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Interior and Exterior
The Evolution of Consciousness is nothing short of the evolution of everything we experience on the gross and subtle planes. Biological evolution is not separate from this. For it is the nucleus (governing center of consciousness) of any sentient holon that dictates the *use of resources* of that holon thus altering the structural landscape of its matter-energy composition irrevocably. Mind and matter are but the interior and exterior of a single unfolding. (Leo Marrs) 
The ecology of knowledge in particular calls to mind the intimate connection between human thought, language, and culture, and the overriding reality that human beings are but one actor amidst a diverse society of beings—both within and without the human skin—living, breathing, and perishing inside of the much larger ecology of the Earth. The promise of a re-visioned ecology, sketched only in brief here, is that by taking ecology into account on three levels—matter, media, and mind—we are better able to construct practices of research that can aid the complex, multi-leveled worlds of which we are all a part. 
Integral Cities in different locations must adapt differing solutions to the same infrastructure problems. We need to evolve our internal environments and design our external environments in w... 
One of the things I love about evolutionary theory is just how sexy or erotic it is. From evolutionary you learn just what sexy beasts there are out there in the world. It really ticks me off when ... 
Integral Life Weekly Update | Conscious Leadership for Sustainability with Barrett Brown and Ken Wilber... 
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading -- through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events. 
This site has several infographics showing the impact of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Via Seth Dixon, Ph.D. 
Written by Tim Waterman, Writtle School of Design.
The ability to dominate and bend the planet to our creative or destructive will has guided our collective action in the landscape in recent centuries, but a richer idea of the landscape and our engagement with it may yet save us.
“What agency does landscape possess, as a means of territorial organisation and creative production, to engage critically with the conditions that define the collective aspects of our environment?” 
There are many unanswered questions to systematic problems throughout business, civic planning, and design. The answer to some of those questions just might be Zebra."
I have always known, there is more to those b/w stripes!! Too perfect in design. AC 
Natalie Jeremijenko’s unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking tadpoles, texting “fish,” planting fire-hydrant gardens and more. |
Starting May 27 and continuing until September 3, 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art (or MOCA) in Los Angeles will be presenting Ends of the Earth: Land Art… (21 Unforgettable Examples of Land Art - My Modern Metropolis 
The precipitous rise in the world’s human population and humankind’s ever-increasing dependence on fossil fuel-based ways of living have played a significant role in raising the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG). As a result, global temperatures are increasing, the sea level is rising, and patterns of precipitation are changing. At the same time, storm surges, floods, droughts and heat waves are becoming more frequent and severe. The consequent decline in agricultural production, increasing freshwater scarcity, and spread of infectious diseases, are degrading local livelihoods and diminishing human wellbeing around the world.
Indigenous peoples are the ones affected by the climate change the most, although they have contributed little to its causes. This is largely a result of their historic dependence on local biological diversity, ecosystem services and cultural landscapes as a source of their sustenance, wellbeing, and resilience. Via David McConville 
Kosmos publishes the voices of leading edge visionary thinkers and actors in building the emerging global culture... 
....The created landscape now occupies a position in philosophy akin to that formerly occupied by cinema: It is an aesthetic object so complex and multi-layered both in its production and in its reception that philosophers are reluctant to start unraveling its mysteries. 
Bishan Park is one of Singapore’s most popular parks where a concrete drainage channel along the park edges has been turned into a beautiful naturalised river that meanders through the park.
See article on: http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/kallang-river-bishan-park-singapore-atelier-dreiseitl/#.T3mBRjEaMZk This research paper proposes the concept of the 'general ecosystem'— a novel pattern of economic and social organization based on a holistic reassessment of human needs and a reintegration of our s... 
The City 2.0 is under construction. As the winner of the 2012 TED Prize--the first to be awarded to an idea rather than a person--TED unveiled its $100,000 “wish” Wednesday evening at its flagship conference in Long Beach, California. The wonderful and beautiful video of the work of Andy Goldsworthy. This incredible video shows the genius life and process of Andy Goldsworthy and his remark... 
The latest report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” The IPCC reports that the average global temperature is increasing at an alarming rate. 
New course about rethinking economy: integral sustainability in the Alanus Hochschule Germany. www.wirtschaft-neu-denken.de 
In the third installment of the AR’s campaign, Peter Buchanan introduces Integral theory, which establishes a new framework for the design of 21st-century buildings and cities...
This is really comprehensive. 
The Army Corps of Engineers is making floods. As part of a decade-long partnership called the Sustainable Rivers Project, the Corps and The Nature Conservancy are collaborating in eight river basins across the U.S. to modify dam operations for the benefit of downstream river and estuary health. In five of those basins – the Savannah River in Georgia and South Carolina, the Green River of Kentucky, the Bill Williams River of Arizona, the Big Cypress Bayou of Texas, and the Willamette River in Oregon – the Corps is releasing ‘designer floods’ from their dams. |
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