Six Choice Metaphors to Unfold Economics
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
Human ecology opens us beyond a reductive view. We are part of understanding; our regard is from ‘inside,’ not as ‘outside’ observers.
Tag: systems thinking
An Introduction to Common Earth
By Sarah Patterson, Resilience.org
We believe that people armed with particular skillsets and understanding of the world, who together form a community able to harness the power of the collective wisdom can, and will, embrace an emerging regenerative world.
Liberating the Captured Imagination
By Vandana Singh, The Great Transition
What does the climate crisis have to teach us? Are we listening to what the Earth is telling us, as planetary systems necessary for the maintenance of life continue to unravel?
Introduction to The Web of Meaning
By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings.
Feedback Loops and Climate Catastrophe, or… the Story of the Baseball Bloodbath (Episode 45 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
This episode examines the fascinating world of positive feedback loops, which play an outsized role in the not-so-positive phenomena of climate change, biodiversity loss, and political polarization.
A flyfishing ecology
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
One of the greatest and most overwhelming conceptual breakthroughs of my life was the realization that everything in our universe is connected and interacting in networks of interdependent cause and effect through time.
The story of Adélaïde Merle: My journey to systemic thinking
By Adélaïde Merle, Gaia Education
The Design Studio course and Ecovillage Design Education programme are empowering courses that helped me learn how to think in a systemic holistic way and become aware of privileges and biases along the process.
Facing the Eye of the Needle
By Otto Scharmer, Medium.com
The image of the Ever Given — needing to unload its cargo in order to get unstuck — represents in a microcosm the collective impediment that rich countries and Western civilization embody today: holding on to stuff and refusing to share with those who are on the other side of the social divide.
Cognitive Bias and Global Warming, or… the Story of Cattle Prods and Ice Cream Shops (Episode 32 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Jason, Rob, and Asher take a tour of ice cream shops, Scandanavian DMVs, and the chess team to explain such cognitive biases as the Dunning-Kruger effect, confirmation bias, default effect, and sunk cost bias.
Scientists must learn how to interact with Indigenous people
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Ensia
It is time for the great advances of Western science to catch up to the traditional interconnected thinking of Indigenous people, to help move us all forward toward a more resilient future.
Facilitating communities of practice: from individual to ecosystem learning outcomes
By Corina Angheloiu, Medium.com
The concept ‘community of practice’ is underpinned by an assumption that learning is a social process rather than a passive act of knowledge transfer between a knowledge giver (usually a master, expert or teacher) and a knowledge receiver (usually an apprentice, a novice or student).
Cracks in the supply chain: Is metastable turning into unstable?
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
What we are witnessing as a result of this pandemic is a widespread challenge to metastable systems upon which our societies depend. The most obvious are those related to hospitals and health care products. We often read in the news that hospitals are near "the breaking point" as if the hospital walls will burst when too many patients crowd into the building.