Connecting Personal Decision Making to Planetary Stewardship

Connecting Personal
Decision Making to
Planetary
Stewardship
PRINCIPLES AND
PERSPECTIVES

PREPARED BY DAWNA JONES

Revolutionary Action

"We never change things by fighting the
existing reality. To change something, build
a new model that makes the existing model
obsolete."
– Bucky Fuller

Connecting personal decisions to planetary stewardship.

The Imperative: Ecological-Socio/Economic
Collapse


Purpose & Intention

 See invisible;
 Perceive the whole;
 Leveraging the unseen
to accelerate effective
systemic change.

Visible; invisible.
Top level; systemic/structural


Unavoidable Consequences

Social Environmental:

Economic


Radical Shift in World View-Evolution of
Consciousness

―Without a global revolution in the sphere of human
consciousness, nothing will change for the better….
And the catastrophe towards which this world is
headed – the ecological, social, demographic, or
general breakdown of civilization – will be
unavoidable.‖

Vaclav Havel, Address to US Congress in 1991

Connecting personal decisions to planetary
stewardship.

Revolutionary Action

Business as Doing Things
Usual Differently


From Disjointed to a Unifying Perspective

http://www.turistica.si/downloads/obvestila/NagradaJereLazanski/JereL
azanski-NagrajeniPrispevek.pdf


Systems Thinking-Indigenous Perspective
Evolution of Human Consciousness (Dr. Carl Calleman)

March 3,2011 Conscious Co-creation
Jan.5, 1999 Ethics
1755 Power
3115 BC Law & Punishment
100,500 BC Reasoning
2,048,000 BC Similarity /Difference
40,998,000 BC Stimulus/Individual
Response
819,998,000 BC Stimulus/response
16.4 billion yrs Action/Reaction
ago
www.calleman.com

Evolutionary Arcs: Industrial to Present
Separation to Interconnectivity-Integration

stewardship.

Perspective: Planetary Evolutionary Pushes

Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Volatility
Mature Complex Ecosystem

Single celled , organisms, Foundation for Life

stewardship.

Perspective: Organizational/Business
Signals to Replace Control with Cooperation
Signals in Business Signals in Governance

 Stress-related illness  Oppression not
 Failure to ‗execute‘ acceptable
 Conflict that divides  Social media forcing
 Low levels of
radical-accountability
engagement  Public expectations out
 High turnover in
of sync with past
GenXY practice.
 Ethical breaches
stewardship.

Perspective: Personal Daily Pressure to Evolve

stewardship.

Underlying Principles: Fractal Geometry
Replicating Patterns-Self Similar Images

Benoit Mandelbrot recognized that the geometry of nature revealed a
similar pattern regardless of scale. .. A reiterated pattern of structures.


Replicating Patterns-Self Similar Images

―In fractal geometry we find that the universe is
actually built on self similar images meaning if you
can understand one level of organization, say the
level of atoms or molecules you can understand the
next level: cells, people, organizations, civilization.
Patterns express themselves through each of these
different levels. ― -Dr. Bruce Lipton


Implications: The Iceberg Effect

 10% conscious; 90%
subconscious
 Personal: Conscious
mind directs life‘s
results; Subconscious
produces.
 Organizational:
Conscious intention;
subconscious beliefs.
 Evolution of
consciousness applies to
all.


2011-Principles of a Living System

 ―The power of the individual to self-organize as it
strives to sustain itself; actualize its potential.
 Balancing principle of interdependence: life cycles,
feedback loops.
 Diversity‖
 Source: Profit for Life, Joseph Bragdon


Powered by Biophilia

 ―Innately (hereditary) emotional affiliation of human
beings to other living organisms.‖ E.O. Wilson


Nature‘s Evolutionary Process

Non-linear
Rapid/Radical
Interconnected
Always shifts to a higher order
Uses crisis or disruption


Disruptive Innovation-National

Nature Re-building Community

Prime Minister Naoto Kan:
 eco-village. Take advantage of
green technologies-biomass
fueled district-heating systems.
 Create a regional society-highly
resilient to the impacts of natural
disasters.
 Creation of a social system :
people live in harmony with the
environment.
 http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/reb
uilding-after-the-tsunami-eco-
or-transition-towns/


Increasing Number of Planetary Disruptions


Incoming In-formation from the Quantum Field

 Lunar phases-solar flares
and human activity:
http://www.glcoherence.
org/monitoring-
system/commentaries.ht
ml
 http://journal.borderlan
ds.com/2000/sunspots-
and-human-behavior/


Consciously Responding to Uncertainty

―We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above
restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result
of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we
have not yet fully accessed… our longing for
transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of
this adaptive potential and our violence arises from
our failure to develop it.‖
Joseph Chilton Pearce


Perspective: Human Adaptive Ability to
Transcend Adversity

Denying expression of personal
power-creative ability Digging Deep to Access Deep Knowledge

stewardship.

