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ITC 2015 – Integral City Invites Early Birds to Save Today, Tomorrow

INTEGRAL CITY INVITES YOU ======================================= In downtown ITC there is a public square that invites you – heart and soul.  Join Integral City for a nourishing lunch once, twice or three times – as we prototype a unique unconference with integral impact. Feed Self.  Spark Others.  Serve Community. What to expect – with ITC/IC co-creation: […]

Integral City Intelligences Build on Generative Change

When Integral City is asked to work with cities, inevitably the invitation comes from leaders who have in mind the wellbeing of their city. Tam Lundy’s leadership tip (offered in Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change) explains this impulse in terms of the desire of the leaders to generate change […]

Integral City Leaders Use Generative Change

Out beyond the smart city, out beyond the resilient city, Lives the Integral City.   Integral Leadership Review – Canada Issue offered a Leadership Tip on Generative Change, by Tam Lundy, that acted as a Guide to appreciating all the articles. Tam’s Tip gave the reader an energy boost as you passed through the Totem Entry […]

Integral City Reflective Organ – March Equinox 2015: Signs & Wonders of Planetary Shifts

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 Planet. Popular wisdom urges us to examine human behavior so that the quality of human life can be improved. We focus on overpopulation, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions […]

Meshworkers of the Year Award 2014 – Team ARGO Creators of Russia’s First Citizen Initiated UrbanFest Forum

Building on the Russian translation of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive Team ARGO team in Izhevsk, Russia created Russia’s first citizen initiated and produced urban conference. Accomplishing “lift-off” in the first half of 2014 and subsequent dissemination of the best practices through 360 degree communications, Team ARGO are the natural winners of […]

Cities are Evolving Climate Story

Humans and the cities we have created are permanently locked into a never-ending learning cycle, to create ever more complex adaptations to protect increasingly more complex cities. In the Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (2012), five critical threats to human populations in cities were identified: climate, energy, water, food and finance (Hamilton et al., 2013; […]

Transportation Crossroads in the City

Lessons from history abound to warn us that the shift involved in moving from one worldview, or system of intelligibility, to another, is unlikely to be smooth or easy.  (Brian and Mary Nattrass, Integral Leadership Review – January- February 2015) Today in thinking about our Evolutionary Crossroads in the city I want to consider the […]

Women Tell the Stories that Transform Old Story into New Story

It’s all a question of story. That is how Brian and May Nattrass start their exploration of where we stand on the path of waking up to our new global realities and responsibilities. The stories we tell ourselves are always rooted in time. They explain the past. They comment on the present. They speculate about […]

From Totem Guides and Lock Masters to World Legacy Light – Integral Leadership Review Encore

As Guest Editor of the Integral Leadership Review – Canada (ILR – C) issues, in the February instalment, I imagined, the Rideau Canal lock system symbolizing the environment where the authors in ILR-C interact with the leaders and leadership insights that they have contributed to this special Canada issue. (1)… While the Totem © (above […]

A Totem for Curating a Story of Leadership in Canada – Integral Leadership Review

Reticence. Modesty. Loyalty. Generosity. These qualities often mark the Canadian character and our propensity to downplay the adventure, excitement, daring, risk and courage that influence how we tell our stories of accomplishment and achievement. But those are not the words that sprung to mind when Russ Volckmann invited me to be Guest Editor of this […]