Front Matter

Participatory Sustainability

Notes for an emerging field
of civilizational engagement

Tom Atlee

ISBN-13:
978-1542856393

ISBN-10:
1542856396

Published by
CreateSpace
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Scotts Valley, California 95066
for
Co-Intelligence Institute
PO Box 493
Eugene, OR 97440

Participatory Sustainability: Notes for an emerging field of civilizational engagement copyright © 2017 by Tom Atlee. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ .

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Dedicated to

Iris Atlee

my granddaughter
who has the challenge and opportunity
to participate
in making a world
so much better
than the world she was born into
…….

We make the road by walking.

Paulo Friere and Myles Horton

This ain’t no party,
this ain’t no disco,
this ain’t no foolin’ around.

Talking Heads

The Grand Challenge is global unsustainability.
National security and the bridge to resilience have just as much to do with food, water, the built environment, transportation, education, health care, and the physical solvency of our nation as some bad guy sitting in some dark corner plotting whatever deed he’s going to do.

Marine Colonel Mark Puck Mykleby
former Special Strategic Assistant
to the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff

The development of a worldview which will respond to the challenge of our times requires an imaginative recognition of humanity's fundamental participation in the natural world, a recognition of the way the human person, mind and body, is engaged in a co-creative dance with the primeval givenness of the cosmos.
In this vision humanity is nature rendered self-conscious, one part of the cosmos capable of reflecting on itself, which has evolved so it stands on the threshold of conscious participation in the unfolding of the whole.

Peter Reason

The way we’ll hold it together is to hold it – together.

Sarah Crowell