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Act with a sense of urgency in the present, support adaptive sustainability long-term, grounding both in understanding the past.

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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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Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet

This webinar will provide an in-depth look at how one foundation applied the Blue Marble Evaluation to their work. 

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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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Reflection on Curves: Pandemic curves, climate curves, social justice curves, and humanity’s learning curve

It seems like a long, long time ago when the clarion call for managing the coronavirus pandemic was flattening the curve, but it was only seven months ago. In this blog, Michael explores what Blue Marble Evaluation lessons can we extract from the impact of the curve?

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BME Book Club - Chapter 8

Join Michael and your fellow Blue Marble Evaluation Network members for a conversation about Chapters 8 & 9 of Blue Marble Evaluation Premises & Principles. This conversation is only open to BME members. Click here to join the online discussion and access the link for this live conversation.

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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).

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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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Climate Emergency from a Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective

The 2019 Oxford Dictionary word of the year is "climate emergency." The word of the year is both retrospective, chosen because of dramatically increased use in both published and social media, but also prospe

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Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity: How national governments can secure economic prosperity and avert climate catastrophe by transforming cities

A flagship global report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions.
Year
2019

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