It took four billion years for life to evolve into the delicate but resilient web of living systems that cling to the rim our planet. This living matter is distinguished from non-living matter by its inherent tendency to self-organize, or to dynamically and innovatively make complex order out of disorder.
LivingWeb Consulting is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the ecosemiotic diversity of life on earth and resolving pressing environmental dilemmas such as global climate change by enhancing this self-organizational tendency in the living system that is modern Western culture. We focus on propagating an ecological epistemology in modern society and fostering a biomimicry model for organizations, which emphasizes diverse stakeholder feedback and collaborative learning to enhance collective intelligence.
The Cultural Solution to Global Climate Change Starting around 400 years ago, those educated in the Occident were trained to think of themselves as separate from nature. This flawed epistemology or way of knowing nature led to an inherently irrational and intrinsically futile attempt to control and dominate the greater environment of which humankind was merely a dependent part. The necessary shift in thinking to "humans = humans + environment" is simple yet powerful. Tuesday, September 11, 2007 01:44 AM
Richard Currie Smith's Web 2.0 Blog
The Sustainability App: Ecological thinking and Web 2.0 Not only is Web 2.0 centered on ecological thinking, the fate of life on earth may just lay in the hands of the self-organizing or emergent innovations that Web 2.0 can facilitate. Friday, April 17, 2009 03:20 AM
Living systems insights, the crucial Why of Web 2.0 Living systems understandings provides the crucial why to Web 2.0. Knowing why something works adds the essential component of depth, it guides decisions about what patterns, or sets of relationships to look for and what paths of exploration to follow. Tuesday, December 11, 2007 04:26 PM
