[All] Fwd: Occupy Wall Street: An Evolutionary Event? (Note my included technologically disruptive [LRT?] battery ref.)
Robert Milligan
mill at continuum.org
Sat Oct 29 01:09:27 EDT 2011
Hi All (Caution: not Blackberry appropriate),
Barbara Marx Hubbard (below) is great person -- and World Citizen. I
met her over 30 years ago at the yearly main Creative Education
Foundation Conference -- then only in Buffalo (http://www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/
). (The first time that I attended the CEF Conference I was able to be
a member of a group that explored possible projections for the year
3000.)
I was invited to attend the next two of Barbara's yearly SynCon
conferences in Washington, DC (http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/site/node/54
).
Those were the days my friends -- and we could have those days here
IF... !
Inspired Comment: If we (Greater Waterloo Innovation District?) are to
better compensate for our (still relatively) small size as a potential
World Innovative Hub, then a much higher level of Innovative
Uniqueness must necessarily be developed in each person -- 99% & 1%
alike -- and organization. The integration of creative thinking
methods and the SynCon process into our potential Greater Waterloo
Innovation District's (WR, GW, SP, BB & WO) future-developing
structure would be significant steps towards it manifesting a high-
uniqueness Collaborative Innovation Culture. And this would also help
create a more Coherent Strategic Direction that helps to rationalize
and strengthen our current innovative efforts. But none of this -- and
more -- will succeed if the "traditional" (even World-wide) dis-
harmonies between academics & non-academics, rich & non-rich, power
holders & non-power holders, etc. continue to exist!!! For the sake of
the advancement of at least our academic institutions & hi-tech
companies, cannot the leaders in the Greater Waterloo District better
help positively transform themselves and All individuals/organizations
not only for our community's sake but for the World as an example of
Potentially Sustainable Advancement (in these very desperate tImes?!!!
Best regards,
Robert M
PS: 1. You may be interested in an example of innovative "99%"
community involvement" that is below Barbara's email.
2. This is a reference to the German-government-proven very
superior (and technologically disruptive) battery (lithium-metal
polymer with vanadium catjhode) that we need to power our potentially
World-class LRT vehicle that I refer to below (http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/dbm-energy-lithium-metal-polymer.html
).
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "info at barbaramarxhubbard.com" <info at barbaramarxhubbard.com>
> Date: October 27, 2011 3:02:52 PM GMT-04:00
> To: "Robert Milligan" <mill at continuum.org>
> Subject: Occupy Wall Street: An Evolutionary Event?
>
>
>
> If you cannot view this email, click here.
>
> Dear Conscious Evolutionary Friends and Colleagues,
>
> Our time has surely come! Please see the attached letter I am
> sending out about the Occupy Movement. "Occupy Wall St., Evolve the
> World." The whole young rapidly spreading movement is an
> inarticulate yearning for a next stage of democracy itself, a next
> phase of community and society. The America Dream is not a noun.
> It's a verb. It's a Creative Evolution movement in embryo. While
> definitely against the misuse of power in corporations and political
> structure, we are also aiming at something more, something emergent.
>
> In my work we have been calling it the cocreative society and
> synergistic democracy. A society in which each person is
> encouraged to do and be their best. One in which Robert's Rules of
> Order evolves into synergistic rules of order that seek to find
> common goals and match needs and resources in the light of the new
> potentials of the whole system. In other words, to cultivate social
> synergy.
>
> I hope you will show up at your local Occupy movement and share your
> own ideas of what we are working toward.
