Review: Ecological Intelligence–How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Hardcover)

From 4 to Five for Gifted Story and Amazon Price Cut November 29, 2009 Daniel Goleman I chose this book over Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature and seeing the author’s note about this other book “by a physician, Jungian analyst, and poet” am certain I made the right choice. The author’s “big idea” is …

2009 Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth

Earth is at a tipping point. Changes to the planet that used to take 10,000 years now take three.  This means that both real-time science and real-time policy and decision-making will be the non-negotiable essence of success in the 21st Century. Near-Earth Objects (NEO) are a more immediate threat than climate change; energy from geothermal, …

Journal: Spinney, Boyd, Green, Kuhn on “Can America Be Salvaged?–Public Intelligence Aspects”

This lengthy piece is organized as follows: 1)  Chuck Spinney on how our partisan “leaders” are disconnected from reality and leading us over a cliff, with reference to John Boyd. 2.  An extract and link to the always brilliant CounterPunch where David Michael Green discusses the core issue: Can America be salvaged? 3.  A Phi …

Journal: MILNET Flags Sorting It Out: New Tools Wrestle Mountains of Data Into Usable Intelligence

August 24, 2009 Pg. 11 By Kris Osborn In 2008, U.S. military forces collected 400,000 hours of airborne surveillance video, up from several thousand hours 10 years ago. So the Pentagon is turning to computers to help save, sort and search it all. “The proliferation of unmanned systems across the battlefield is not going to …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Craig Hamilton

Craig Hamilton and Claire Zammit are writers, educators, and strategic consultants. They work with organizations applying their principles of evolutionary culture, creating life-enhancing, growth-oriented workplaces, and achieving the adaptability and resilience that comes from paying careful attention to the collaborative environment.  Craig Hamilton’s original home page (different from link embedded in photograph above: www.collective-intelligence.us. Thinking …

2003: Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0 (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0[i] Robert David Steele Ben de Jong, Wies Platje, and Robert David Steele, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future (OSS International Press, 2003), pp. 201-225. Original As Published Executive Summary The Brahimi Report, in combination with documented field experience from numerous UN peacekeeping missions, and the memoirs and published statements …