Sunday, April 10, 2022
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Diigo Update 12/31/2021
"Everyone in Berkana is actively engaged in the world, working in many different cultures with people of all ages and in many roles. These people are working to make significant changes that benefit their communities, the planet, and the future."
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Saturday, December 18, 2021
Diigo Update 12/19/2021
Regions Recover Together - California Forward
"Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Recent events have magnified the deep inequities and injustices in our communities, reinforcing the immediate need to bring about systemic change. As we work together to rebuild a more inclusive and sustainable California where all of our communities can prosper, it is more important than ever to reduce the significant racial and geographic inequalities that existed before the crisis."
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Design For Business Impact | Designer Fund
"Designers need to understand and demonstrate how their work impacts the success of their business. Leaders outside of design also need to know how to use design more strategically. By open-sourcing rare case studies from both multi-billion dollar companies and early stage startups, we aim to help you use design as a strategic business partner at your company."
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Sunday, November 21, 2021
Diigo Update 11/22/2021
GENESYS - New Approaches for Economic Challenges
"It is now widely recognised that reductionist, sectoral, ad hoc and short-term policies are inadequate to face the systemic structural issues which threaten the future. New analytical and systems-oriented approaches are required both to understand and to manage the connected systemic issues of the modern world. As governments are forced by reality to move towards more integrated systems-based approaches to the formulation and implementation of policy, it will become increasingly necessary to build new analytical capabilities within governments. New economic thinking and systems-based approaches offer enormous potential and Government Economists for New Economic Systems (GENESYS) offers a platform for debating, experimenting and discussing policy alternatives and the analytical approaches which underpin them."
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
Diigo Update 10/17/2021
Sticky studio is a real-time collaborative mapping tool designed to help your team flush out concepts fast and easily.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Sunday, September 26, 2021
Diigo Update 09/27/2021
EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool | US EPA
EJSCREEN is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic indicators. EJSCREEN users choose a geographic area; the tool then provides demographic and environmental information for that area. All of the EJSCREEN indicators are publicly-available data. EJSCREEN simply provides a way to display this information and includes a method for combining environmental and demographic indicators into EJ indexes.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Climate Change Indicators in the United States | US EPA
EPA partners with more than 50 data contributors from various government agencies, academic institutions, and other organizations to compile a key set of indicators related to the causes and effects of climate change. These indicators also provide important input to the National Climate Assessment and other efforts to understand and track the science and impacts of climate change. Explore the indicators below.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Weaving is an emerging practice of leadership that creates thriving communities, continuously aligning, learning and collaborating together toward a shared purpose.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
Diigo Update 09/26/2021
Local Resilience Planning | Pivot Projects
By harnessing the expertise and diverse viewpoints of global participants, Pivot Projects seeks to help solve the world’s ecological challenges, including climate change. We aim to influence on two vectors: by making policymakers aware of new thinking and priorities; and by working with people in their communities to help them identify and address their most pressing sustainability issues. We take a holistic view of humanity’s complex relationships with the rest of nature—incorporating not just science but economics, politics, arts, culture, personal development, community, and beliefs.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Los Angeles Regional Collaborative
The Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC) is a network of local and regional decision-makers ensuring a sustainable Los Angeles County prepared for the impacts of climate change. It is one of seven regional collaboratives in California supporting climate change science, policy and planning efforts across sectors. LARC's climate mitigation and adaptation work is driven by cutting edge research on local climate impacts and information management systems. As LA’s sole climate collaborative, LARC’s network includes climate practitioners from city and county government, regional agencies, non-profits, businesses, and academia.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
About the School of System Change | Forum for the Future
The School has been initiated and nurtured by Forum for the Future, with the support of multiple partners. We have the ambition to serve the emerging field of systems change, as a vehicle for connecting and amplifying spheres of learning and practice, and as a case study of an initiative grown explicitly as a system change endeavour. To do this we have used a methodological framework developed by Anna Birney, Director of the School and author of Cultivating System Change: A Practitioner’s Companion (2014). This framework suggests key capabilities for bringing about system change for a sustainable future can be divided into five core areas (read more here on our blog) which underpin our curriculum and our everyday practice.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Diigo Update 08/04/2021
Circular Buikslotherham: roadmap to a truly sustainable neighbourhood.
