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Leave a commentCompetition for Co-Evolution
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I’ve been sitting with a story I just heard relayed by Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris, systems and evolutionary biologist. (If you are interested in a great and uplifting podcast, check out the full interview, entitled “From Caterpillars to Butterflies.”)
Dr. Sahtouris was attending a basketball game in China and was seated next to a Chinese man who cheered wildly after the first basket of the game was scored. When the other team scored its first basket, he cheered with equal enthusiasm. He continued to do this for each basket scored by either team. Finally, Dr. Sahtouris turned to the man and asked, “Which team is yours?” The man replied, “What do you mean?” Dr. Sahtouris said, “Well, which team do you want to win?” He replied, “What difference does it make?” To which she replied, “Well, why are you pitting two teams against one another?” He responded, “To drive excellence. We applaud the excellence wherever it happens.”
Same game, different frame . . .
Discernment
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Believe in Yourself
Leave a commentBucky’s Living Legacy
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo.
Leave a commentBucky's Living Legacy
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo.
1 CommentOrganization vs. movement vs. philosophy
Seth Godin is a luminary of the new paradigm, it is often tempting to re-blog him here, this time it was inevitable. If we want to build movement we must transcend our organizational constraints.
1 CommentLife, the Universe, and Awe
“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life . . . “
Albert Schweitzer
The Known Universe from AMNH on Vimeo.
One year ago I blogged about my experience in the GeoDome, “a portable immersive environment” that allows participants to experience interactive simulations derived from scientific data provided by the likes of NASA and NOAA. Think of it as a traveling planetarium that provides tours of our planet, solar system, and/or the universe through the lens of different observable phenomena – electromagnetic radiation, population growth, plane travel, etc. The purpose of the GeoDome is to provide visceral ways for people to experience shifts of perspective that might support their efforts in embracing and promoting more sustainable behaviors.
Given this anniversary, it is quite appropriate that the video above come to my attention. Read More
Leave a commentWe Are a Part of Each Other
“We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other — male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other.”
Leave a commentLove vs. Sentimentality
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“To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.”
Leave a commentSung from the Soul
“I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people”.- Maya Angelou, 1984
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