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Je Suis COP21 – Paris Creates Climate for Change

Is it amazing that 195 nations were able to draft an agreement for Climate Change in Paris last week? Euphoria, celebrations and emotional highs marked the conclusion of the gathering. COP21 had been a long time coming with holdouts, recriminations and resistances marking its predecessor gatherings and the planning for this event. But I wonder […]

Je Suis Paris

I have been mesmerized into muteness regarding Paris since the November 13 attacks. A strange sensation like holding my breath has overtaken me – a kind of numbness and muteness. Writing has happened only in my head – and even then without much coherence. Funny, since I was impelled to write quickly and passionately about […]

Discovering How Politics of Dignity Counters Politics of Fear

In September 2015 the Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands explored with me a proposition: The politics of fear can be trumped by the politics of dignity, regarding refugees, immigrants and voters. We explored this question (drawn from Angela Merkel’s challenge to Europe in the face of the tide of refugees) using Systemic Constellation Work (SCW). […]

Integral City Reflective Organ – October 2015: Places – Smart, Resilient, Integral

This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Place. Just as honeybees adapt themselves to different geographies, human settlements must adapt different solutions to the same infrastructure problems. Each location provides a unique combination of matter, […]

Householder Dharma: Gaining Altitude on a Community of Blessings

One autumn weekend, I joined some friends hiking up Sumas Mountain when skies were clear, air was crisp and the view went on forever. We took binoculars with us so that we could zoom in from the heights above, on life below. As we gazed over the valley fields, it was easy to see the […]

Gaining Altitude on a Community of Blessings

One autumn weekend, I joined some friends hiking up Sumas Mountain when skies were clear, air was crisp and the view went on forever. We took binoculars with us so that we could zoom in from the heights above, on life below. As we gazed over the valley fields, it was easy to see the […]

Waking UP the Human Hive – Recalibrating With Happiness

When we place all the locators of our GPS compass in the service of our cities, we have the very real opportunity of re-calibrating our intentions, expectations and outcomes for cities. Working together as 4 Voices of the City, we have the intelligence to go beyond the Smart City beloved of Civic Managers and Citizens, […]

Integral City GPS Locator Compass

If we are willing to consider the city as the human hive, then how would we locate the four internal roles and one external role that enable its survival and ability to thrive? And how would we notice if our Human Hive were a Smart City or a Resilient City or what I propose as the […]

How Do We Locate the Smart City?

The first GPS locator we look at we could call the Smart City Locator. It tracks the logic of cities using Logic Models – based on Strategic Rational thinking. It depends on scientific and methodical Inquiry – Research and Development in other words. It collects BIG DATA. It uses the Inquiry intelligence to notice patterns […]

How Do We Power Up Our Cities?

All cities of any size draw on energy sources to power functions. Smart Cities and Resilient Cities source their energy externally. To build Smart Cities we drew on fossil fuels. To develop Resilient Cities we are drawing on renewable energy. To energize Integral Cities we tap into the energy at the center of our GPS compass – the […]