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

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / March 4, 2020 / Health & Well-Being, mqpmusings, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 6: GLOCAL, reflective practice

At the end of February, as part of a speaking engagement on Blue Marble Evaluation in Charlotte, North Carolina, I had the opportunity to meet with a group of community leaders, activists, and scholars to discuss how we collectively and individually approach the climate emergency in our own work and our lives. The group included […]

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Moving at the Speed of Trust: The Role of Blue Marble Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / January 6, 2020 / evaluation science, mqpmusings, polycentric governance, Principle 13: Theory of Transformation

Trust matters for transformation. The Blue Marble theory of transformation hypothesizes that transformation requires multiple actors, networks, organizations, movements, and individuals actively finding common ground thereby magnifying their separate efforts collectively to create critical mass and tipping points. A theory of transformation integrates and aligns multiple theories of change. One important constituent theory of change in support

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