Wholes and parts in unaccustomed partnership
It’s hard to make a mass movement out of working with others you didn’t invite to share your environment, but it’s a mass happening on earth these days. The famous “tragedy of the commons” is about...
View ArticleReview of Science for UN’s SDG’s
A brief report and links to presentations for the Mar 20, 21 Science meeting at the UN There was an Expert Group Meeting on Science and Sustainable Development Goals at the UN last Wed & Thurs....
View Article“Ideal Model” SD Goals & World Commons Economy
This “Ideal Model” is a concept being considered by CAUN and the NGO Commons Cluster. It’s “a big idea”, with lots of emergent possibilities, basically asking how might the world work if economic...
View Article“Active Learning” more than goals… For SDG’s we need to Rethink
This is a copy of a requested comment on the UN NGO Major Group’s recommendations for the UN Post2015 Sustainable development goals, being developed by the UN Open Working Group (OWG) of member country...
View ArticleGrowth lifting all boats, no longer
Post to UN NGO thematic consultation on: Environmental Sustainability and Equality Why growth is now driving inequity, not the reverse A popular but mistaken idea is that what is needed to relieve...
View ArticleMissing Principles of Ecological Thinking – in plans for the Earth
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...
View ArticleWhole Culture Led not Technology Driven – getting SDG’s to really work
The UN’s idea of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), as a “unified policy framework”, and seemingly everyone else’s too, turn out to be “missing something”, Missing the glue that fits and holds the...
View Articlea Care Giving Purpose – a neglected constituency
A three minute message originally for the UN, Caregiving Purposes (YouTube video) As a way of life no one would make a practice of consuming ever more of their neighbor’s resources. If we just pay...
View ArticleUN Development Goals… leave out The Commons
Comment to UN President, Member State Delegates and UN SDG agencies, on the UN Sustainable Development Goal Progress Reports of UN Agency and Stakeholder Groups: UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons,...
View ArticleTricky Reading – the System and the Indicator
From a conversation on the Commons Abundance Network. Of course I agree a lot is solved by having it clear what you are using the word “growth” to refer to. But it’s easier to figure out we...
View ArticleA 3Step process for Working With Nature
The UN’s civil society “Major Groups” have been invited to suggest new ways for the UN community to discuss Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) for the earth, to address the planetary development...
View ArticleThe false duality of mind & nature
Tweets from Shoudaknown 7/17/13 1 The false duality of mind & nature is clear, in how events for each begin with bursts of self-organization and energy use, “eventfully”. ;-) 2 More...
View ArticleNatural Systems Science – “Quick Start”
Well… maybe not a”quick read” except in being “brief”, as it’s a very carefully worded short intro to the scientific viewpoints used to identify and then start to understand the “living systems” that...
View ArticleHay… We finally made the move !
This NY blog is real glad the WordPress tools are so portable!! We moved from servers in the Mid-West to ones in Virginia today! I have more to say than time to write, and another website to...
View ArticleA “Commons“ is…
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...
View ArticleA Hestian Map – the sacred hearth not at home in an authoritarian world
I’ve been having a very exciting time discovering and building on the many connections between my scientific method for studying the development and organization of Natural Systems, and the wonderfully...
View ArticleIn two words… what defines “science”?
It’s “asking questions”, of course ( silly! ;-). Science is also about asking particular kinds of questions, so you’d be missing a lot if you didn’t also ask “What kinds of questions is that?”… and...
View ArticleLocal views of global systems – big errors in “energy for all”
This post is for the UN’s OWG 5 proceedings next week, on Post2015 energy development positions. The global data is very clear, increasing GDP always requires proportionally related increases in energy...
View ArticleMore competition now isn’t “homemaking”, it’s fighting over shrinking pies.
This post is for the UN’s OWG 5 proceedings next week, on Post2015 Macro Economic development positions. ____________ As a young systems scientist many years ago I noticed a need for a better type of...
View ArticleNatural Systems.. meet many worlds of Cultural Reality
I got a strong “like” from Mark Stahlman to my comment on Real-World Economic Review - issue no. 65. that led to A great longer discussion on the Cultural Anthropology of Knowledge on Open Anthropology...
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