Scientific Principle: Personal to Planetary

 Global Coherence Project and the Heart Math
Institute

stewardship.

Resiliency in Humans – Immunity to Stress

 Belief in ―self-efficacy‖ —
we are agents of change,
earned through personal
accomplishment in the
face of a challenge.

 Source:
http://www.bnet.com/blo
g/harvard/how-navy-
seals-build-immunity-to-
stress/11518?promo=713&
tag=nl.e713


Change Agents Participating at all Levels

 Personal:
Volunteer, Living life
 Community
 Small-medium business
 Big business
 Government
 Institutional Agencies


Learning from Nature: Doing Things Its Way

Humanity’s Way Nature’s Way

 Heat-Beat-Treat-Waste  E.g. Spider‘s silk: 6
kinds, room temp, 5 X
 Heavy reliance on stronger than
petroleum resources steel, biodegradable.
for fuel and food.  Waste is food. Diversity
 Waste ‗disposed‘ as creates resilience.
waste. Alt: view as  Inter-connectivity
creates
resource. adaptability, efficiency, e
 Monoculture=low fficacy.
resilience.  Advanced technology-
highly adaptive.

Nature‘s Principle-Interdependence

―The success of the whole
community depends on
the success of its
individual
members, while the
success of each member
depends on the success
of the community as a
whole.‖

Source: Web of Life by
Fritjof Capra
stewardship.

Application: Business Leadership – Radical
Transparency

 Living Asset Stewardship
 www.lampindex.com
 ―..firm operates as a living organism dedicated to
value creation rather than a profit making machine.
It‘s a biocentric world view where the firm sees itself as
integral to the web of life not separate from the web
or above it. ―
 Interview with Jay Bragdon, January, 2009


The Results? Businesses Committed to a Higher
Level of Leadership
―In 2009, the Global LAMP Index, returned
44.56%, far surpassing returns on the S&P 500
(+26.46%) and the MSCI World Index (28.01%).
Over the past decade the Global LAMP Index
returned 98.03% while those other benchmarks lost
money.‖
-Joseph Bragdon, author Profit for Life
http://www.management-
issues.com/2009/1/26/podcast/recreating-
capitalism.asp


Nature‘s Principles: Decentralized

Manage by
Means

Frugality
SW Networked

Airlines

Open


Application: Company Culture

 http://www.management-
issues.com/2009/4/3/podcast/leading-to-a-future-
with-hope.asp


Nature‘s Principles - Cyclical

―All organisms in an ecosystem
produce waste but what is waste
for one is food for another so
that the ecosystem as a whole
remains without waste.‖
Source: Web of Life by Fritjof Capra


Application: Gain Efficiency

 ―Improving efficiency is primarily about
cutting the quantity and intensity of energy ,
waste, and materials.‖
 Walmart cut 5% of its packaging materials in
its supply chains to gain savings of $3.4 B by
2013
 - Embedded Sustainability: Laszlo//Zhexembayeva


Nature‘s Principle-Networks


Application: Networks of High Performance

 Social biology research in
Hewlett Packard:
http://www.managemen
t-
issues.com/2010/2/8/po
dcast/how-to-deliver-
phenomenal-results.asp
 Non-profit example:
http://www.reamp.org/


Complex Flow Networks

Your Body’s Immune
Internet Money
System


Emerging Properties from CFN (Lietaer)
 Structural Variables

• Diversity
Efficacy: • Interconnectivity
(capacity to process
volume)

• Diversity
Resilience: • Interconnectivity
(Adaptive ability)

stewardship.

Application: Stabilizing the Monetary System

Current system based on 17th Century assumptions. Assumptions we can change.


