizational capacity for critical roles, amplify sustaining energy flows or heal the traumatic impact of warring blows?”

Now I hope from this exploration with you Gaia, we can learn how to craft a Curriculum for Schooling a Planet of Integral Cities 2121. Let us collaborate to reframe and regenerate what it means to live fully alive in in our human hives not just for the next 100 years – but well beyond that.

Good News –

Gaia: And as an epilogue I would like to share, that you are not alone. You invite others into the wisdom of Integral Cities through the training that is forming the foundations of Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities. And your annual awards of Meshworker of the Year and Integral City of the Year make visible the progress we are making.

In addition, I notice that a host of Wise Peers and Elders have much to support us in our work of regenerating cities and creating a planet of Integral Cities – I share just 4 in subsequent blogs:

Elisabet Sahtouris, Vandana Shiva, Kate Raworth, Duane Elgin

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Published on August 16, 2021 03:12

Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (11) New Cities

Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities.

MH: Can you give us some guidance for designing whole new cities?Designing New Cities

Gaia: Keeping in mind the challenges of bringing new lenses to the development of existing cities, let’s consider how to design Neo-Cities? This may become especially relevant in the next century if we set out to right-size cities and create life conditions for creating new cities.

Questions for Neo-Cities as Human Hives

We need to ask designers, investors and developers questions about their intentions:

How is a Neo-City a logical next step for your development (vs villages and communities)?If the Neo-City assumes that it is possible to create a specialized habitat for humans with select interests:How will Neo-Cities learn from the Masdar or Dubai effect – where construction and maintenance workers cannot afford to live there?How do Neo-Cities administer themselves democratically?How do the voices of non-elite workers and residents get equally heard with those of the elite?Do Neo-Cities risk developing caste systems (internally or in comparison to external cities)?Internal Requirements of Neo-Cities

MH: Thinking about the Neo-Cities is undeniably exciting, especially when they seem to be really designed with the external requirements of the human hive in mind.

But, when viewing the ghost cities in China which have been built and stand virtually empty without residents, I am curious if designers of Neo-Cities have considered any of the internal requirements of the human hive, such as:

Considering that humans go through a developmental cycle, how have they built into the design of the city, the fact that we all start out at a basic developmental stage and must learn our way through a series of such stages?Do the designers recognize vertical development in themselves? Have they made allowances for continuous learning and the need for the city to change over time? (DeKay, 2011)What happens if assumptions about the city’s environment (both internal and external) are drastically altered by events not under the designer’s control (e.g., natural disasters, or man-made invasions)?How do Neo-Cities defend themselves from external invaders such as envy, greed, power-plays, pandemics?What is the right relationship of Neo-Cities to other Neo-Cities and Traditional, Modern, Post-Modern Cities?Neo-Cities Need Neo-Civics

Gaia: Good questions. With Neo-Cities on the drawing boards – and even before Investor Boards, I wonder if the investors will consider similar aspects of investing in cities as they do in entrepreneurial start-ups, especially remembering the importance of the organizational team? (In the last year alone, I have encountered intentions for creating new city projects in the USA, Canada, UK, Spain, Russia, Costa Rica, Japan).

In entrepreneurial ventures the quality of the people generally outweighs the cleverest of ideas or the most unusual patents. I suggest the same considerations for team quality ought to be true of Neo-Cities. But how will that be done? Here are more questions to consider:

Will there be an application process for citizens? Will the investors form a recruitment team for desirable citizens?What criteria will they use to choose the initial citizens?Will the criteria hold the same seeds of disaster that many an intentional community has sown?How will the recruiters separate their own biases from the needs of the Neo-City?How will the designers build in the appropriate form of governance? Will they design the first stage and then expect neo-politicians to take over the subsequent stages of developing governance – like condominium/strata corporations in 2021?Will the state become involved in setting standards for Neo-Cities? Will Neo-Cities exempt themselves from state interference through economic separation of banking and transactional exchanges? Will they design themselves for Earth/Social Justice balance with the wisdom of the new economics (like Donut Economics)?Does a Neo-City need a neo-civics? Would that evolve out of Integral City’s 4 Voices and 4 Roles???Might the Integral City 4 Voices provide the stem-cells for such a neo-civics?

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Published on August 16, 2021 02:56

Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (10) Development

Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities.

Development Strategies

Gaia Continues: Not surprisingly the roots of Gaia-centric designs for city wellbeing offer us a way of imagining the human hive that we can explore with the core principles of living systems, the 12 intelligences, 5 maps and 4 Voices.

