This post is for the UN’s OWG 5 proceedings next week, on Post2015 Macro Economic development positions. It led to the OWG 8 proposal “A World SDG“, introducing an integrated true scientific measure of sustainability… It’s now followed with “The Decoupling Puzzle – a partial answer” , on measuring our “decoupling rate”, and the development space reserved within planetary boundaries, such … Continue reading Nature’s Capitalism: “Homemaking” now, not competition over shrinking pies!→
I’ve been having a very exciting time discovering and building on the many connections between my scientific method for studying the development and organization of Natural Systems, and the wonderfully radical scientific feminism of Pat Thompson’s “Hestian Home Economics” (1,2,3). They both center on what is at the heart of the liveliness of natural … Continue reading A Hestian Map – the sacred hearth not at home in an authoritarian world→
Whole Civilization Growth-to-Collapse Decoded Greetings everyone, I’m Jessie Lydia Henshaw, a New York senior physicist, architect & natural systems scientist, member of ISSS for decades, and long-time close observer of the amazing change-of-life our civilization is now in. This is about our recurring growth-to-collapse of Western Civilizations, Babel, the Mediterranian Bronze Age, Classical Greece, Rome, … Continue reading A New Language of History For Meeting Humanity’s Greatest Challenges→
AND…Tips on how vigorous growth systems turn from multiplying to conserving their designs and places in the world around them. The Bronze Age Collapse… Spiteful Grievances and System Betrayals arise from aggressive growth and severe natural limits – creating conflict and confusion and societal loss of meaning. Then and now! These are seen in the … Continue reading Spiteful Grievances Broke The Bronze Age→
and for the use of one’s podium Jessie Lydia Henshaw Please quote with credit and a link to this pageCC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license 4.0 Below are three short pieces I. WHAT WE TOTALLY MISSED II. THE SYSTEMS THINKING WE ALREADY KNOW III. THE MEANING OF OUR OLDEST DREAMThey’re to help our enormous audience … Continue reading Pathways to our whole system change→
… There are so many signs… It’s something everyone should be asking by now. Everyone’s experience of accelerating change is indeed unprecedented, except during periods of dramatic historical change, notably marked by an absence of vision for where we’re going, so many kinds of change seem clearly irregular. I grew up in an exceptionally peaceful … Continue reading Something new and unexpected taking over?→
Ideally, we should talk. I’m an accomplished senior natural systems scientist who has been decoding the “weirdness” of our world’s suicidal head-on, breakneck accelerating collision with the natural world for 40+ years. I began as a physicist, and when I discovered that physics has no explanation for organization, or particularly how organizations begin and end, … Continue reading Our Wonderous Shortcuts to Limitless Power→
I’ve enjoyed the previously marvelous etymonlin.com etymology dictionary and the also marvelous word patterns site, Onelook.com, for years. They worked great together to explore the meaning of the repeated structures of words and how words with one, two, three, four, five, or five-syllables are assembled as very lean geometries for adding the many particular nuances … Continue reading Sad changes at Etymonline.com→
It’s both sad and marvelous to now be reading the clear signs that science has become so misguided that only a scientific revolution will keep it from destroying all of what science built. Science has indeed shown us the great beauty of nature and our lives, given us marvelous tools for self-expression, and then also … Continue reading Why did science become myopic and now unable to guide our future?→
A Plan to Change Plans Nature’s path for thriving new lives starts with a long burst of extractive growth, but then changes to become self-healing. Our economic growth started that way all growth processes do, but then we overdid it, a fatal pattern advanced human economies since the late Bronze Age, that has now become … Continue reading the Natural Growth Path→
New systems science, how to care for natural uncontrolled systems in context
