The Tao of
Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works
for All with Rosa Zubizarreta (The Writers' Collective,
2003).
The First Little Book on Co-Intelligence, with Karen Mercer
(The Co-Intelligence Institute, 1996), 66 page paperback booklet
Awakening: The Upside of Y2K,
ed. with Judy Laddon and Larry Shook (The Printed Word, 1998)
5/03 "Politics for
a Co-Creative World," Science of Mind, May 2003,
Vol. 76 No. 5, pp. 91-98.
12/02 "Wisdom, Democracy,
and the Core Commons," EarthLight: The Magazine of
Spiritual Ecology, Fall/Winter 2002, pp 22-26.
12/02 "Citizen
Panels," Yes!: A Journal of Positive Futures, Winter
2003, p. 43.
12/02 "Co-Intelligence: A Vision for Social Activism,"
IONS: Noetic Sciences Review, December 2002-February 2003,
No. 62, pp. 22-27.
9/02 "A Vision of Co-Intelligent Activism," The Permaculture
Activist, September 2002, Issue 48, pp. 2-7.
3/02 "Thoughts on the Israeli Soldiers' Claim for Peace,"
Spirit in the Smokies: Magazine of New Paradigm Living,
March 2002, p. 33.
2002 "Using Synergy, Diversity,
and Wholeness to Create a Wisdom Culture," Talking
Leaves: A Journal of Our Evolving Ecological Culture, Vol.
11, No. 3, Winter 2002, pp. 26-29.
2/01 "New Advocacy Center Envisioned by Wisdom Council,"
The Other Paper, Feb. 2001, p. 7.
1/01 "First Innovative Community 'Wisdom Council' to be Held
Here in Eugene," The Other Paper, Jan. 2001, p. 13.
11/00 "Beyond Positions:
A Politics of Civic Co-creativity," The Other Paper,
Nov 2000, pp 6-7.
2/00 "Ways to make a community
stronger, wiser, more resilient and engaged," Front
Porch News, Feb 2000, p. 2.
1/00 "A few survival tips," and "Thoughts on the
Turning of the Millennium," Front Porch News, Jan
2000, p. 3.
2000 "How to Make
a Decision Without Making a Decision" Communities:
Journal of Cooperative Living, Winter 2000, pp. 26-30.
2000 "Political Life: Moving
from Collective Stupidity to Collective Intelligence,"
Talking Leaves: A Journal of Our Evolving Ecological Culture,
Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2000, pp. 36-40.
12/99 "Co-Intelligence
and Community Self-Organization" and "A Co-Intelligent
Toolkit for Working with Groups," The Permaculture
Activist, Dec. 1999, pp. 4-10.
10/99 "Searching for Juicy Sustainability," Front
Porch News, Oct. 1999, p. 3.
1999 "Community Organizations, Local Government, and the
Effort to Prepare Communities for Y2K," with Rosa Zubizarreta,
National Civic Review, Vol. 88, No. 2, Summer 1999, pp.
95-107.
1999 "The Year 2000 Problem
and Sustainability: Rediscovering Nature and Neighbors through
Y2K", Talking Leaves, Spring/Summer 1999, p. 40.
1999 "Y2K and Sustainability",
Co-op America Quarterly, Spring 1999, pp 20-22. (This article
was excerpted in The Coastal View, Carpinteria, CA, Feb
18, 1999.)
1/99 "Community Compliance," HopeDance, Jan/Feb
1999, p. 10.
1/99 "Y2K Presents Spiritual
and Emotional Challenges", Y2K Solutions, Jan.
1999 p 27
1/99 "Why the Year 2000
Problem is an Environmental Issue," Bay Echo,
Jan 1999, p. 2.
1998 "Y2K Resources," YES! A Journal of Positive
Futures, Winter 1998/99, p. 53.
1998 "The Transformational Dance: Communities and Y2K",
Communities, Winter 1998, pp. 42-45.
1998 "Might Y2K be Yeast for BREAD?", BREAD Rising,
Vol 2, Iss 3, p 3. [BREAD = "Berkeley Regional Exchange And
Development", the name of Berkeley's local currency]
1998 "What You Can Do About Y2K: Political & Spiritual
Empowerment", Earthlight, Summer 1998, p. 5 (subsequently
reprinted in the Humboldt Senior Resource Center newsletter
in Eureka, CA; date unknown)
1997 "Bringing Down Walls:
A Native Elder's Earth & Spirit-Based Prison Program,"
Earthlight, Winter 1997/98, pp. 8-9, 22-23.
1996 "The Politics of Understanding," Yes!: A Journal
of Positive Futures, Fall 1996, pp 37-39.
1995 "Some Notes on Group Learning and its Mission,"
Group Learning, Fall 1995, pp 4-5.
1/92 Alternatives for Changing Societies (a booklet distributed
in Czechoslovakia and Russia, as well as to Thinkpeace subscribers)
included Atlee's articles "Simple Little Known Truths about
Democracy and Power" and "Surviving in the Global Free
Market" and "Permaculture"
1991 "Transformational
Politics", In Context, No. 30, Fall/Winter 1991,
pp. 56-58.
