In 2018, Jem Bendell, a sustainability leadership professor, wrote a paper that took the possibility of near-term societal collapse due to climate change extremely seriously (you can read the whole thing here). I would like to spend a little bit of time on this paper because it was the theoretical basis for one of the multiple-choice […]
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My Zoom course on post-progressive politics is going well. We have over 40 great participants and folks seem to be enjoying it so far. All 9 weeks of the course will be available on video in late April. Thanks to The Aligned Center for producing the course. Here is their description: Hyperpolarization in American politics
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Joining the Cynefin Centre in last November felt serendipitous in many ways. I felt that the focus of the Centre tied together so many of my interests that had been culminating over the last few years. With The Cynefin Centre, I’m writing a white paper about the vector theory of change which draws on
Introduction to Linda Read More »
Yesterday I raised the question of boundary conditions that will arise with our shift to an open-source, wiki-driven approach to methods and also concepts. In effect it is a problem of constraints: over constrain the system and there is insufficient diversity for growth and widespread adoption, ignore the need for constraints and you loose all
Well, first of all, he would have said it in German, and since I don’t write German well, what Schiller would have said exactly will not appear here. Second, I do not know, of course, what he would have said, but here is a qualified guess: NO! No-no-no-no-no-NOOOO!!!! (OK, I could have written that in
What would Schiller have said about the January 6 insurrection? Read More »
It has been a curious, if interesting week with a more or less perfect ending this afternoon. It has however been busy and I’ve clocked up some very long days starting before 0600 and rarely finishing before 2000. the reason is the series of sprints that we initiated to get the wiki populated on core
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Nordic Bildung is getting a new website!
Hello world! We have a new website! Read More »
As always, let’s start with one of the high-level patterns in our collection: the sources of knowledge or awareness in the actions or stories shared. The largest cluster of stories is at the top of the triad, showing that in most stories, knowledge came from social or mass media, with a secondary group at the
Since our last post, Steve McIntosh and Jeff Salzman have participated in three Post-Progressive Inquiries on the Daily Evolver Podcast. Post-Progressive Inquiries are conversations exploring how post-progressivism’s emerging cultural and political perspective can honor and synthesize the best aspects of America’s three major worldviews: modernism, traditionalism, and progressivism. It is our hope that these conversations,
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The Long Now Foundation · Peter Leyden – The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050 A compelling case can be made that we are in the early stages of another tech and economic boom in the next 30 years that will help solve our era’s biggest challenges like climate change,
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