Disruptions in the Monetary System – B. Lietaer

 145 banking crashes
since 1970
 208 monetary crashes
 72 debt crashes.
 Structural issue:
Monoculture


Building Resilience: Complementary Currencies
Diversity-Flow-Interconnectivity

C3 to National Currency
WIR: Switzerland-1934 with 16

Now 65000 small-medium biz in www.lietaer.com
network


State of the Nations: Resilience through
Complementary Currencies
6000

5000 Argentina

Elsewhere

Japan
4000
Other Europe

Italy

Germany +
3000 Austria
Other Europe France

Benelux
Germany +
2000 UK
Austria

Benelux Australia

New Zealand
UK
1000 USA + Canada

USA + Canada
0
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Graph used with permission of Bernard Lietaer

How Every One Can Help –
Awareness, Knowledge, Action

Personal

Small –Med
Government
Biz

Medium to
Volunteer Big Biz


Personal-Inner Work

 Align thinking with feelings & action. Regulate
emotions
 Act on inspiration
 Raise consciousness
 Self-actualization
 Follow the Joy
 Maintain balance
 Use adversity for growth;
expansion


Personal-Outer

 Grow own food
 Participate
 Cut consumption
 Support diversity
 Cross-generation
collaboration
 Eat lower on the food
chain
 Fairmont Hotel Vancouver saves an estimated
$10,000 per year by growing herbs on its roof.


Organizational • 7 Levels Value • Networks
Creation
-Business
Sustainability Drives
Strategy
Value Creation B 2 B Currency
Raise consciousness of
leaders: existing and
emerging

Social
Innovation- Self-Actualized
Environmental Leaders
Stewardship

• Societal & • Whole Scale
Community Redesign-Shift
Initiatives Consciousness

http://www.sourcemap.org/ Transparent supply chains


Inspired Innovation-Leveraging
Partnerships

 A soccer ball that stores and generates power. North-
South http://youtu.be/u5gqoYkL8To
 The Power of Ecopreneurism:
Entrepreneurial/Consumer
http://www.management-
issues.com/2011/5/10/podcast/the-power-of-eco-
preneurism.asp
 Unilever: Cleaning up the Brantas River with Partners-
Corporate/Community http://www.unilever-
fwa.com/sustainability/casestudies/economic-
development/cleaning-up-the-brantas-river.aspx


Societal Power-Collective Consciousness

Sectoral

Non-profit Societal - Citizen lead
Action
Cooperation

Government

Estimated # of voluntary social-non-profit orgs dedicated to
societal/environmental action=1 million (Laszlo)

Nations – 7th Level of Consciousness
―Work with other nations to build
regional and global alliances that
support humanity and the planet
by focusing on human rights,
social justice, future generations,
the global environment and the
Earth‘s ecology. ―

Build constructive relationships
that support sustainable
objectives.

Source: Richard Barrett-7 Levels of
Consciousness
www.ValueCentre.com


Goal: Eliminate the Gap between Rich & Poor

Wealth-Abundance for All

Profit as the Sole Aspiration

Water, Energy, Food, Diversity: 10 Rules
of Complex Mature Systems

 Use waste as a resource: Novo Nordisk, Canon, BMW,
 Diversify and cooperate to fully use the habitat
 Gather and use energy efficiently: Energy 4th Revolution
 Optimize rather than maximize
 Use materials sparingly
 Don't foul their nests: Waste management
 Don't draw down on resources: Alternative fuel-food prod
 Remain in balance with the biosphere: support biodiversity
 Run on information: Stay open to changing conditions
 Shop locally.
Source: (Janine Benyus-Biomimicry)


Biomimicry: What would Nature do?
 Purifying Waste Water, Efficient buildings,
Stewarding Oceans
 Energy Alternatives: How do leaves generate power?
 Food: Agriculture: from mono to diversity.
 Manufacturing systems: Mimic nature‘s technology.
 Community: cooperation & collaboration.
 Frugality-Respect for Resources.
 Restoration-Remediation
 Flow of services (P.Hawkens)


The Bridge from Here to a New World

―The task of leadership is
to create an alignment of
strengths in ways that
make the system‘s
weaknesses irrelevant.‖ –
Peter Drucker

Global
Leadership=Rapid, gentl
er, peaceful
transformation

The Vision

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our
circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty. – Einstein


Credit to:

 Dr. Bruce Lipton: www.brucelipton.com
 Dr. Rollin McCraty: www.heartmath.com
 Joseph (Jay) Bragdon: www.lampindex.com
 Chris Laszlo: www.EmbeddedSustainability.com
 Bernard Lietaer: www.lietaer.com
 Richard Barrett: www.valuescentre.com
 Anne Murray Allen-Dennis Sandow-Nick Zeniuk
 Dr. Carl Calleman: www.calleman.com
 And many others on http://Management-
Issues.com/provocateur.asp


From Insight to Action ….

 ©2011 Dawna Jones: Change Maker (Biz-Personal) Expert
 With gratitude to the Linkedin Systems Thinking Group for
inspiration/instigation
 www.FromInsightToAction.com
 http://Management-Issues.com/provocateur.asp
 Contact re: speaking, workshops
or collaborating.
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones


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