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Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context

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Know and face the realities of the Anthropocene and act accordingly.

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders.
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Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2019

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Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

What are we learning in this pandemic? We are seeing that individuals matter: individual actions have reverberating consequences. We are also seeing that systems matter: how systems act to address the pandemic and protect peoples have dire consequences for the individuals that live in society and for the rest of us around the blue marble.

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Year in Review

In this last webinar of 2020, Michael, Glenn and Pablo look back at the year 2020 and reflect on what we have learned about Blue Marble Evaluation's application in this rapidly changing world. Click here to watch a recording of this webinar.

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Perspectives on Precedents: Viewing 2020 in a Larger Historical, Cultural, and Political Context

This dialogue between Kim and Michael addresses the use of the word "unprecedented" to describe 2020 and the historical erasure inherent in its application to a context that is all too familiar to many indigenous people.

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2020 in Words: Insights into the Trajectory of Humanity on the Blue Marble

"Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” 

- Rita Mae Brown, American feminist writer


At the end of each year the Oxford English Dictionary selects a word of the year. The selection is both retrospective, chosen because of dramatically increased use in both published and social media, but also prospective, for calling attention to the word of the year tends to increase its use.

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Blue Marble Evaluation First Anniversary

Click here to watch a recording of our one-year anniversary sunrise ceremony, featuring a prayer for our Earth by Nicole Bowman and contributions and stories from members from around the globe.

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Igniting and Sustaining Community-led Transformation: Tostan's Proven Approach

This webinar is now complete. Please click here to access a recording. Ms. Bonometti has also written a follow-up blog post answering some of the questions posed during this webinar. Click here to read that post.

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Evaluation and the Challenge of Our Time - AEA Panel Follow-up Conversation

This webinar will provide a space for panelists from a recent AEA session on the climate crisis to continue the conversation and answer questions

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TRUST on the leading edge of survival

In January, before the pandemic, I offered a blog on Moving at the Speed of Trust: The Role of Blue Marble Evaluation.  This is an updated review of how attention to trust has evolved during this turbulent year. In that new year’s blog I wrote:

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Thresholds of Transformation: How r3.0 Defines “Progress”

r3.0 (Redesign for Resilience and Regeneration) just hosted its 7th International Conference in September. In this webinar, they present a round-up of activity from it.

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