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
This post is a section of my report titled “Approaching 30 days from the 40th Anniversary” on attending the quite exciting 2012 40th Anniversary meeting on the Meadows and Randers authored Club of Rome “Limits to Growth” study. The excerpt is on the deep reasons why the science, as solid as it still seems … Continue reading Can science learn to read “pattern language”…?
…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 … Continue reading Kepler
A wide and welcome discussion of our economy’s tendency to produce increasing “inequity” has followed the US publication of Thomas Piketty’s book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, and offered me many chances to comment for general readers with interest in the deeper scientific questions. I think my best so far were my most recent two, for the special issue of the AAAS … Continue reading a Whole Systems view – Piketty’s “r > g”
I had found a cozy place to work on sustainability from inside the UN, but discovered the words holding the discussion together there had accumulated meanings that were deeply dishonest… so I’m back on the outside. ___________ Over the past year I developed two rather wonderful scientific learning methods, as if school courses in “Niche … Continue reading No need to take off our clothes in public… but dropping our ideological fig leaves at times seems required.
______________________ Offering a true measure of economic sustainability,internalizing the costs of externalities caused by delivering world GDP,initially using shares of GDP to measure shares of GDP impact responsibility;potentially making the world economy 100% accountable. It’s the “right way to make money”,taking responsibility for the true shares of our costs to the future. Investing and doing business in the … Continue reading A World SDG – global accounting of responsibilities for economic impacts
This journal entry if for the preliminary presentation of The World SDG to the UN’s Open Working Group on the SDG’s. See also the final World SDG proposal on the global application of the general principle, that we all are responsible for our shares of the abuses of the economy as a whole … in proportion to our … Continue reading A World SDG: A Sustainable Earth Footprint, and way to thoughtfully manage global systems
Prepared for UN Open Working Group on SDG’s, OWG-5, 6 in Dec 2013 Owg 7,8 in Jan & Feb 2014, solving the special “steering problems” raised there as well with: Time for Sustainable Cities to Look Upstream… and Getting the incentives right requires redefining the units of measure This is a serious effort to describe in … Continue reading Ideal Model: New Architecture for Economic Self-Governance
Last week was unusually successful for me at the UN, or felt that way. The increasing openness of the process, and my good luck in finding socially acceptable ways to stay it, both helped me. So I was able to bring small flashes of light to the deeper kinds of issues about “What to Do … Continue reading UN OWG-5 statements – SDG’s missing some signals