The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
31st October 2009 | Draft
Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action
constraints on ensuring a safe operating space for humanity
Planetary boundaries of the environmental system
Necessity for urgent action, globally, regionally and locally
Global remedial action boundaries
Substantiating the remedial capacity boundaries
Polyocular strategic vision
Systemic isomorphism
Representation of boundaries of coherence of complex systems
In quest of systemic functional connectivity
Public Administration Theory Network 2013: Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals: “Governance and the Utopian Imagination” – Public Administration Theory Network
This year's meeting of the Public Administration Theory Network (PAT-Net) seeks to re-engage “the utopian imagination” and invites contributions from across the social sciences, humanities, and fields of professional and community practice that critically explore the intersection of contemporary governance, utopia, and the human impulse to make better worlds.
*About the Public Administration Theory Network*****
The Public Administration Theory Network (PAT-Net) is an international network of professionals concerned with the advancement of public administration theory. The Network was formed in 1978 by a group of scholars who were seeking an alternative venue to develop and talk about public administration theory.
*Administrative Theory & Praxis* is the official peer-reviewed journal of PAT-Net. For more information on PAT-Net and past conferences, and the upcoming conference visit www.patheory.net
*26th Annual Conference
*Pre-Conference Workshop*****
*San Francisco, CA*****
*May 30-31, June 1-2, 2013*****
*Proposal** Deadline: November 15, 2012*****
*Hosted by University of San Francisco + California State University-East Bay
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
Convergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends
Mapping the social climate change engendering a perfect storm
Introduction
Checklist of 30 disabling trends
Spiraling trends: cyclones in a climate of change?
Interweaving “cyclones” and “anti-cyclones” in a global system
Emergent polyhedral configuration of alternating systemic functions
Insights from the Conference of the Birds?
Conclusion
References
See Also:
Anthony Judge: 30 Disabling Global Trends (Checklist)
Full Text with Two Graphics and Many Links Below the Line
Continue reading “Anthony Judge: Laetus in Praesens – Convergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends”
FYI 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?”
Inside the Reddit AMA: The Interview Revolution That Has Everyone Talking
It’s the new “Colbert Bump.” The new “Inside the Actor’s Studio.” Possibly even up and coming replacement for oft-sought Rolling Stone cover/interview.
Reddit Sticker (Photo credit: cambodia4kidsorg)
I’m talking about the Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything).
EXTRACT
Note to celebrities: Redditors (and the world, frankly) don’t care about the things you are plugging. They are interested in the opportunity to interact with you, the person. If you provide interesting answers to other questions, whatever your plug may be will be warmly accepted. Promote yourself authentically and openly first and then Reddit will find your projects the same. Just ask Louis CK and his $1 millon. Give and you may receive.
Continue reading “Yoda: Understanding & Appreciating Reddit”
Your Aide Memoire came to my attention today. Apart from wishing you every success, I thought to contribute a few ideas.
01 The new meme that has replaced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — I taught this to 90 countries including all NATO/PfP and six UN missions in Lebanon — is M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making).
02 Government is the least important of the eight communities (I used to call them tribes) of information and intelligence (decision-support). The eight communities in alphabetic order are academia, civil society including labor unions and religions, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non
03 Governments have failed to be relevant or progressive for two reasons: first, they confuse intelligence (decision support or the outcomes) with secrecy (the method or inputs); and second, most government do not actually make evidence-based decisions, but rather decisions of convenience driven mostly by a mix of ideology and corruption–decisions that favor the special interests of the few against the public interest of the many.
Continue reading “Reflections on United Nations Intelligence & Counterintelligence”
