The Spanda Journal special issue on “Systemic Change”, VI, 1, June 2015, is now available at Spanda website.
The issue contains the following articles:
Jean Lievens: Greece as a Beginning – But Dishonest Western Governments Will Not Do What Needs to Be Done….
Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Greece Is Just The Beginning Of The Great Austerity Backlash
EXTRACT
…the exchange with reporters in Washington was another of the many signs that the debate over the power that should accrue to money — and what those who wield it can fairly demand — is spreading around the world.
Anthony Judge: Strategic Self-Reference and World Futures — An Integral Approach to Doing the Right Thing Instead of the Wrong Things Righter
Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Embodying Strategic Self-reference in a World Futures Conference
Transcending the wicked problem engendered by projecting negativity elsewhere
Jerome Glenn: Factors Required for Successful Implementation of Futures Research in Decision Making
Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
EXTRACT
The following table shows the information flow of this report:
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Anthony Judge: Papal Concern for Climate Change and Refugee Care – Cover for Concealing Criminal Systemic Negligence?
Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace IntelligencePapal Concern for Climate Change and Refugee Care
A means of concealing criminal systemic negligence?
Kosmos: Lifecycle of Emergence — Happens FAST!
Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale
By Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible. This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections.
Continue reading “Kosmos: Lifecycle of Emergence — Happens FAST!”
Holy Father: Climate Change Encyclical
Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Pope Francis' Climate Change Encyclical Just Leaked. Here's What It Says.
Humans are causing climate change, and there will be “grave consequences” if we don't act fast, warns the pope.
Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of this century, according to a leaked draft of a papal encyclical. In a document released by an Italian magazine on Monday, the pontiff will warn that failure to act would have “grave consequences for all of us.”
Francis also called for a new global political authority tasked with “tackling…the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions.” His appeal echoed that of his predecessor, pope Benedict XVI, who in a 2009 encyclical proposed a kind of super-UN to deal with the world's economic problems and injustices.
