Hall Original (1986): Ecority/Aesthetics
The capacity, skills and personal, organisational or conceptual influence to enable persons to take authority for the created order and to enhance its beauty and balance through creative technology in ways that have world-wide influence
The personal. organizational or conceptual influence to enable persons to take authority for the created order of the world and to enhance its beauty and balance through creative technology in ways that have world-wide influence.
Proposed: Global Ecology
Contributing to global ecological balance through creative technology.
Rationale: Simple, direct descriptor. "Ecority" is also a legacy from the older theologically inspired Hall-Tonna system. Hall himself has more recently changed the label of this value to Ecology/Global
New Label (2008): From Ecority/Aesthetics to Global Ecology
Final (August 2010): Deep Ecology. The personal, organizational, economic, and conceptual influence to enable people to take responsibility for creating global sustainability.
New one is much simpler - I struggled to connect with the old one. How important is the "world-wide influence" aspect of the old version? I'm just wondering if the new descriptor would benefit from including that aspect?
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ReplyDeleteenhancing the world by the creative use of technology to have all forms of capital (human, manufactured, financial, and natural) working in harmony
there is something in halls initial descriptor about the relationship between finance and environment that seems to be 'lost' in the proposed descriptor I'm not convinced my suggested descriptor does the trick. needs some discussion
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The value Convivial technology already covers the technology aspect. Like the label change. Perhaps the definition could be: "To influence people so as to ensure the ongoing viability of the global ecological system."
ReplyDeleteThe personal, organizational or conceptual influence to enable people to take responsibility for creating a sustainable global society
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ReplyDelete• The personal, organizational or conceptual influence to enable people to take responsibility for creating a sustainable global society and ecosystem.
• The personal, organizational or conceptual influence to enable people to take responsibility for creating a just society based on a sustainable global ecosystem.
• The personal, organizational or conceptual influence to enable people to take responsibility for creating a just society grounded in a sustainable global ecosystem.
• The personal, organizational or conceptual influence to enable people to take responsibility for creating a sustainable society grounded in a viable global ecosystem.
• The personal, organizational or conceptual influence to help people take responsibility for creating a sustainable society within a viable global ecosystem.
I think I am leaning towards the last one on Tims list - (although I also like the second one) - my reasoning being that I see everything humans do as contained within the global ecosystem so creating our sustainable society within the viability of the ecosystem makes sense and places for me the emphasis on viability first and then what we want second
ReplyDeleteRetain Deep Ecology (as currently worded) and redeploy it as a Means value in the same cluster and then add the new value "Global Environmentalism(?) - The personal, organizational or conceptual influence to help people take responsibility for creating a sustainable society within a viable global ecosystem." as a Goal value in this cluster... recognising that "creating a sustainable society within a viable global ecosystem" as a (the?)key outcome, goal, mission for people holding a global, ecological / social/ economic systems, planetary worldview... and that the Deep Ecology paradigm and movement is one of the seminal influences on this worldview.
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