Fixing systems not symptoms
Welcome to everyone with an ambition that matches the scale of the world's challenges. Join us to design and inspire radical change in the 'game rules' and paradigms that determine whether things will get better or worse everywhere.
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Created: Nov 9, 2009
Updated: Jul 29, 2010
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A world that works for all is within our grasp!
Please get stuck in and help shape the opportunities for 'big picture' change that are beyond our expectations but not beyond our imagination. Thinking and actions about planet-scale whole systems can join the dots between entrenched viewpoints and offer a compelling new vision with practical new ways forward. This emerging picture, of a world that works, could quickly become tomorrow's reality.
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- start discussions around reinventing the systems that cause the symptoms.
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The strategy of handling problems one at a time, a bit at a time, hasn't worked and cannot work. Time is short but a new strategy is available: it is the ‘system’ that must be fixed, not all the separate symptoms. Habits of thought, world-views and economic rules-of-the-game can be switched from accelerating the damage to reversing it. This isn't academic nor complicated and if acted upon people would soon wonder why it wasn’t done long ago. |
One, oil on linen 90 x 200 cm 2009 by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox |
What's on your mind?
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This time without all the typos: I uploaded a slide I created on taxation. I'd be curious to get your reaction to it: http://tiny.cc/taxbadsnotgoods Edward Castano 12 days ago
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Thanks Ed, others can scroll down to this in the file library below. James Greyson 11 days ago
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Designing the Earth Future Co-operatively - www.ModelEart.Org Mr. Jan Hearthstone 10 days ago
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You mean http://www.modelearth.org/ Feel free to use this group for discussion, though you'll need to use a photo of yourself please. James Greyson 10 days ago
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Comment on the axing of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/jul/22/carbon-emissions-waste?showallcomments=true#CommentKey:50fb933a-acf9-4770-8df3-4ee5837dd436 James Greyson 8 days ago
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Another piece on getting sustainability oversight of governments, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/jul/23/sustainable-development-commission-porritt?showallcomments=true#CommentKey:746225f7-8ac7-4242-93e2-209721380b59 James Greyson 5 days ago
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My message will help to bring peace and will change many systems as well. You can find it here: Equalness & Uniqueness http://www.markbiemans.com/page3.htm Mark Biemans 5 days ago
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Thanks Mark, what do you think has stopped all the previous famous peace messages from changing systems? James Greyson 4 days ago
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Having a message is one thing, finding ur audience is another! Language which u use can be influential too...People can sense your attitude and tonality etc gareth price 4 days ago
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Thanks Gareth, please will you use a photo of yourself when commenting here; being visible is part of our message too ;-) James Greyson 2 days ago
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Planet-scale systems resources
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Seven Policy Switches for Global Security
Together the switches define a very rapid, practical strategy for global security; for a serious attempt at revival of co-operation, ecosystems and prosperity.
Beyond the Dark Night of the So ...more
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Positive development - building a new vision of progress
Positive development is a vision of progress to replace conventional 'development' in which progress is an illusion and incremental green improvements are futile. Buildings and the urban fabric are a ...more
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Resilience, systems thinking and social networks
A space to explore complex adaptive systems, systems thinking and how to think about networks in relation to transition. I would love to explore resources and thinking about how to analyze and su ...more
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Social Startup Labs
SocialStartupLabs.com is a Public Domain development center for entrepreneurs, cyber-activists, coders, community organizers and other folks who wish to find the cutting-edge (or the bleeding one) of ...more
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Enough is Enough
Video by a previously-unknown protest organisation, http://www.unitedwestrike.com/ inviting people to go on strike on the 15th of every month in the hope that this will "end wars, poverty, discriminat ...more
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Zero Carbon Britain 2030
New report says Britain could cut greenhouse
gas emissions to zero by 2030, creating hundreds of thousands of new
jobs and regaining energy security.A new report published by
the Centre for Alterna ...more
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zero-m (Zero Outflow Municipality)
Sustainable Concepts Towards a Zero Outflow Municipality (Zer0-M),
a project in the
Euro-Mediterranean Regional Programme For Local Water Management
Zer0-M aimed at concepts and tech ...more
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Join the 'fixing systems' discussions...
