ISSS 2016 Realizing Sustainable Futures
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APR2016 by Michelle Kovacevic A new report finds that sustainability science is undergoing rapid growth, but some experts argue that researchers need more support for working across disciplines and borders. An analysis of 11 million publications has found that sustainability science is growing at a rapid rate, almost twice as fast as the average across (more…)
Read moreLinks on Sustainability Leadership: http://www.watercentre.org/education/leadership/attachments/5.pdf http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=aglecdiss Do these three forces create circumstances in which leaders emerge: (1) quantum physics and new science that takes a more holistic view (Wheatley, 2006), (2) globalization and technological advances, and (3) the environmental social movement? Are we entering a new era of leadership? What are the qualities of (more…)
Read morePlease Note for Upcoming Events and Opportunities…. Begin forwarded message: From: Ramakrishnan Raman <ramakrishnan.raman> Subject: Reg systems engineering contest for students Date: November 12, 2015 at 9:38:24 AM GMT+1 To: “krupanidhi.srirama” <krupanidhi.srirama> Cc: “supriya.kummamuru” <supriya.kummamuru>, Surya V <adhya_surya>, John Jay Kineman <john.kineman> Dear Prof Krupanidhi, Please find attached a call for entries for students systems engineering competition being (more…)
Read moreHome | Anticipation 2015 | Featured Sessions Life Itself: A Relational Theory Presenter: Dr. John J. Kineman in collaboration with Ms. Judith Rosen Participation: All are welcome. By advance arrangement, a limited number of papers and/or presentations may be contributed to this session on topics that directly support the workshop agenda. Please contact (more…)
Read moreHere is the text of the Pope’s Encyclical….. Download (PDF, 980KB)
Read moreFrom: Alexander Laszlo <thelasz> Subject: Re: [Planning] new plan posted Date: April 8, 2015 at 12:53:48 AM PDT To: “planning” <planning> Reply-To: “planning” <planning> Dear John&Friends, The more the focus of the 2016 conference is discussed the more I am intrigued by the potential for weaving a number of highly synergetic initiatives into active and productive relationship. (more…)
Read moreHello group, this is my promised report about the Santa Barbara pipeline oil spill. I did manage to get out to Refugio Beach and Santa Barbara and made a few promising contacts. The spill occurred between Refugio and El Capitan. The photo is from Apple Map – not showing the spill, but (more…)
Read moreThanks John, I will see who in our ocean literacy community is involved in the work in Santa Barbara and encourage connections. There is nothing like a crisis to get attention. The challenge is to use the opportunity to highlight the possibility of anticipation of such a crisis occurring and to look (more…)
Read moreFolks, I’m visiting in Los Angeles now and there is a potential real-time “crisis science” case in Santa Barbara. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/22/santa-barbara-oil-spill_n_7418010.html I’ll try to get out to Santa Barbara in the next few days to see if DOI’s crisis science team has a response effort. It is interesting timing. Santa Barbara is where I used (more…)
Read moreMichael provided some nice references to the concept of Anticipation. It is also crucial to the Rosen relational theory perspective that Judith and I have in mind to resurrect in ISSS. Rosen wrote a book called “Anticipatory Systems” and that is a central aspect of his “Relational Biology”. Indeed, our normal understanding (more…)
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