>
> At the end of the attached Occupy letter there is a wonderful
> invitation for you to listen to the free Convergence Day Call
> featuring the first WELCOMING COMMITTEE that Stephen Dinan and I
> hosted on the Shift Network. The call features 12 evolutionary
> pioneers coming together to discover the linkages and love among us,
> sending out a message of cooperation and visions of the emerging
> world already in our midst, inviting others to do the same. Such
> innovators as Michael Beckwith, Jean Houston, Lynne Twist, Neale
> Donald Walsch, Lynne McTaggart, Rinaldo Brutoco, Jack Canfield,
> Oscar Miro Quesada in a brief two hours gave us the essence of their
> own work and sense of the present reality of the world that we are
> moving toward. We want to get the article and this message out to
> the Occupy Wall St. folks. Please help by forwarding to anyone you
> know who would be interested. If you were not on the Convergence Day
> call you can listen or download it for free by going to:
> www.Birth2012Convergence.com
>
>
> I am also thrilled to invite you to enroll in my new Agents of
> Conscious Evolution training (ACE3) on Shift Network that will start
> on November 8 for 12 weeks. This will be the last time that I will
> be presenting this course.
>
> http://www.theacetraining.com
>
> Teaching on the new medium of Internet has changed my life. At 81, I
> feel that I am literally becoming new. The medium IS the message, as
> Marshall McLuhan told us so many years ago. We are literally
> entering the global brain/heart nervous system of humanity when we
> join together as pioneers in conscious evolution.
>
> This training infuses the social field itself with the most
> comprehensive and empowering worldview that is yet available.
> Together we are seeding the "noosphere" as we connect heart with
> heart and center with center, in over 50 countries. We have coined
> a new phrase: We are "everyHere" and "everyNow." Please check out
> the course, and join over a thousand participants in cofounding the
> first global evolutionary community and communion for self and
> social transformation.
>
> http://www.theacetraining.com
>
> We are cocreating a global community of pioneering evolutionaries.
> Our purpose is to become guides in the evolution of our self and our
> world.
>
> Please join me and Stephen Dinan this Saturday, October 29 for a
> free call as we explore the full breadth and depth of the Birth 2012
> vision as well as answer any questions you may have about the Agents
> of Conscious Evolution (ACE) Training. To register please go to:
>
> https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/ace3i/FCE/
>
> I look forward with great joy to being with you during this holiday
> season as so many of us are joining together to give birth to the
> cosmic child, humanity, ourselves, at the next stage.
>
> With love always,
>
>
>
>
>
>
> BARBARA'S UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
>
>
> Friday, November 4 - Saturday, November 5, 2011
>
> The Gaia Centre presents:
>
> Toronto 2012: Co-Creating a CONSCIOUSness Shift
> Unity Church, Toronto, Canada
>
> A conference to address a global set of crises of evolutionary
> proportions. Be part of a Syn-Con, a model for social evolution at
> small group, community and organization levels!
>
> For more information and to register, see: http://www.gaiacentre.org/programs/upcoming/nov.-barbara-marx-hubbard.html
>
>
>
> Wednesday, December 28, 2011 to Sunday, January 1, 2012
>
> Integral Spiritual Experience 3: Kosmic Creativity
> Pacific Grove, CA
>
> In the third Integral Spiritual Experience, we will explore the call
> to evolutionary creativity-its source, its enactment, and its
> ultimate fulfillment as our own unique gift to the world.
>
>
> Receive a $100 discount off the registration cost by using the
> discount code: "Hubbard."
>
> For more information and to register, see: http://integralspiritualexperience.com
>
>
>
>
> Join me on Facebook:
>
>
> http://www.evolve.org
>
> Foundation for Conscious Evolution
> P.O. Box 4698
> Santa Barbara, CA 93140-4698
>
>
>
LRT in relation to bicycle trails in City of Waterloo, esp. Iron Horse
Trail
Context: I am also very interested in optimizing the usefulness of
citizens in regards to their effective participation in the decision
making process of public and private organizations -- to the degree
that citizens can make a helpful contribution. (Currently there are
too many decision-making processes that greatly discourage the giving
of "free" potentially useful advice by citizens including the bubble
of retired citizens, e.g. appearing before councils who say nothing in
response to a presentation based on much thoughtful research.) One
might even be so bold to say that member of the "1%" tend to hoard the
few existing "official" participation opportunities. [I've been
fortunate to have been a member of 1 school board advisory committee
(AC), 1 Regional AC, 1 Township AC, 1 Town AC, ,,, --- but rejected
for the Region's Environmental AC likely because of 1 blackball.]
