| Sense in the City NEWSLETTER October 1, 2006 |
| Sense in the City NEWSLETTER October 1, 2006 |
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Wake Up Calls!! for Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City
Today's Integral
City Sparkie for the City Heart:
A system is knowable only as
itself. It is irreducible. We cant disentangle the effects
of so many relationships. The connections never end. They
are impossible to understand by analysis.
This October issue of Sense in the City Newsletter has a theme of eco-survival. We share Integral City relationships and interconnections with the authors of two new books; upcoming Sense in the City ezine issues; Spiral Dynamics integral training; urban Dialogues on "The Great Turning"; and two new links to provocative newsletters.
1. Lester Brown, in his new book "Plan B 2.0" http://www.integralcity.com/DiscoveryZone/Books/bookshelf%20intelligent.html lets us know that cities have an ecology that not only is internal to the urban system, but that cities need to be renewed or designed to be coherent with their natural ecologies. Read more about it in the November ezine on http://www.integralcity.com/Ezine%20Files/archive.asp ======================= 2. Ervin Laszlo, Founder of the Club of Budapest, and prolific author of integral philosophy and systems thinking, offers both warnings about the World at the Cross-Roads and also provides guidelines for action and 10 Benchmarks of an Evolved Consciousness in his recent book "The Chaos Point" http://www.integralcity.com/DiscoveryZone/Books/bookshelf%20intelligent.html . Check out your consciousness at the November 15, ezine published on http://www.integralcity.com/Ezine%20Files/archive.asp
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3. Develop eco-survival lenses at Toronto
Spiral Dynamics integral training
Oct.
20-23 , 2006 ... find details and
registration here: http://www.integralcity.com/DiscoveryZone/Training/SDiL%20Value%20to%20Grads.html
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4. Integral City's Affiliate, the Ginger Group Collaborative Invites Participation in David Korten Dialogues “We
humans are a choicemaking species that at this defining
moment faces both the opportunity and the imperative to
choose our future as a conscious collective act. Changing
our future begins with changing our stories.”
David Korten, The Great Turning
http://www.davidkorten.org/
The Ginger Group
Collaborative in Victoria, BC, invites
you to develop momentum and energy
through engagement in community dialogues,
based on David Korten's "The Great Turning" in
the next few weeks:
October 3 and October 17th, 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. - 2 community dialogues – Floyds Diner, corner of Yates and Quadra
November 3,
2:00-4:00 p.m. - A
Community Leadership conversation with David Korten –
Friday, TBC
Friday, November 3, 7:00 p.m. The Great Turning: A Public Presentation at the University of Victoria, Students Union Building in conjunction with the Values-based Business Network – Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 4,
9:00 a.m. –
12:00 noon+. An
Earth Community Dialogue Day at the Mews at Royal Roads
University Contact: Diana Smith thegreatturning@ecosolcan.com for further information.
========================= 5. Check out these new links to provocative Blogs on left nav bar of www.integralcity.com
RMN offers a political perspective, that is not a "safe" middle ground between the extremes of left and right. It’s off the traditional left-right spectrum . . . free to gather up ideas from everywhere. ... It’s “radical” because it’s seeking solutions that are holistic and sustainable. It’s “middle” because it accepts that you can’t change people very much. ... The radical middle infuriates many activists because it’s in love with messy, ambitious, exuberant humanity. It says “YES!” to science and technology, to entrepreneurship, to bringing us all into One (admittedly imperfect) World. And it infuriates many others because it wants to give everyone, and we mean EVERYONE, a fair start in life. Most of its preferred solutions won’t be debated on the floor of the Senate anytime soon.
My name is Michael Dudley. In addition to my work as a research associate and librarian here at the Institute of Urban Studies [University of Winnipeg], I maintain the "CityStates" blog, through which I'm commenting on the state of contemporary cities. As a librarian my primary motivation with the blog initially was to be informative -- to link to resources on a range of issues and make connections between those issues. As the site has evolved, the entries have become more opinionated; so it should be stressed that the opinions on these pages do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute of Urban Studies or the University of Winnipeg [or of Integral City]. But since encouraging debate is an essential function of the academy [and Integral City], this blog is also a forum for discussion -- so please feel free to comment on anything you see here...or to suggest stories we should be following! ======================== As always we look forward to hearing from you ... and even better yet seeing you at the trainings, dialogues and events we share with you. cheers and blessings Marilyn Hamilton ...meshworking global intelligences in the global village for global wellbeing…
...evolve your consciousness
with Spiral Dynamics integral training,
Toronto, October 20-23, 2006 ...
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