For Buiksloterham, a 100 hectare post-industrial site in Amsterdam-North, we developed a vision, roadmap and action plan to transition to a fully circular neighborhood. Today, the neighbourhood is set to become a global example of circular urban development.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Diigo Update 07/29/2021
Circular Economy: Sustainability implications and guiding progress (CRESTING)
CRESTING has recruited 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to train in cutting edge systematic analysis of CE-related activity and initiatives in a range of geographic and economic settings. The purpose of this is to translate critical assessment to lessons for managing the transformation to a CE. Hear more about Cresting from Dr Pauline Deutz, Cresting Project Coordinator in this short video
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Sunday, July 18, 2021
Diigo Update 07/19/2021
MMT Primer | New Economic Perspectives
These blogs begin with the basics; no previous knowledge of MMT—or even of economics—is required. The blogs are sequential; each subsequent blog builds on previous blogs. The blogs will be at the level of theory, with only limited reference to specific cases, histories, and policies.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Friday, July 16, 2021
Diigo Update 07/17/2021
The Transition Design Framework – Transition Design Seminar CMU
The Transition Design Framework provides a logic for bringing together the transdisciplinary knowledge, skillsets and practices relevant to understanding, seeding and catalyzing systems level change. It is comprised of four key mutually reinforcing and co-evolving areas of practices, knowledge and skill sets relevant to understanding, seeding and catalyzing systems-level change:
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Saturday, July 3, 2021
Diigo Update 07/04/2021
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Diigo Update 05/31/2021
Human Systems Dynamics Institute
We build capacity among individuals, teams, communities to deal with the complexity of day-to-day existence. In public and private Adaptive Action Labs, we guide clients through innovative design, implementation, and assessment cycles to find breakthrough responses to intractable issues. In research and writing we create and disseminate perspectives, models, and methods for thriving in the 21st century.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Thursday, May 27, 2021
Diigo Update 05/28/2021
Public Spaces – Knight Foundation
Public spaces are an important part of Knight Foundation’s work in cities and the communities where we invest. We believe that great public spaces have the power to transform cities. They are where neighbors can meet and residents can enjoy local arts and culture, take a jog or spend time with family. They help to advance civic engagement and the attachment people feel to their cities — both necessities for creating more informed and engaged communities. Recent research by the Center for Active Design shows that public spaces can help to facilitate community connection, trust and involvement.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Sunday, May 23, 2021
Diigo Update 05/24/2021
ReGen Villages, patent-pending VillageOS™ operating system software and ReGenerative Villages Simulator™ will enable the replication and global scaling of regenerative resiliency to meet the challenges of safe, healthy and secure communities in dynamically changing times.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
Diigo Update 05/14/2021
Visible Network Labs - Visible Network Labs
Once you make the decision to take a network approach to solving a problem, you need to design a specific strategy – the way you will build, manage and evaluate your network – in order to reach your shared goals. We created our PARTNER Method, a process for creating, tracking and adapting your strategy over time to advance your network objective. Here’s a quick overview of the PARTNER Method for Network Strategy.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Sunday, May 9, 2021
Diigo Update 05/10/2021
GENNA Alliance | Regenerative Communities in North America
The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) catalyzes communities for a regenerative world. GEN is a growing network of regenerative communities and initiatives that bridge cultures, countries, and continents. GEN builds bridges between policy-makers, governments, NGOs, academics, entrepreneurs, activists, community networks and ecologically-minded individuals across the globe in order to develop strategies for a global transition to resilient communities and cultures.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
SDG – MANY PRESSING CHALLENGES
The vision of the Forum is a world transformed into a flourishing planet that is inclusive and just. The Forum’s mission is to urgently co-create and amplify transformational infrastructure and initiatives that systemically support the emergence of that future aligned with and going beyond Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- - By Brian G. Dowling
The International Geodesign Collaboration (https://www.igc-geodesign.org/) was conceived as a means to compare the approaches and experiences of globally dispersed teams tackling the projects they would normally do, but using a common framework of guiding assumptions, project sizes, scenarios, analytical systems and presentation formats.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Design, implementation, and evaluation are typically treated as separate functions dealt with sequentially by different people with different roles who don’t communicate with each other. At the heart of the Blue Marble perspective you’ll find a pattern of breaking down silos, integrating separated functions, connecting people and places, and creating linkages across time. In that spirit, Blue Marble evaluation focuses on integrating design, engagement, implementation, and evaluation of programs and interventions of all kinds, especially initiatives working on making global systems more equitable and sustainable.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
Complex Movements | Emergence Media
Emergence Media explores the power of creative expression to activate social transformation. We work with a core group of artists and projects, and a wide network of collaborative partners to produce music, multimedia, installations, tours, workshops, and special events. We are based in Detroit, Michigan.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Friday, April 23, 2021
Diigo Update 04/24/2021
The Consilience Project is developing a body of social theory and analysis that explains and seeks solutions to the unique challenges we face today. It focuses on the deeper generator functions beneath the world’s major problems, drawing on the best of social theory while showing where existing theories and institutions are no longer adequate to fix the current problem landscape. The aim of the project is to help catalyze a cultural enlightenment that will develop a new set of shared values and capacities adequate to the needs of our time.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
Diigo Update 04/19/2021
Sociocracy 3.0 | Effective Collaboration At Any Scale
Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) is social technology for evolving agile and resilient organizations at any size, from small start-ups to large international organizations. Using S3 can help you to achieve your objectives and successfully navigate complexity. You can make changes one step at a time, without the need for sudden radical reorganization or planning a long-term change initiative.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Monday, April 12, 2021
Diigo Update 04/13/2021
Distrust, fear, and contempt have poisoned our society and personal relationships—perhaps including your own. 75% of Americans say this problem has reached a crisis level. Experts say the solution is to cultivate more positive social connections. A brighter future requires understanding, trust, and grace. Thankfully, 75% of Americans are willing to practice conversations across differences, and 36%—more than 100 million people—want to see a national campaign to improve those interactions.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
What we do - Systems Change Alliance
What is Systems Change? Systems change is the emergence of a new pattern of organization or systems structure. (Birney, 2015) It is both a process and an outcome. We are facing unprecedented economic, social, and environmental crises, and current reforms offer ineffective solutions. Naomi Klein has called for a movement of change that “connects the dots” to address the root causes of all current crises facing people and planet.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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