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    Archive for July, 2010



    Why “tech. fixes” make such excellent “tech. failures”

    Published on July 22, 2010

    A friend in an environmental discussion group proposed his favorite list of hopeful, but quite unproven technology solutions for the energy crisis, making the usual false assumption that the problem is a lack of energy resources. That causes the further error of not considering what consequences the solution would have… if it worked.
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    ?Ecosystem decline and financial risk… What’s next?

    Published on July 14, 2010

    The question was asked by Sue Charman on the UK Finance Lab, How do we start predicting ecosystem decline and if business is capable of changing?
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    Well, one way is to begin to use more scientific ways to measure the net effect of things. There are some rather major problems with “sustainability arithmetic” you might call […]


    Group learning and the evolutionary clicks of energy in time…

    Published on July 13, 2010

    I was pointed to Michael Herman’s Open Space World, and his introduction to his Open Space group learning methods. We exchanged a couple emails and it occurred to me there’s a simple way to combine his and my learning process models, his using the four organizational dimensions of purposes, actions, stories & structures and mine […]


    Immersing ourselves in true religion, nature’s physical intelligence?

    Published on July 10, 2010

    Geo Mobus’ post on his blog “Question Everything”, on “Where is the Economy Going” left little to question but that the choices for the physical economic system we’ve called home for a couple centuries is either down or faster down. It does seem true enough, comparing the beliefs that led us to our present global […]


    Seed events, life propulsion, the dyad powering butterfly effects

    Published on July 9, 2010

    I had pointed my friend Steve Kurtz to my physics theorem, the Law of Continuity, showing why the conservation of energy implies physical systems need a “little push” from other events on a smaller scales of organization to begin or end. His good question gave me an opportunity to explain that, and a bit more […]