THE IMPERATIVE REPORT: A NEW KIND OF NEWS 
BEYOND "BREAKING NEWS", SOUND BITES AND SILOS - PUBLIC AFFAIRS MEDIA THAT MATTERS

Curated

WHAT TO EXPECT HERE

As will be evident, the curated content to appear here will comprehend a range of media: links to websites, books, articles, and video; sometimes prefaced with brief contextual commentary to explain the reason for inclusion. Generally, content will be selected due either to being of completely independent, inherent significance in its' own rite - for example a scientific breakthrough - or because of the richness of its' implications for serving the cross/trans-disciplinary, and systemically integrative imperatives of the great global transition occurring under the grand, overarching challenge of remaining within the planetary boundaries; a long-term and highly non-trivial imperative interwoven with analytic, social, political, institutional, technological, ecological and other threads.  


WEBSITES

- The ultimate Imperative: Planetary Boundaries:
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries/planetary-boundaries/about-the-research/the-nine-planetary-boundaries.html 

- Enhancing effective democratic governance with Deliberative Polling, Stanford Professor, James Fishkin. In addition to its’ very significant inherent benefits, because of the importance of expert testimony to the success of these forums, there is a great opportunity for cooperation so that the testimony comes not merely from those having expertise about a subject as a silo, but to include in this critical advisory step in the process analysis and testimony from those having the dynamic-systems perspective which is generally necessary to form policies having the greatest chance of achieving optimal integrative benefit: 
http://cdd.stanford.edu/  

- Assessing the relative holistic health of societies beyond the sole economic metric of GDP, The Social Progress Imperative:
http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/ 

- A broad, dynamic-systems approach to changing policies relevant to addressing climate change; including a series of user-friendly, hands-on tools and simulators:
https://www.climateinteractive.org/ 

- Bringing collective intelligence to the challenge of conceiving and scaling integrative solutions to global climate change:
https://www.climatecolab.org/ 

- Debunking the denial of human-caused climate change:
https://skepticalscience.com/ 

- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB):
http://www.teebweb.org/ 

- Beyond wage income: Democratizing ownership of productive capital assets:
http://www.cesj.org/ 

- Democratizing economic development:
https://democracycollaborative.org/ 

- Given population-growth projections for global cities, administration of that challenge is an inherently multi-disciplinary endeavor: 
https://smartcitiescouncil.com/ 

- CASSE; Center for the Advancement of The Steady State Economy:
http://www.steadystate.org/ 
BOOKS/PAPERS

- Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions For the New Energy Era, by Amory Lovins; accompanying website: https://www.rmi.org/insights/reinventing-fire/    

- The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon; author/book website:
 https://homerdixon.com/writing/books/the-upside-of-down/

- This Changes Everything: Capitalism VS The Climate, by Naomi Klein; accompanying website: 
https://thischangeseverything.org/ 

- Wide array of content from Dynamic Systems expert, MIT Professor, John Sterman:
http://jsterman.scripts.mit.edu/Media,_Blogs,_and_Videos.html 

- Binary Economics: The New Paradigm, by Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare

- Ecology: The Ascendant Perspective, and, The Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton and Darwin, by Robert E. Ulanowicz 

- The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, by David C. Korten 

- The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together To Create A Sustainable World, by Bryan Smith and Peter Senge

- Cradle-to-Cradle and Upcycle, by William McDonough, and Michael Braungart

- Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State, by Nicholas Ashford and Ralph P. Hall

- Radical Abundance: How A Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization – by K. Eric Drexler; author website/blog:
 http://metamodern.com/about-the-author/

- Bibliography and links to material for theoretical biologist and complexity theoretician par excellence , Robert Rosen:
http://panmere.com/?page_id=9 






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