Club of Rome – Institute for 21st Century Agoras

Policy is more than a product of process; policy is process itself

tomflanagan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:57:32 +0000

The London School of Economics and Political Science blog site carries an evocative – if not provocative – post from a Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Studies, at the University of Oslo. The post is nine months old, and hasn’t drawn much response – however, the commentary does beg for an audience. Plato

Planet under Pressure

kenbausch — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:27:55 +0000

Professor Ray Ison of the Institute for Sustainable Futures reports on a Planet under Pressure We share Professor Ison’s concerns. A split in systemic thinking erupted in the origins of the Club of Rome in 1970. An original proposal by Hasan Ozbekhan and Aleco Christakis offered 49 Continuous Critical Problems (CCPs) and argued for a dialogical

Democracy as the Means to Discover the New Narratives for Sustainable Futures

tomflanagan — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:42:48 +0000

Democracy is in the business of continually creating a new narrative … oral, textual, and graphic … that can move through and transform communities. While some voices within the Club of Rome have railed against the shortfalls of distorted democracy (and we can see their points), there are few alternative governance approaches which we feel

Reconnecting with the Club of Rome

kenbausch — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:32:59 +0000

Agoras received an invitation from Roberto Peccei, son of Aurelio Peccei, to attend the 40th anniversary celebration of the publication of The Limits to Growth at a special Club of Rome session at the Smithsonian. We sent a small delegation. Roberto extended this invitation during a cordial conversation in which Aleco and Roberto traded stories