Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge

AlterNet has published an excellent article that seeks to summarize the "new economy movement" - at least from a progressive perspective - including sustainability, community, co-ops, localization...

So we find ourselves in the midst of economic disruptions that may well foreshadow long-term, whole-system economic breakdowns fed by a full spectrum of emerging dynamics - from resource depletion...

   The consensus process strips away all the extraneous    issues and allows people to speak to each other.  Most    of the time, people learn that the other side is not as    “wrong” as they initially...

Ernest Callenbach's ECOTOPIA and its prequel ECOTOPIA EMERGING were major books in my developing thinking about how a sustainable society might evolve. ECOTOPIA, the more famous of the two, provides...

What would wholesome capitalism look like? "Wholesome" means healthy, in the sense of something that promotes physical and moral well-being. Wholesome capitalism would take into account the wholeness...

My intern Patrick Maxwell and CII president John Abbe have initiated a project I'm quite excited about. In high quality dialogue they plan to engage local people together about their personal concerns...

This is too much! Blood and Gore promoting sustainable capitalism. I mean, where are their PR agents??? http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/article.mpl?newsletterid=58&articleid=872 The article has some...

The executive order signed by Obama March 16, 2012, authorizes widespread federal (and often military) control and manipulation of the national economy and resources "under both emergency and non-emergency...

Two weeks ago I had an intense conversation with a colleague working with a local Occupy community. A small faction had recently done a protest that - although physically nonviolent - was not verbally...

Rebecca Solnit has written a great article on Occupy, relationships, differences, violence, and a lot more. A potent, passionate framing for our times, worth a full, reflective read.   Coheartedly...

For almost 5 years I've been involved with envisioning and creating a "pattern language" for group process. (A pattern language is a set of design factors to guide people in creating things that are...

More and more I think of my transformational work as a DNA-modifying RNA molecule, tweaking the changes needed for conscious evolution. The dominant social DNA - the society-shaping designs and dynamic...

The debate over corporate power and money in politics is beginning to generate some significant light - good analysis, integral thinking, creativity - as well as heat - passion, slogans, quick response...

There are many emerging strategies to counter corporate control of our political life (quite in addition to efforts to counter their control of our economic lives). Seeing this as a necessity if we...

This is a critical development: See http://bit.ly/xiMvYM. This article claims that Citizens United and other such recent decisions were NOT, in fact, based on a corporate personhood argument (see the...