https://youtu.be/oDErz5uPtCg Leadership for Learning (Video 5 minutes) Vigorous Learning Organizations are Key. A Vigorous Learning Organization is one base of the program of the Compression Institute. The other is Compression Thinking. A Vigorous Learning...
Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future, by Richard Norgaard This book was recommended by Craig Lindell, who is frequently on our teleconference calls. It turned out to be as good as Craig described. Richard Norgaard...
https://youtu.be/2tGbeG5FETk Doing Business Like Nature (Video 8 minutes). What Do We Mean by Compression? Compression is intended to expand our thinking dealing with the big squeeze on both us and the planet. There’s a dichotomy here: expand thinking; compress our...
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent. Jeremy Lent was founder and CEO of a software company in the Bay Area, and then become founder of the Liology Institute, seeking a way out of our environmental problems. The...
https://youtu.be/erKnbDJxykM Tribute to Loren Cole, Inquiring Systems Inc. (Video 4 minutes). Loren Cole’s Ecosystemological Principles. Loren Cole is probably the most accomplished environmental activist you have never heard of. Loren’s organization, Inquiring...
Implementation Aspects of an Ecosystems Approach, the Conservation of Natural Resources Program, University of California at Berkeley, 1969-1972; doctoral dissertation, by S. Loren Cole, 1975. Having peered into a number of doctoral dissertations, I began this one...
https://youtu.be/5VuBcmjXdQU Lawn as Sanctuary (Video 5 minutes). Growing Grass. A century ago, John Maynard Keynes and other economic notables predicted that mechanical automation would soon let us all have a lot more free time. It hasn’t worked out that way. What...
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce. Edward Luce is British, and currently the bureau chief for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, but his reporting is primarily political. Prior assignments around the world give Luce an international perspective, so...