Second in a series of six new books for a Darwin Anniversary Book
Cycle, Measuring Evolution: A User's Guide to the Health and Wealth
of Nations tells the inspiring story of the development, and
provides a guide to the use, of the Global Sounding. This is a new
instrument for measuring our local, national, and planetary health
and well-being on 15 basic indicators of evolution. Of widespread
prospective interest is the fact that, for the first time, this new
measure bridges what both progressive scientists and progressive
religious leaders increasingly view as a socially, economically,
politically, and morally disastrous gap between science and
spirituality. With hundreds of studies of evolution by natural,
social and systems scientists behind it, the Global Sounding has
been designed to provide a relatively simple new way of measuring
the impact of our human actions, or inactions, on the range from
cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution, through the evolution
of the brain, into the spread of cultural evolution through
personal, social, economic, political, educational, and
technological into moral and spiritual evolution, capped by the
evolution of consciousness and personal and social action to change
our world for the better. The name for the new measure comes from
Darwin's famous voyage of the Beagle-the ship originally
commissioned to circle the world to obtain soundings indicating
peaceful harbors and safe channels for navigation. The book is
animated by colorful, engaging, and often humorous stories to
illustrate how the new measure can be put to use by progressives
during the customary behind-scenes battles with advocates for the
status quo or regressives in key decision-making situations that
determine whether we move ahead, are checked in place, or shoved
backward in evolution. Along with illustrative test matrixes for
each of the following situations, the Global Sounding has been
designed to advance the successful advocation of and motivation for
globally-responsible programs, practices, and policies by
decision-makers in business, government, politics, science,
education, foundations, religions, and the media. The author, David
Loye, is an internationally known evolutionary systems scientist
and author of the award-winning The Healing of a Nation. Titles for
further books in the new series are Darwin's Lost Theory, Darwin on
Love, The Derailing of Evolution, and Telling the New Story, first
for a series of books by leading world educators on how to globally
shift from the old to the new Darwinian model in schools and the
media. In addition to more information on the Darwin Anniversary
Book Cycle, the website for the publisher,
www.benjaminfranklinpress.com, provides a marketing analysis of
prospective appeal to readers in editions for other languages in
Europe, Asia, and South as well as North America. The publisher has
also launched an online Darwin Anniversary Report
(www.darwinanniversary.com) to provide a central news source for
scores of events now underway around the world during the current
global buildup for the 200th Anniversary of Darwin's birth.
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