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The Protests and the Metamovement - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
The Metamovement is a movement of movements. Not all these movements are similar, and no two are exactly like. The Arab Spring is part of the Metamovement; the London Riots were part of the Metamovement; India's nationwide anti-corruption protests were part of the Metamovement, just like Israel's massive demonstrations were; protests spreading across America, under the banner of Occupy Wall Street, are all part of the Metamovement. Where did this virus erupt? The simplest answer is: in Sidi Bouzid, where Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in protest.
How to convey the essence of sustainability in a few sketched lines? I’m wading through the net and my bookshelves to find examples of the genre. I’m looking for schematics of the notion of sustainability itself rather than the underlying science – greenhouse, carbon, meso climate process , ground water , etc for which there are a zillion diagrams. The list is not meant to be exhaustive, but if I’ve missed your favourite diagram, leave a link and I’ll add it to the list. Many of these images are duplicated all over the web, I’ve tried to find original sources (try tineye , is really cool), but again, let me know if I’ve missed something.
Visualising sustainability « Computing for Sustainability
Resilience Alliance - Panarchy
See below to download Chapter 1 of the book "Panarchy: Understanding transformations in Human and Natural Systems". The purpose for writing the book "Panarchy" was to develop an integrative theory to help us understand the source and role of change in systems- particularly kinds of changes that are transforming and take place in systems that are adaptive. Such changes comprise economic, ecological, and social systems, and they are evolutionary. They concern rapidly unfolding processes and slowly changing ones; gradual change and episodic change; and they take place and interact at many scales from local to global.
The first requirement when governments need to consolidate control is to prevent horizontal peer-to-peer communication. To this end, the first tactic is to suspend the right of “freedom of assembly” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly ).
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Handprints to panarchy: 20 more sustainability diagrams « Computing for Sustainability
Diverse lot to add to the collection this time – from the very simple (how did I miss the balance images so far?) to those representing complex philosophical arguments. The handprint – as a complement to the footprint – is an extremely elegant way to describe the “doing good” or “restorative sustainability”. 171. Self-organising holarchic eco-social systems ( Waltner-Toews , see also scale effects ). 175.
Our Panarchic Future | Worldwatch Institute
A theory that explains the evolution of ecosystems may apply to civilizations as well-and it says we're approaching a critical phase. [Editor's note: The following article is adapted from The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon (copyright © Resource & Conflict Analysis, Inc.) and printed by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. (www.islandpress.org).] Buzz Holling, one of the world's great ecologists, is a kind and gracious man, with a shock of white hair and a warm smile. Born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, he worked for many years as a research scientist for the government of Canada, where he pioneered the study of budworm infestations in the great spruce forests of New Brunswick.Selected Web Page: Gary Chartier, The market as the antidote to capitalism (An interesting article advocating the distinction between market as free commerce and market as financial casino) Selected Website: Changing Education Paradigms (You Tube) - Beautiful graphic presentation from a talk given at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) by Sir Ken Robinson
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Category:Panarchy - P2P Foundation
From P2P Foundation The discussion of panarchy herein will be embryonic in nature. I will begin with the complete shape, but only in the simplest of forms. As I add more material, the overall structure will become more developed and clarified, but all of the essentials will have been laid out in the beginning. Panarchy is a transdisciplinary investigation into the political and cultural philosophy of "network culture." The primary fields of relevance for panarchy are world politics (international relations), political philosophy/theory, and information technology.Panarchy is a conceptual term first coined by the Belgian botanist and economist Paul Emile de Puydt in 1860, referring to a specific form of governance ( -archy ) that would encompass ( pan- ) all others. [ 1 ] The Oxford English Dictionary lists the noun as "chiefly poetic" with the meaning "a universal realm," citing a 1848 attestation by Philip James Bailey , "the starry panarchy of space". The adjective panarchic "all-ruling" has earlier attestations. [ 2 ] In the twentieth century the term was re-coined separately by scholars in international relations to describe the notion of global governance and then by systems theorists to describe non-hierarchical organizing theories. [ edit ] Panarchy as freely choosing government
