The Growing Effort to Decouple GDP from Energy use and CO2,is having no apparent effect,raising serious questions about the nature of our plan. The graph below (Figure 1) shows the 46-year record of world GDP PPP, Energy, and CO2, during which their growth rates have been in constant proportion to each other, called their “coupling.” … Continue reading Evidence of Decoupling Still Zero.
Setting Our Whole system goal, Making the Earth our good home. Much of my effort over the past five years fosuces on working with civil society organizations at the UN on the world sustainable development goals (SDG’s). This year, needing to take care of other business, I’m sitting out. It may be ironic, of course, … Continue reading UN SDG’s and HLPF – the whole-system thinking needed
The discussion of the UN’s Sustainable development Goals (SDG’s) focuses on the poor, and “Leaving No One Behind”. That overlooks that it’s most often the growth of the world economy that made older parts of the economy outmoded, and leaving whole communities behind as the world economy moves on to what’s more profitable. This discussion … Continue reading Regions Left Behind
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 … Continue reading Guiding Innovative Change – Holistic applications of the SDGs
Working with BigData, especially learning how to read the designs and behavioral patterns of the earth’s natural systems, its living cultures of all kinds, and to sense our roles in them, opens up a tremendous new field of understanding. It of course also opens up very new kinds of perspectives to puzzle over, both offering to show us new paths … Continue reading 16 Tweets on Reading #BigData for Life
ed note: The current discussion of the core dilemma of capitalism, as a limitless system for creating growing wealth, is in terms of the crises we now face caused by it, producing socially disruptive innovation and growing financial inequity. Those include 1) threats of rapidly growing social inequity, 2) unsustainable national and private debt, … Continue reading Did Keynes & Boulding both really say that?
A pattern language nugget, prompted by a Brittney Lee Wagoner tweet about a World Mysteries Blog post on “Nature, Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio”: Tweet by Brittney Wagner @k33pin9itreal: Can sacred geometry give insight to homeostasis? “Nature, Fibonacci Numbers & Golden Ratio” http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/nature-fibonacci-numbers-and-the-golden-ratio/ … Who liked my Tweeted replies @shoudaknown Nature seems to wander near the path the equation idealizes, within a … Continue reading A nice way to Link Math & Nature
This is a good introductory description, excerpted from an email, w/ a little edit. The abstract and link are for a paper on “Guiding Patterns of Natural Design:Mining Living Quality” for an upcoming Pattern Language of Programming conference. Oh, it’s sort of magic.. the hope of course: is that this emergence of a sound new … Continue reading So What’s Pattern Language? Mining design patterns from nature.
Creating a Commons takes thought leadership, and Thought Leadership takes midcourse corrections One thing “thought leaders” need to be aware of is that “leading” always requires mid-course corrections. Any start-up organization that sticks with growth as its plan and doesn’t switch to a goal for fulfillment has a default plan for destabilizing excesses in what … Continue reading The Image of the Commons… as Fulfillment
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 … Continue reading Natural Pattern Languages