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I’m glad you’re here.
We have
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work to do.
What if we actually aimed for thriving?
Too often, we accept busyness and productivity as their own reward. Or we’re afraid to be bold, so we aim for something less than thriving.
As a result, we’re falling dangerously short of thriving in our communities, in our organizations and in our own lives.
So, what if we recognized the characteristics of thriving living systems in our organizations and communities?
And what if that were somehow simple and useful, opening up new insights and suggesting new ways forward?
What if our most powerful role is to act as stewards of life’s processes, actively cultivating the fertile conditions for life to thrive?
And what if this helped us achieve all of our other objectives more effectively?
This is the most important work of our times.
This is the practice of thrivability.
Here’s how I can help.
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“We need to see ourselves more fully as active stewards of life’s unfolding process and as part of a larger living world.”
– The Age of Thrivability
A Living Systems Lens on Blockchain: The Promise and the Peril
I recently had my first encounter with an honest-to-goodness “blockchain bro” — a young white man enamored of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and eager to evangelize their potential to transform society. This was my chance to get a personalized tutorial in the...
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In Search of Sacred Ground: Regenerative Agriculture’s Lessons for the Whole of our Lives
Recently, I had the privilege of participating in the first Annual General Meeting of Regeneration Canada, an organization dedicated to growing the regenerative agriculture movement. It was a joy to be with such warm, passionate people and to learn about this...
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The Necessary Work of This Moment
It may feel that we are being divided and conquered — men against women, black against white, rich against poor, Muslim against Christian, and on and on. And that is certainly the intention of some in positions of power. But as we witness each other’s woundedness with...
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"The Hidden Treasure of Heroic Cause" - @thrivability https://t.co/FNECeV9iUa https://t.co/14OUNIBdjV
"Why Beating Authoritarianism Takes the One Thing Americans Might Not Have Anymore" - @umairh https://t.co/rgywRYPyQs https://t.co/mnQOjtwmiY
What if the goal of our organizations were to enrich life as fully as possible, creating ever more vibrancy and resilience? What if life were recognized as the true bottom line, with money simply a means to that end? https://t.co/5KkUEhZO03
"In the same way, fake news shows that Facebook didn’t get it quite right and had to fix the algorithm; we have to fix the algorithm that we’re using to manage our markets and our economy." - @timoreilly https://t.co/rgOWYgp6aN
"Generosity is not something you paste on at the end – generosity is something that is generative. Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity, not at the end." - @timoreilly
https://t.co/rgOWYgp6aN
"Generosity is not something you paste on at the end – generosity is something that is generative. Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity, not at the end."
"In the same way, fake news shows that Facebook didn’t get it quite right and had to fix the algorithm; we have to fix the algorithm that we’re using to manage our markets and our economy."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/22/tim-oreilly-interview-generosity-prosperity-jeff-bezos...
Tim O’Reilly: ‘Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity’
theguardian.com
The tech pioneer, CEO of publishing company O’Reilly Media, says his industry will fail unless the web giants start putting consumers ahead of shareholdersPaul Hawken is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist. President Bill Clinton called his Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (1999) one of the five most important books in the world today. Wrote Clinton: "Natural Capitalism basically proves beyond any argument that there are presently available technologies, and those just on the horizon, which will permit us to get richer by cleaning, not by spoiling, the environment."
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Hawken's many other books—Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming (2017), Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World (2007), and The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (1993)—all point in many ways to the same spirit: "This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system."
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#quotations #findtheoutside #systemschange #environmentalism
City as #SpaceforLife
Nature harmonizes opposing forces.
www.schumachercollege.org.uk/blog/natures-fragile-harmonies-by-stephan-harding
Nature's Fragile Harmonies by Stephan Harding
schumachercollege.org.uk
Here is the introduction to a chapter that Dr Stephan Harding from our Holistic Science faculty wrote for HRH Prince Charle's Harmony Project.