Essentially these core principles of meshworking for city development include the following:

Implement the Master Code

1. Create an Agreement to Work Together with the Formation Team (including all 4 Voices), based on the Master Code: Take care of Self, so that you can care for Others, so together we care for our Place(s), and all of us can care for our Planet.

Honor the Spheres

2. Identify the change condition of the ABC spheres of the city container, map them with the GPS and Discovery Profiles. (Figure 5).

Recognize Threat(s)

3. Name and evolutionarily map the environmental threat(s) in the system – overcoming the dissonance that provides the impetus or catalyst to change (Figure 6).

Develop with Purpose

4. Identify the purpose for developmental change – create the vision for changing the city from what to what (e.g., Traditional to Modern; or Modern to Post-Modern; or Post-Modern to Integral)?

Engage Stakeholders

5. Use Integral City maps 1,2,3,4, 5 to find the agents for developmental change – engage all the 4 Voices (as many stakeholders in the process as possible) – actively seek out diversity and make room for difference.

6. Enable leadership to emerge to champion the development and address the threat(s) at the appropriate levels of complexity (Figure 6).

Facilitate Change Processes (summary of City Development)

7. Amplify the resources available for development from all 5 maps (in Step 4) so others can see them (e.g., in scenario planning).

8. Amplify the threat(s) to development so others can see it/them (Figure 6).

9. Integrally identify the resources needed to facilitate the change and invite and involve stakeholders to contribute to them (Figure 6).

Design with Integral Methodologies

10. Use Integral City Master Code, GPS, Intelligences and Principles as checklists to determine “right action”.

11. Co-design Integral methodologies for developmental change that self-organize passion, purpose, priorities, people, and planet. Expect it to be messy.

Learn from Feedback Loops

12. Create reflective feedback loops and Integral vital signs monitors (based on Navigational Intelligence) so that participants can self-correct and develop operational structures that work.

13. Make the feedback accessible to all by communication, publication and display; e.g., community gatherings, community newspapers, online media, real time intelligence display systems.

14. Pay forward to other stakeholders, cities, the Integral learning for development, evolution and adaptation.

Practise the Master Code Take care of Self, so that you can care for Others, so together we care for our Place(s), and all of us can care for our Planet.

MH: Ok, I can see how this is not easy work for existing cities – but I think necessary for us to regenerate our relationship with you Gaia. We have not been very respectful of you as our Mother. And I can see that unless we take these steps then you may decide that our cities are not a successful evolutionary experiment to become Gaia’s Reflective Organs.

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Published on August 16, 2021 02:47

Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (9) Systems Reframe

Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities.

Table 1: Paradigms & Levels of Complexity (adapted from D. Beck with permission)

MH: If things are this precarious, how can we move beyond the threats and disasters of 2021 into some kind of positive future? Cities Learn & Care: Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities

Gaia: Well, luckily, I only design systems that learn and evolve (at least the ones I keep alive and in service to all life on planet Gaia). What you need is to shift from thinking in just intermittent projects to creating the conditions for Schooling a whole Planet of Integral Cities.

Reframing with Systems Thinking

From my Gaian perspective, the current situation needs systems thinking lenses like the ones Meadows (Meadows, 2008) long ago worked out to identify the core leverage points to intervene in a system:

Numbers Buffers Stock-and-Flow Structures Delays Balancing Feedback Loops Reinforcing Feedback Loops Information Flows Rules Self-organization Goals Paradigms Transcending Paradigms

Keeping the most effective leverage points in mind as the paradigms in use and how to transcend them, we discover in the Integral City Map 4 clues to understanding what are the driving values of the Traditional, Pre-Modern, Modern and Post-modern/Integral paradigms as shown in Table 1.

In effect Table 1 (and Map 4) shows us a relationship between the worldviews (which define who is the center of the universe), driving values and the level of complexity. The more advanced worldviews (Integral, post-modern and modern) act as the amplifiers to the capacity of the structures in cities in the developed world. On the other hand, the less complex worldviews (traditional and modern) act as the limiters and filters that make structures in cities in the developing world much less resilient.

So now, we have input that can enable us to design a strategy for city development that aligns development with the systems embedded in the people, place, priorities and planet who will be impacted.

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Published on August 16, 2021 02:38

Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (8) Nature Economy

Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities.