As a long-time very involved citizen of this Region, I am most
interested in the optimal design and on-going redesign of public
transportation spaces -- especially re: efficiency, cost-
effectiveness, safety, aesthetics, health effects, ... .
Currently, I am exploring with various interested parties how the Iron
Horse Trail's (IHT) total space might better serve its present (walker/
jogger, cyclist) use and possibly accommodate an LRT. This is at least
for purposes of optimally ensuring that suggestions that I am making
-- to better realize the current approved LRT plan's performance &
cost objectives -- are viable as they relate to the IHT.
The IHT is one of the Region's most used trails. Its growing
popularity will likely soon require a re-design and width-expansion of
the trail to safely allow for continued efficient and safe use. This
would probably mean separating walkers from cyclists as they are now
doing on some Vancouver Trails.
We need to better keep our future municipal transportation development
options open. Therefore, provision should be considered in any IHT re-
design/alteration to accommodate a possible future sharing of the
trail space for as many as 2 LRT tracks.
This LRT enhancement could happen sooner (likely 1 track initially)
rather than later if Regional politicians realize that King St between
K-W downtowns can be much better intensified (yet be cheaper,
safer, ... ) by a slower moving bi-directional 1-track LRT (adjacent
to west-side curb) that has 3 peak period stops (w. passing tracks)
and uses all the current bus stops in non-peak periods (no
supplementary buses requ'd).
This above paragraph is best interpreted by keeping in mind that most
LRT intensification occurs closer to stops/stations. Therefore, 3 LRT
stops during peak periods combined with 8 LRT stops during non-peak
periods would intensify much more than the current proposed approach
(1 LRT stop supplemented with buses) . And to avoid this more frequent-
stopping corridor from being a speed (or accident) bottleneck for Go-
Train or longer distance (W/K, W/C, K/C) commuters generally, an IHT
"commuter connector" LRT track design complement is a relatively
inexpensive solution.
More specifically, a complementary IHT "commuter connector" -- from
downtown Waterloo (Caroline St,) to the K HUB -- would be faster,
safer, higher-capacity, cheaper (@ 1/10th cost per km.), ... than any
form of LRT along King St.. Likely, the LRT tracks would likely run
along the right-hand-side of the IHT on traveling from W to K. (At
Glasgow it would probably cross to the other side of the trail. Safety
features could include a fence separator, unique trail blocking arms &
warning lights at least at Glasgow crossover, ... ).
If they agree with my analysis & suggestions, then probably the Region
would have to acquire some parts of property along the IHT including
innovative arrangements with Sun Life Financial (both adjacent parking
lots).
Especially for our Tri-City intensifying-cores, the context here is a
near future where environmental (plus related social & economic)
necessities will require higher capacity but less energy-demanding
(more sustainable) transportation systems. (Note: sustainable energy
generation has high costs, so let's minimize our need for it -- and
all forms of energy.)
And this will have to be achieved with much fewer public financial
resources available due to chronic flat economies. Such a system would
be best realized by more corridors that robustly support pedestrians &/
or cyclists &/or LRT while -- where space is shared -- leaving
sufficient space for cars and trucks to move freely.
Here openness and creativity in our collaborative thinking would be a
great advantage. I look forward to hearing any thoughts that you might
have on these LRT related matters.
Note: All statements here about the LRT are based on using leading-
edge LRT vehicle hybrid propulsion involving a superior but proven
German lithium-metal polymer battery with at least Ford's in-
production V-10 hydrogen combustion engine. While this will increase
LRT vehicle costs, it will -- combined with hydrogen production from
waste-source methane and electricity from solar cell banks over our
terminals and maintenance facility -- compensate by saving on energy
operating costs (plus give the LRT energy security). Such energy
savings will greatly increase with time. More to the key point, the
previous means that we can also subtract one quarter of the LRT
system's capital costs by not having to electrify the LRT route (thus
also avoiding many ugly wires and transformers).
Not unrelated, I am heartened to hear that the City of Waterloo is
again leading the way environmentally by giving a greater priority to
more and safer cycling routes.
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