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What Systems need fixing?
"Wow, lots there Sandi. You're looking at systems of ownership, decision-making and resource-allocation - and especially how all these go wrong with patriarchal excesses? Us blokes sure have made a me" ...more
blindspotter commented about 1 month ago
What about applying system engineering to fix/invente our Systems ?
"Hi James and Benji,
interesting discussion. I guess we are dealing with trying to reconcile the two old chestnuts of hard systems vesus soft systems. Given we are biopyhsical beings in a biophys" ...more
johnrainbird commented 4 days ago
Can systems be Fixed?
"Thanks JP, great to have all these thoughts in the group. Apologies for the delay. You spurred me on to make a full set of pages covering each of the seven switches, which is completed this afternoon" ...more
blindspotter commented 3 months ago
What do you think of this design?
"Thanks Barry, will take a look. Yes the current system is rotten but unless someone thinks people are too rotten to do anything right then any new system (including yours!) that worked would be a 'fi" ...more
blindspotter commented 3 months ago
Topic: Towards Higher Mentality
"Is
panoramic thinking the same as systems thinking?
No, it was an attempt
to enter a wider notion. Here is my definition as given in Wikiznanie (in
Russian):
Panoramic thinking (PT) is manner
of thi" ...more
Vladitrety commented 3 months ago
Organizations
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Sustainable Cascadia
Activities: Activist, Educational, Networking
Scope: regional
Type: Community Based Organization
Scope: regional
Type: Community Based Organization
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Green Philanthropy For Families.Org
Activities: Activist, Educational, Networking, Philanthropy
Scope: international
Type: Network/ Coalition/ Collective
Scope: international
Type: Network/ Coalition/ Collective
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Earth First Construction
Activities: Educational
Scope: community
Type: Educational Organization
Scope: community
Type: Educational Organization
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Activities: Research
Scope: international
Type: Non Governmental Organization
Scope: international
Type: Non Governmental Organization
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BlindSpot global revival think-tank
Activities: Educational, Networking, Research
Scope: international
Type: Research Institute
Scope: international
Type: Research Institute
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Network
WikiPages: shared info and discussion
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We're learning fast about systems!
We're learning fast about systems!
Everyone please add here your suggestions for great sources of learning about systems and add in comments below about what you've learned about systems thinking ...more
Places to Intervene in a System - Navigation
This is a navigation page, so the explanation is below the chart which will contain numerous links.
Before getting into the list itself - Donella's disclaimer is key even if you don't read the whol ...more
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Positive Development, a 'turn-around' strategy ...
How far wrong have we gone
as a 'civilisation'? About 180 degrees.
Uh oh!
Ah Has, Oil on linen 30 x 30 cm 2010 by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
This article is part of an 'advanced researc ...more
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Climate Crisis: Fixing Systems, Not Symptoms
Climate Crisis: Fixing Systems, Not Symptoms
By James Greyson
Climate instability is a symptom of systems that can be fixed. So why does everyone keep trying to fix the symptom?
Year after year ...more
Degrowth : against sustainable development
Tokyo - Shinjuku district - Japan © Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Reconciling infinite growth and limited resources? This is impossible
for those in favour of degrowth. This way of thinking which came ...more
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'Fixing Systems' members
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Solutions
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Transition Towns
In
response to the twin pressures of Peak Oil and Climate Change, some pioneering
communities in the UK, Ireland and beyond are taking an integrated and
inclusive approach to reduce their carbon footp ...more
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Freetimea
Things could be better here on Earth (what with wars, corporations externalizing, wealth and power highly concentrated, predetermined learning systems, ... – all that).
Having alluded to a few of the ...more
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Help the Homeless
Whatever the reason people become homeless, we* all become penniless, cold, hot, hungry, confused, stressed, lonely and miserable. Homeless shelters are mostly breeding grounds of despair. Some people ...more
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