Nature Economy

Gaia Continues: Along with these evolving population profiles, life conditions are also shifting in cities around the world, producing a toxic mix of interconnected threats. The relationship of natural capital to human endeavor shows that human society (in the industrial and post-industrial world) is almost bankrupt because it is now consuming my Earth’s capital at a dangerous and unsustainable rate. As noted by Rees and Wackernagel with their Eco Footprint (1994) over two decades ago, living at this rate of consumption demands the equivalent of three to four planets.

All of this demonstrates to me, that I need to create an evolutionary solution – especially if I want you humans to build “new cities”.

MH: Before we talk about new cities, let’s consider what we need to know to regenerate existing cities.

Implications for Development of Existing Cities

Gaia: As we have seen, an evolutionary analysis of sustainability threats tells us that cities in the developing world face greater levels and more complex risks than cities in the developed world. These relate to both the internal ways of thinking, cultural beliefs and visions of the future as well as in the external behaviors and structures and systems of the city. That’s why you suggest that developing quality of life in your human habitats requires both placecaring and placemaking.

Ecological Implications for City Regeneration

When threats to city sustainability occur because of major natural disasters, restoring city capacities depends on strategies that must be evolutionarily appropriate to the level of complexity of the city while keeping in mind its ecology, climate and natural capital load (Esborn-Hargens & Zimmerman; Zimmerman 2010, 2005).

Many examples of disaster-based meltdowns, dramatically illustrate the difference of regeneration in the developed world (e.g., Sendai, Japan) compared to the developing world (Haiti).

Where the threats are less dramatic, for example where deterioration has occurred over extended time frames, the results may be no less drastic. For instance, in places where there is little social equity for workers’ health and safety, toxic soups of physical and chemical deterioration endanger human survival. We know of polluted cities from cold-war Russia; the electronic and shipping recycling dumps in China and India; the maquiladoras in Mexico and southern Asia – or even Miami’s recent apartment collapse. These cities are stuck in life conditions that have long ago threatened the health of the local Biosphere and toxified the Cosmosphere sufficiently to imperil the health of the Anthroposphere. These same threats are now increasing regional and global deterioration, including global temperature increases, CO2 emissions, terrorism, corruption, refugee displacement and restricted governance participation. In addition such unsustainable city systems are clearly impacting any clear resolution of deforestation, democratization, non-fossil fuel adoption and unemployment (Glenn et al., 2011a, p. 3; 2011b) .

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Published on August 16, 2021 02:29

Gaia Mentors Schooling for a Planet of Integral Cities 2121 (7) Demographics Evolve

Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities.

Figure 6: Demographic Profiles of Four Societies (Page & Johnson, 2011)

Demographic Profiles Evolve

As we are observ ing, people are not all the same in different cities or even within cities. So, as a corollary to the global population data, let’s consider recent analysis of regional demographic profiles that show changes to worldviews and human capacities as the society matures in complexity (Page & Johnson, 2011) .

Figure 6 shows the demographic growth profiles of four societies and their birth rates: Traditional/Pre-Industrial, Pre-Modern/Boom Time, Modern (Industrial)/Still Rising and Post Modern-Early Integral/The Plateau. The clear trend is that as societies become more complex (measured in terms of wealth and/or development), population fertility rates drop, life spans lengthen, and total population size stabilizes or reduces.

The outcomes of this pattern impact the 4 Voices of the City. The demographics of cities/societies result in different proportional impacts of the 4 Voices: Citizens grow from least to greater empowerment. Civic Managers trend from greatest to lesser power; Business/Innovators expand from less influence to more influence; and 3rd Sector/Civil Society discover an increasing capacity for coalescing and cohering all the other Voices.

Beck (Beck, nd) has proposed that in large scale human systems changes in complexity impact the political systems, economics and wellbeing of societies. He makes the point that democracy as a governance system comes in many forms that align with the stages of maturity of a country.

We would propose that cities are the key zones where each of these core society profiles emerge (Traditional, Pre-Modern, Modern Post-Modern/Integral) . The profiles seen in the sample Figure 7 nations (less and more developed) and Figure 8 (low and high income) effectively make visible the demographic shapes of the human hive at ever increasing stages of complexity in the years 1950, 2017, 2050 and 2100.

You can see that from all these profiles the city-nations with the most complex worldviews, most developed and most wealthy populations have proportionately fewer young people and more elders, with gradually stabilizing large populations in mid-life.

Figure 7: Demographic Profiles of Less & More Developed Nations

Figure 8: Demographic Profiles of Low- & High-Income Nations

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Published on August 16, 2021 02:21