A “Commons“ ….Is a place, where An organic culture defines and makes its home as its defensible and public space for its communities of participants serving as a “hive” for its internal relationships usually as inclusive and equitable interconnections (everyone to everyone) serving as a “hub” for its external relationships with its local niche of ecological partners … Continue reading A “Commons“ is…
How Natural Systems Work… is by forming processes that produce a profit, used to grow it, in a burst of creative self-organization, to become sustainable ONLY IF the profits that built it get used to maintain what was built; the essential road map. That general model of nature’s “facts of life” is your “quick start”. … Continue reading Finding Organization in Natural Systems – “Quick Start”
Report I. (below) 18 June – Comment to UN organizers of Final Report on MDG’s in dialog with Major Groups – MDG solutions are not designed to hold, because the goals were defined as performance metrics not cultural growth and development. JLH Report II. (above) Comment to UN President, Member State Delegates and UN SDG … Continue reading UN Development Goals… leave out Common Needs
The following list of 12 principles of ecological thinking seemed missing from consideration in the comments of UN member nation delegates and others at recent meetings led by the UN, in its major effort obtain a consensus on sustainable development goals (SDG’s) for 1) eliminating widespread poverty, 2) responding to climate change and 3) maintaining steady economic growth for … Continue reading Missing Principles of Ecological Thinking – in plans for the Earth
This Mar 2013 proposed “Ideal Model” for steering the economy toward making us a good home on earth led to a Feb 2014 proposal for implementing it, a World SDG . It’s a global application of the general principle, that we all are responsible for our shares of the abuses of the economy as a whole … in … Continue reading the “Ideal Model” – SD Goals & World Commons Economy
First (V.) is Helene’s response, to (IV.) my observations on the dilemma of “defining reality”, that doing so presents “reality” is represented as decided in our brains! Natural reality is precisely the opposite, of course, everything NOT defined in our brains. Yet… the epistemologists keep winning the dumb argument anyway… even though the true answer … Continue reading Your Ontology getting lost in Epistemology??
Responding to questions for UN Post2015 Sustainability Consultation with NGO’s Week 2: Development Challenges in a Changing World (11 Feb- 17 Feb) on the UN http://www.worldwewant2015.org website _____________ 1. Which global trends and uncertainties may influence how environmental sustainability is framed in the international development agenda over the next 10-30 years? There’s a major global shift … Continue reading Post 2015 UN Sustainable Development Strategy
There are a great variety of reasons to organize people Sometimes it’s to discover something or to accomplish something Sometimes it’s to connect people who share their views Sometimes for people who share a common world from different views… (but have remarkably different talents and views) If you know of good examples or methods not … Continue reading Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
It’s making business choices by computer that caused the rapid shift of earnings away from wages, toward profits, in three big ways, explaining the massive shift seen in the data. ———— • ———— See also: Robert Reich Feb 4 2015 article in Salon: How even the “sharing economy” profits computers and sends labor backwards and my long comment It’s computers programmed to … Continue reading Computers taking over our jobs and our pay?
To open a LinkedIn community discussion in “Systems Thinking World”, on the “whole systems approach” and scientific method I use, for discovering and understanding natural systems, I offered the following lead-in Related theory pages: 1 Natural Pattern Languages, 2 ‘Big Data’ and the right to human understanding, 3 Global accounting of responsibilities for economic impacts, 4 Missing Principles of Ecological Thinking – in plans for the … Continue reading Natural Whole Systems Thinking – philosophy & method on STW