"This literature review and synthesis aims at developing a knowledge base to inform the Ministry of Education on how to develop, implement, and maintain online communities of practice (CoPs), and how communication technologies can be used to support them."

"In the summer of 1996, a group of Nova Scotians came together to bring Robert Theobald, economist and futurist, to Nova Scotia to participate in community -based discussions following his proposed Massey lecture series on "fundamental transformational change at the personal and community level". Subsequently this group went on to found the Network for Creative change (NCC) with the goal of facilitating "systemic change" through creativity, learning, design and development using networking concepts."

"My thesis in all of this is that this Approach is brilliantly designed to deal with (not manage, not optimize, not improve, not solve problems in— just effectively deal with) complex systems and environments. And we are learning that most of the systems and environments that we puny humans try to affect are, in fact, complex ones."

"What the world needs now are Gaia Care-Takers -- People who can make our civilization's final decades times of important learning, each a little better than the last, and as full of love and joy and rediscovery of our connection with all life on Earth as each of us can make it."

"As a writer, the following comment by ee cummings is, I think, the equivalent to my belief in a "portrait that becomes so miniature that it becomes the truth."

"We all agreed that there is not a sufficient spiritual focus for the environmental movement. And without a spiritual focus, a movement like this doesn

Conversation about how to conceptualize (the future of) the Gaia Community