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Michel Bauwens: Emerging Leader Labs
Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Culture, Ethics, P2P / Panarchy
In my opinion, a truly ground-breaking initiative, and a game changer.
Thanks Venessa Miemis, the Quakers, and the whole team, for bringing this about!!
Ask more details via @EmLeaders (twitter).
“”The premise is pretty straightforward: There are plenty of passionate, driven people who want to make cool ideas and projects happen. Access to resources (especially, money) is often a large barrier to actualizing them. So why not create physical locations that don’t require money as a chief organizing energy source, where enthusiastic entrepreneurs, artists, designers and other creatives can come together and prototype their dreams?
The way I previously described the flavor of it was:
the superhero school. a center for disruptive innovation. continuous learning zone. collective intelligence. live/work startup incubator. community center. hackerspace. makerlab. autonomous zone. permaculture and sustainable food production. cooperatively owned communications infrastructure. resilience. r&d lab. a place for creative troublemakers.
The idea wants to happen, so without waiting for conditions to be ‘perfect’ to start, we’ve decided to just go ahead and help build it.
Chuck Spinney: USGS Intelligence with Integrity on Climate Change
Academia, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Below is a USGS press release describing some fascinating geological research into the effects of climate change — a huge drought — on the demise of Egypt's Middle Kingdom around 4200 years ago. This is one extreme climate event occurred well before man contributed significant CO2 to the atmosphere. It is also a interesting example of how one can meld science with contemporary/historical/
This research may also be a good object lesson for that subset of paleoclimatologists who are more concerned with erasing the effects of the Medieval Warming Period (~1000 AD when temperatures may well have been as warm or warmer than today) followed by the Little Ice Age (~1600 AD) from human memory, as a means to prove their theory that current temperature increases are unprecedented and therefore due to mankind's generation of CO2. [see Tony Brown's marvelous essay, “The Long Slow Thaw”]
Histories, archives, and folklore have many contemporary accounts of events suggesting the existence both the MWP (settling of Greenland, growing grapes in Scotland) and the LIA (River Thames freezing). The MWP/LIA sequence raises a cyclical possibility and suggests recent temperature increases (since somewhere between 1750 and 1850) may be a normal recovery from the LIA [e.g., see Professor's Akasofu's analysis here].
The stakes of such an hypothesis are huge, because if the MWP/LIA hypothesis is correct, money spent on adaptation would be a far wiser strategy that a huge, and ultimatly futile effort, to reduce CO2 emissions. [1] That is one reason why the study described below is important — it is an example of the benefits that arise from melding science and history and archaeology.
[1] Ironically, while the US is one of, if not, the largest CO2 emitters, its emissions have leveled off and show signs of declining according to data compiled by the Energy Information Administration. [source: here]
Chuck Spinney
Gaeta, Italia
Climate and Drought Lessons from Ancient Egypt: Using Fossil Pollen to Augment Historical Records
Released:8/16/2012 10:00:00 AM
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John Steiner: Whither Fukushima? Whither the World Brain?
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Knowledge
Thanks to: carolwoman <cwolman@mcn.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
This 3 minute video was put together by Dan Villalva , a member of the original Fukushima Response group, in Sonoma County, CA. More groups are forming around the country, as Yastel Yamada and Tak Okamoto, of the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima finish their tour of the US..
Also recommended: fukushimaresponse.org, fukushimawatch.blogspot.com
Our group in the Bay Area has selected 3 goals:
1) Mobilizing an international effort to stabilize Fukushima now
2) Assessing and publicizing the impact of the disaster on California
3) Vigiling Fridays in support of the Japanese people, who are turning out en masse every Friday to stop nuclear reactors in Japan.
If you want to start a group in your area, email me – cwolman@mcn.org
Peace, Carol Wolman
John Steiner: September 4-Week Online Conference, City 2.0 Expo
Access, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Culture, Knowledge, P2P / PanarchyFYI and do share. Many bows to Marilyn.
From: Marilyn Hamilton
Dear friend,
I have big news to share! After months of hard work (well, more like decades actually), I am excited to announce a whole new phase of our Integral City work! This September I will be hosting an online conference called the City 2.0 that will bring together 50 visionaries and hundreds of representatives from cities from around the world. And I want to invite you to join me!
www.integralcitycollective.com
As you know, for years I have been writing, teaching, blogging and preparing for new ways to answer the challenges that city stakeholders face—and we are all stakeholders in our planet’s cities. This September’s conference is the biggest thing to happen in my work since the publication of my book: Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences in the Human Hive. My colleague Dr. Don Beck remarked that “Marilyn’s two decades of work has created a compelling and important integral and holistic package designed to deal with the unique problems that confront cities”. And it is that design that I want to co-create with you and other citi-zens from around the world. So we've created the conference to allow people worldwide to participate via web and phone or Skype.
The City 2.0 Expo is a 4-week online conference where we will combine our collective best thinking to envision the future of the city and begin to make plans to build it and make it real. As someone who has been following my work (and my blog), I'm imagining you are the perfect person to join us. Don and I will be joined by 50 other authors, experts, and leaders including: Buzz Holling, Bill Rees, Hazel Henderson, Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Barrett Brown, Jean Houston and many more. Will you come and help me help the emergence of the dream of Integral City in a global community of practice? Just click the link below to find out more or join the conference.
www.integralcitycollective.com
I am so looking forward to connecting with you at this event!
Meshful blessings,
Marilyn
P.S. Please think about who else in your network would be interested in this. We are always asking “Who else should be here?”
Berto Jongman: Lisa Stamnitzky on Terrorism Research — Neither Scientific nor Legitimate
Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Disciplining an Unruly Field: Terrorism Experts and Theories of Scientific/Intellectual Production
Lisa Stampnitzky
Qual Sociol DOI 10.1007/s11133-010-9187-4
Abstract
“Terrorism” has proved to be a highly problematic object of expertise. Terrorism studies fails to conform to the most common sociological notions of what a field of intellectual production ought to look like, and has been described by participants and observers alike as a failure. Yet the study of terrorism is a booming field, whether measured in terms of funding, publications, or numbers of aspiring experts. This paper aims to explain, first, the disjuncture between terrorism studies in practice and the sociological literature on fields of intellectual production, and, second, the reasons for experts’ “rhetoric of failure” about their field. I suggest that terrorism studies, rather than conforming to the notion of an ideal-typical profession, discipline, or bounded “intellectual field,” instead represents an interstitial space of knowledge production. I further argue that the “rhetoric of failure” can be understood as a strategy through which terrorism researchers mobilize sociological theories of scientific/cultural fields as both an interpretive resource in their attempts to make sense of the apparent oddness of their field and their situation, and as schemas, or models, in their attempts to reshape the field. I conclude that sociologists ought to expand our vision to incorporate the many arenas of expertise that occupy interstitial spaces, moving and travelling between multiple fields.
Keywords Terrorism . Experts . Knowledge . Boundary work
Tom Atlee: Conflict and How Gifts of Conversation Can Help
Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Conflict and the varied gifts of powerful conversation
The power of conversation is real but not total.
People sometimes take an oversimplified perspective of the power of dialogue, deliberation, and choice-creating to deal with tensions between people. EIther they think “just talk” can't do much to resolve serious conflicts or they think talking can resolve any and every conflict. I think both perspectives fail to appreciate the specific gifts powerful conversation brings to the table in times of conflict.
I'll share here how I think about these potential gifts. It is important to keep in mind that they all depend on the choice and quality of the conversational processes used.
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