Integral Life is thrilled to announce the launch of TruthIsNotEnough.com: An Integral Approach to Climate Change. We are offering a sneak preview to the Integral Life/Integral Naked community before we launch this to over one million people over the next month. Feel free to share this important initiative with others by sending them to our public-facing domain at www.truthisnotenough.com. Please come see what we've been working on the past 3 months, and join the group if you want to offer your perspectives. We will have dedicated media, inquiries and blogs, all revolving around the ten-year plan to green the global economy. We would love for the Integral Life community to be the first participants in the new group before it is released publicly... so come on over and help us lay down the right integral groove!

These offerings are all available for free.  For more free offerings, be sure to check out TruthIsNotEnough.com. 

The Cultural Creatives

Paul Ray and Jim Garrison

"Evolve or die, children" is the emerging mandate of history at the dawn of the 21st century.  Both healthy and disruptive avalanches of change are driving massively new forms of human action and communication in political life, business, the environment and elsewhere.  Paul Ray and Jim Garrison discuss the birth of this new evolution of human consciousness and discuss how these "cultural creatives" are critical to the movement necessary to tackle our most pressing ecological and economic problems in an age when information alone is sorely inadequate.

This is a Foundational Series piece being offered in preparation for State of the World Forum, which in conjunction with Integral Life and other partners around the globe will employ an integral approach to global climate change and a 10-year Global Transition Initiative to green the global economy.

An All-Inclusive Framework for the 21st Century:
An Overview of Integral Theory

Sean Esbjorn-Hargens

This primer to integral theory provides an up to date introduction and is an ideal piece to give to colleagues and friends who keep asking "What is 'integral theory' anyway?"  For years we have heard people complain that there isn't a solid intro to the AQAL model. While Ken Wilber has penned a few introductions, these are often not viewed as ideal presentations for many professional contexts. Our hope is that this new introduction will help fill this gap, and offer individuals another resource to help communicate the basics of integral theory. This introduction is also written in a way that even seasoned integral practitioners will find illuminating, with new details of integral theory being explored.

A Comprehensive Approach to Today's Planetary Issues:
An Overview of Integral Ecology

Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael Zimmerman

This primer basically serves as a 15 page summary of the 800+ page Integral Ecology book that was recently published by Shambhala. Michael and Sean have intentionally removed all integral "jargon" and have made this as accessible to a wide audience as possible.  So for those of you who want the cliff notes version of Integral Ecology, here it is—but keep in mind that all the juicy endnotes (all 200 pages of them) are only in the book! 

Purchase Integral Ecology here.

Description of Integral Ecology

Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economists, ethicists, activists, philosophers, and others often taking completely different stances on the issues—how can we come to agreement to solve our toughest environmental problems?

In response to this pressing need, Integral Ecology unites valuable insights from multiple perspectives into a comprehensive theoretical framework—one that can be put to use right now. The framework is based on Integral Theory, as well as Ken Wilber’s AQAL model, and is the result of over a decade of research exploring the myriad perspectives on ecology available to us today and their respective methodologies.

Dozens of real-life applications and examples of this framework currently in use are examined, including three in-depth case studies: work with marine fisheries in Hawai’i, strategies of eco-activists to protect Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, and a study of community development in El Salvador. In addition, eighteen personal practices of transformation are provided for you to increase your own integral ecological awareness.

Integral Ecology provides the most sophisticated application and extension of Integral Theory available today, and as such it serves as a template for any truly integral effort.

Climate Change: A Broader View
An Integral Summary of Climate Change

Dr. Karen O'Brien

In the attached white paper, Dr. Karen O'Brien, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo and lead author of the adaptation chapter of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, warns: "Climate change is now recognized as one of the most challenging and complex problems facing humanity—the problem is real, the stakes are high, and there is no single 'solution.' No measure will be met with the instant gratification that is often expected by people in modern, high-energy consumption societies. In this article I discuss why an integral approach is not only necessary for addressing climate change, but urgent. I argue that an emphasis on understanding climate change from an objective, systems perspective has downplayed the importance of subjective, interior dimensions of climate change, when in fact the integration of both aspects is needed. I then present six reasons why an integral approach can be considered both useful and necessary for responding to climate change. Finally, I consider what integral theory might offer to current policy debates about one of the world’s climate change 'hot spots'—the Arctic region."