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RESEARCHING CONTEXTS

- Knowing Our Environmental Autobiographies

- Evaluating Environments

- Mapping Community Assets

- Finding Cities In Our Genes

- Envisioning Green Urban Regions

- Surveying Urban-Regional Sustainability

- Minding The Times of Cultural Contexts

- Recalling Futurists' Forecasts

- Crowd Sourcing Public Assets Management



DEFINING VALUES

- Expressing Ethical Imagination

- Forming An Honor Code

- Applying Affinity Inquiry

- Practicing Transition Town Tenets

- Finding The Missing Moral Compass

- Surpassing The Midas Touch of Materialism

- Linking City Prosperity with Diversity

- Redirecting Progress with Innovation Education

- Evolving The EcoPsychology of Archetypes



ENVISIONING DESIGNS

- Discovering by Design

- Facilitating Workshops

- Designing with Metaphors

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Applying Biomimicry in Design

- Bubbling with Creativity

- Organizing Design Charrettes

- Expanding Outreach

- Gathering In World Cafes

- Circling in Open Space Forums







FORMING OPTIMUM DECISIONS

- Going Beyond Compromise

- Minding Wicked Uncertainties

- Defining Decision Types

- Elevating Intentions

- Making Decisions as Innovations

- Phasing 5 Perspectives


- Thinking with 6 Hats

- Evaluating Information with 6 Frames

- Mergining Intuition and Intellect

- Applying Psychology in Judgments

- Taking Turns Using The 8th Habit

- Creating Consensus by Progressions

- Diagramming Decision Trees

- Preparing Scenarios as Solution Sets

- Dissenting Respectfully


- Energizing Intentions

- Cultivating Constructive Judgment




ENACTING PLANS

- Modelling Green City Prototypes

- Collaborating with Cool Media


- Co-Owning Property


- Pooling Diverse Assets

- Charting Action Plans

- Incubating Start-Ups + Saving Costs




ENRICHING ENVIRONMENTS

- Opening Community Creativity

- Constructing Centers of Civic Life

- Developing Creative Culture

- Creating Temporary Utopias

- Sustaining Participation

- D
rumming with Hammers

- Organizing Outreach with 66 Questions

- - - Green City Holocracy - in progress

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