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Acknowledge and act on  your stake in how the Anthropocene unfolds.

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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.
Author
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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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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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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BME Book Club - Chapter 12

This month, we will be reading Chapter 12 in Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles, which introduces the principle of Skin in the Game.

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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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Book Review: Blue Marble Premises and Principles

Summary: Michael Quinn Patton’s Blue Marble Evaluation is a forward-looking, path-breaking, and timely contribution to evaluation theory and practice. The title of the book evokes the Blue Marble shot—a photograph of the whole earth taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. The preface of the book displays the first image of our lonely planet captured from space in 1968 (Earthrise).

Author
Robert Picciotto, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Year
2020

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Evaluation Implications of the Coronavirus Global Health Pandemic Emergency

In this blog, Michael offers his perspective on the implications of the global health emergency for evaluation.

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The Interconnection Between the Global and the Personal: A Blue Marble Perspective

One of the principles of Blue Marble Evaluation is connecting the global with the local. This includes connecting the personal with the global, zooming out to understand the big picture of what’s happening in the world and zooming in to our personal actions, ethics, and sense of responsibility. To what extent do individual transformations in our personal carbon footprint matter? In what ways do people think personally about the climate crisis and needed systems transformations?

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Identifying and living into your Personal Principles - What it truly means to have skin in the game

In this webinar, Nora Murphy Johnson applies the Blue Marble Perspective to our personal development as blue marble evaluators.

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