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The city as antagonist

In our city life, is the city the antagonist or citizens? It’s hard to say.  Consider this passage from Lynn Coady’s The Antagonist (p. 234-5): I am starting to view my past in a different way these...

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Purpose of evolution is evolving

  If the work we do creates our cities, and if, as individuals, we lose our sense of purpose in our work, so do our cities.  If we lose track of where we are going, then the very cities we build that...

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City purpose – survival and improvement

  In my last post, the purpose of evolution is evolving, I introduced the work of Steve McIntosh and his book, Evolution’s Purpose.  There is another layer of insight from McIntosh that frames the...

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Instrumental and intrinsic purposes

  The evolutionary pattern of wholes, or holons, is helpful to understand purpose at scale. To explore this, I draw on the work Arthur Koestler, Ken Wilber and Steve McIntosh, who articulate the...

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Be an evolutionary agent

  “You become the evolutionary agent.” These words of Andrew Cohen, in Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening, jumped out at me last week. I realized that the chapter title I...

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Be a conscious citizen

  A few years ago, a friend told me that the world is run by those who show up. I’ve wondered since, are cities run by those who show up? Cities are made by citizens, so all of us who live in and...

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Prototype social habitats

  As I prepare to host friends new and old at the November 12-15, 2013 Art of Hosting BIG Decisions gathering, I have engaged in a learning experience with my co-hosts, and a few others, to explore...

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Do it all, all at once

  Do it all, all at once, as appropriate. That is what is necessary to engage a whole system. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer, in their work Leading from the Emerging Future, describe four levels of...

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City evolution inside and outside

  ‘Think about it. We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive too.’ And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the...

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Sovereignty is necessarily disruptive

I watched two men well into their 60s get into a physical fight at the ski hill yesterday. I’d taken a break to sit in the sunshine and give my knee a moment to tell me if skiing was a good or bad...

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