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Recognized by Machiavelli for its explanatory power, Polybius’ model was studied by the Founding Fathers of the United States and profoundly influenced their vision of the republic they were founding. The word anacyclosis has been variously translated as “the cycle of political revolution” and “the cycle of the constitutions.”
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By Gary Horvitz: "Does the term thriving actually mean anything? Or is it a merely artificial distinction? As Peter Block has said, all transformation is linguistic. What does the word thrive convey that the word sustainable does not? I would suggest four principles of Thriving: 1. Thriving is the spiritual dimension of sustainability. What sustain...
Jean Russell
Interview in Worldchanging: Jon Lebkowsky: Let's start with the definition of thrivability I found at http://thrivable.wagn.org/wagn/Nurture, that it's "our path out of unsustainable practices toward a world where all people have a high quality of life, a voice, and a nurturing earth supporting them. Using whole systems approach, it demands that we evolve our way of being together, of collaborating, so that our collective wisdom and action bring forth a flourishing world and thriving life." W...
Lonny Grafman
Lonny Grafman is the president of the Appropedia Foundation. Interview by Todd Hoskins: " I think that sustainability has a common connotation, especially in poor communities, that we are sustaining the status quo. Or at the maximum trying to be zero impact – minimizing our footprint. I see thrivability as engendering a sense that we are trying to go past minimizing our impact, instead aiming for a positive impact. Sustainability is about conserving resources and thrivability is about savorin...
By Gary Horvitz: "I’ve encountered a lot of talk about thriving lately. Everywhere I turn I am hearing that word: movies, meetings, online and personal conversation. It used to be that sustainable was sufficient. That word has now become inadequate. Now we need something more. Maybe “sustainable” has been used so much it’s missing the clearly principled clarity it once had. With all the machinations of the billion dollar public relations campaigns bent on greening corporate images, we can har...
Anneloes Smitsman: "The concept that is offered for exploring this transformational change process is called thrivability. Here are two definitions and ways of thinking about thrivability that have inspired the research that forms part of this dissertation. Firstly, from one of the founders of the thrivability movement, Jean Russell: - Thrivability...
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"The adaptive cycle is a model of natural patterns of change in ecosystems and eco-social systems. It consists of four distinct phases: ‘growth or exploitation’ (r); ‘conservation’ (K) of established patterns and resource distribution; ‘collapse or release’ (Ω); and reorganization (α).
Panarchy is a governance concept with 3 different origins and interpretations. The first one is individualistic panarchy, that would allow any individual in the world to freely choose his/her own community. Then there is a relational version, on the interconnection of governance levels, and a ecological version.
an explanation of the four basic categories of the emerging 'sharing economy', on Youtube [2]; for supporting text and graph, see: Four Future P2P Scenarios. We distinguish four formats for the so-called Sharing Economy, i.e.: Netarchical Capitalism, Distributed Capitalism, Resilient Communities and Global Commons.
Matrix defines the standard, and provides open source reference implementations of Matrix-compatible Servers, Clients, Client SDKs and Application Services to help you create new communication solutions or extend the capabilities and reach of existing ones.
Cap and Share (C&S) is both robust and equitable. It has the additional advantage that, until it is adopted globally, it can be used by countries and regions to set their own emissions on a downward path.
