Join us on Facebook, where each month Monadnock Buy Local will focus on a different building block of our Local Living Economy– highlighting the businesses, organizations & individuals who are making these components stronger and more resilient in our region. Read more about this project – Our Local Living Economy: Connecting the Dots Building Blocks: [...]
Archive for the ‘Systems Thinking’ Category
Monadnock Buy Local Hosts Ongoing Online Monadnock Local Living Economy Discussions
Posted in Collaboration, Local Economies, Systems Thinking on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Self-Organized Economy
Posted in Local Economies, Systems Thinking, tagged Biomimicry, Coevolution, Self-organization, Tom Wessels on February 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
By Tom Wessels, Core Faculty at Antioch University New England I stand atop New Hampshire’s Mount Pisgah looking east toward Mount Monadnock and see what appears to be an expansive wilderness. Within the hundreds of square miles that stretch before me there is only one thing suggesting the presence of people—a lone, white farmhouse nestled [...]
April 2010 Local Living Economy Event
Posted in Systems Thinking, tagged Andy Lipkis, Antioch University New England, Bioneers, Treepeople on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the spring of 2010, Antioch University New England partnered with the Hannah Grimes Center to offer a follow-up event to Keene State College Symposium. It is clear that our region has a wealth of initiatives working to strengthen our local living economy. The focus of this event was to explore how we are addressing [...]
Complete Streets: Maximizing Local Living Economies
Posted in Collaboration, Monadnock Complete Streets, Systems Thinking, Transportation, tagged Antioch University New England, Complete Street Policy, Keene Young Professionals Network, Monadnock Earth Festival, Vision 2020 on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of designing roads with the sole intention of getting a vehicle from place A to place B, why not consider each road as part of a larger system – a system that impacts our safety, economic development, quality of life, the environment and public health? (AKA: Our Local Living Economy.) A Complete Streets Policy [...]
Majora Carter: 3 Stories of Local Eco-Entrepreneurship
Posted in Systems Thinking on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The sum of the local IS the global:
Systems Thinking Quotes
Posted in Systems Thinking on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static snapshots. Fragmentation, competition, and reactiveness are not problems to be solved–they are frozen patterns of thought to be dissolved.” – Peter Senge How is Systems Thinking being discussed at [...]
How Are We Contributing to Our Local Living Economy?
Posted in Systems Thinking, Vision & Mission on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While exploring the idea of a “local living economy” in the Monadnock Region, the Hannah Grimes Center compiled a collage of logos from local organizations, businesses, and community groups who are already contributing to our local economy and community in diverse and important ways. Contributions such as: Encouraging charitable giving Paying staff to volunteer for [...]
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