The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Six faces of wholeness I offer here a framework for understanding what I might call “big” wholeness – a sensibility I have about wholeness that I can never articulate but which continually demands that I try. This framework attempts to embrace the manifestations of that inarticulable “wholeness” that I find myself sensing into and out …
The Greatest Dialogue and Deliberation Resource Center Dear friends, Many of you already know about the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD). But I’ll bet most of you have not checked out NCDD’s incredible (as in unbelievably gigantic and useful) online Resource Center. It is my own first stop when I’m looking for a …
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EMERGING ECONOMICS #1 DIY “MAKERS” AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES by Tom Atlee 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 (especially peak oil and loss of fresh water and topsoil) to climate change, with …
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Consensus: Manipulation or Magic? 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 thought. – Karl Ohs, late Montana Lieutenant Governor and chair of the Montana Republican Party 2005-2006 Social …
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Dear friends, 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 Callenbach’s overall vision of what might be possible. ECOTOPIA EMERGING – with far better characterization and more compelling plot – tells the story …
Wholesome capitalism? 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 of people and the social and natural world we live in, and it would enhance that wholeness. Some people think capitalism already does this. They …
A New Co-Intelligence Initiative: Let’s Talk: Our New Economy 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 in today’s rough economy – and then to expand the conversation to include how …
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