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General Discussion

Spreading the Message and Pushing the Message - Started by Bill Rathborne and Jeannie Scown.

Selling the thwink method - Started by Robert Gowans, internet techie and marketer.

Rob has proposed cranking up an internet marketing campaign for the Thwink message. This will be a first, and could make a huge difference, because so far, the message is spreading very slowly.

Intellectual Call to Action - Started by Michael Hollcraft, anthropologist and consultant.

This stirring call to action is the most often viewed topic on the forum. Michael leads off with a description of how he, as an anthropologist, is systematically going about making a contribution to solving the sustainability problem. What is not shown in the thread are the many messages Michael has been posting on another forum, one for anthropologists, as well as many emails, phone calls, etc.

The Benefits of Our Hardwired Need to Consume - Started by Philip Bangerter, global sustainability director of Hatch.

Philip pointed out that this article points out how the human system is biased toward over consumption. Then he asked if this might be a possible high leverage point? Discussion touched on that analysis must preceed intutitive questions like this, that we really do probably need to take the hardwired aspect into account, Peter Senge's personal mastery, rational thinknig, and lately leadership.

Conservative views of nature = deceptive ?? - Started by Mai Kuha, professor of linguistics.

Mai makes the point that what appears to be deliberate deception by conservatives is not deception after all, because it is consistent with their worldview. One example of this worldview is Lakoff's "Strict Father" model. Discussion examined internal versus external rationalization, how the conservative world view ignores the facts of the sustainability problem, the rationalism trap, what is moral and real, descriptive versus prescriptive models, and memetics.

The Dueling Loops of the Political Powerplace - Started by Jack Harich, systems engineer.

This discusses the Dueling Loops paper.

Experimentation

The Very First “First Experiment” Has Been Run and Second Run of “The First Experiment” - Started by Jack.

These two topics present and discuss the very interesting results of Michael's and Philip's runnings of the First Experiment.

The Precipitating Event

The Dueling Loops Book--pre-publication, first edition - Started by Rick Krause, hydrogeologist.

This is more about the Dueling Loops book than the paper.

First reaction to draft of "The proper coupling package" - Started by Johan ten Hoven, student, The Netherlands.

This gets into some detail about the Proper Coupling Package paper.

Projects

The Diagnostic Project Proposal - Started by Jack.

This long thread discusses and announces news related to the paper on Taking Up Where Limits to Growth Left Off: A Diagnostic Project Proposal.

The Port of Hastings Project - Started by Michael Hollcraft, anthropologist and consultant.

This concerns how Glenn MacMillan is trying to solve an actual problem in Australia, by applying the principles of Analytical Activism.