A tour of the evidence, from the 1780 origin of the greenhouse effect through its the major post-WWII acceleration A preprint of a pending journal article of the same name is here. It’s a fairly short but thorough study, a data story, using the climate science we all know, to trace how humans have long
Guiding Patterns of Naturally Occurring Design A new window on Pattern LanguagesA new window on the working design patterns of nature. 1st Release Oct 1 from Amazon and MoreBooks Blurb: The leading sciences offer a pattern language for nature in the form of interrelated mathematical equations. Scientifically undefined natural language remains needed for referring to
from a conversation on FB group Global Challenges Collaboration link to FB post No we shouldn’t condemn humankind for being out of control Sam Hahn April 23 at 11:05am We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are exploited for false and destructive purposes. – Albert Einstein Jessie
I’m pleased to announce long work now completed…. Apr 10 2018 a Springer journal, Systems Practice and Action Research, published: Systems Thinking for Systems Making: Joining systems of thought and action J L Henshaw [Springer PDF here or Author’s here] An exploration of what appears to be a new dimension and understanding of systems thinking; the stepwise
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Re: 18 – 21 Oct 2016 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (research ref’s at the bottom) Fourth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs SD indicators need one more, the World SDG so Innovators can design their goals in relation to the whole My comment is as an expert on both system design and natural science indicators, on how innovative organization
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Short version Voted a Top Comment on the Forbes article “The Stock Market And Bernie Sanders Agree — Break Up The Banks” , a more full story follows. The reality of the matter is as embarrassing as it could be. If you trace it all back to origins… it’s our very own greed causing the whole
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The traditional scientific method doesn’t fit our new information world very well, with the rapid emergence of so many new forms of knowledge communities, computational science and commerce, seeming to take over. They are also being built on a foundation of science with major problems unsolved, like an understanding of how complex systems emerge and become unstable. The Edge asked
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key organizational elements for the working relationships of complex systems ideas of complex relationships that fit the reality We care because of the new bridge it creates between human ideas and the working organization of complex working systems we make, use and need to respond to of all kinds, an emerging broad advance in understanding complex system organization design. The idea of pattern language, invented by Christopher
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…and the laws that move you from maximizing power to maximizing resilience. Like many young college women Kepler awoke that morning with other things on her mind than the project she had planned for the day. She had been dreaming about how she loved her drawers of personal things, in colorful piles, neatly rolled, in little bags
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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