1991 "The Conversion of the American Dream" in The
Sacred Earth Journal, Winter '91
1990 "The
Conversion of the American Dream" in In Context,
No. 26, Fall '90, pp. 15-19.
1/90 "From Issues to Values; from Confrontation to Dialogue"
in PeaceWork (AFSC)
8/89 "Thoughts on Flags" in The Folded Crane
1989 "Who is the Public" and "Education for
Change" in Moving Toward Peace: A Study of Peace Movement
Strategies and Tactics, booklet by SF Study Group
9/88 "Taking the World Personally" in Delmarva Peacework
6/87 "Movement Building and The Different Drum
by M. Scott Peck" in PeaceWork (AFSC)
1986 "Who's Manipulating the Peace Movement" in Critique
(Fall/Winter)
6/86 "Viewpoints from the Great Peace March" in PeaceWork
(AFSC)
1986 The Peace March Update, Numbers 1-5 - newsletter of
the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, written
and published by Karen Mercer and Tom Atlee, May-Nov 1986.
1985-1994 - 49 articles for Thinkpeace. This peace movement journal was edited and published by David Martinez through the July 1989 issue. Tom Atlee edited and published it from September 1989 through October 1994. All articles below were written by Tom Atlee. Those marked with a * were subsequently translated and reprinted in the Slovak journal For Life.
Thinkpeace articles:
10/94 "What is Co-Intelligence," "Co-Intelligence
and Social Change," "Five forms of co-intelligence,"
"Ways of Co-Intelligence," "Some
characteristics of a co-intelligent society," "Notes on positive co-intelligent
social change actions," "Guidelines
for co-intelligent social change," "Overcoming obstacles
to Co-Intelligence," and "When I awoke to co-intelligence,"
9/92 "Using the 1992 Elections to Build Democracy" and
"Deep Democracy and Community
Wisdom"
1/92 "Dialogue at the Heart of Change" and "The
Newsweek Columbus Challenge"
9/91* "Transformational Politics"
6/91* "Czechoslovakia and Humanity's Crisis of Development"
(based on three research papers which Atlee wrote for the Czechoslovakian
Environmental Ministry, which they reprinted and distributed but
didn't officially publish)
3/91* "Beyond Anti-War, A New World Community," "Sources
of the Gulf War," "Ten Ways to Transform the Media"
and "A Note on Adversarial Analyses"
12/90 "Community, Democracy and Beyond"
3/90* "A Guide to the Movement Action Plan" and "Interview
with Bill Moyer"
1/90 "Using the 1990s to Transform American Politics"
11/89 "The
Conversion of the American Dream" and "Interview
with Richard Healey"
9/89 "Peacework in a Changing World" and "The Listening
Project: an Interview with Herb Walters"
7/89 "A Time to Gather Stones Together" and "Thoughts
on Flags"
5/89 "More Notes on Power and Peace"
3/89 "Moving to Higher Ground"
1/89 "Some Notes on Power and Peace"
11/88 "Powerful Poverty"
9/88 "Finding the 'Best Way'"
7/88 "Taking the World Personally"
5/88 "The Long Run - The Whole Way"
3/88 "A Green Direction for Peace"
1/88 "Thinking Big About Election Year"
11/87 "Peacebuilding"
9/87 "Bits and Peaces"
7/87 "A Whole Peace"
5/87 "Towards a Science of Peace"
3/87 "Evolving Towards Peace"
1/87 "Two Peace Movement Paradoxes"
11/86 "Mobile Peace Activism"
9/86 "Building Our Own Game"
7/86 "Peace City and the Peace Movement"
5/86 "Who Owns the Game?"
11/85 "Mobilization of Diversity"
1986 "Everywhere Into Am" and "A Texture of
Water" in Libra (Antioch College) Fall
1984 "What Win?" in San Fernando Poetry Journal
VI-3
1984 "Freedom and Demo" in San Fernando Poetry Journal
VI-1
1983 "Cinderella Leaf" in American Poetry Anthology,
Spring/Summer
1982 "Night Song of the Seaside Jogger" (prize poem)
in Bury Me Sioux
1966 "Where is Dresden?" in Ann Arbor Friends
Meeting Bulletin
1960 "Albert Schweitzer's Contributions" in The
Times Express (Monroeville, PA)
Recorded speeches and published interviews
Maureen McCarthy and Gayatri Lee, "Interview with Tom
Atlee and Review of his book: The Tao of Democracy."
Spirit in the Smokies, March 2003, pp 10-12.
"Y2K is a Door that Looks like a Wall" at Catalyst 2000,
Ashland, OR, June 6, 1999 (made into a video)
"Y2K: Reorienting Our Values: A conversation with Tom Atlee
and Jay Earley," interviewed by Michael Toms and excerpted
in New Dimensions, Mar-Apr, 1999. p. 4-7.
"Y2K as a Doorway to Resilience and Renewal," in
Just In Case: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Y2K Crisis,
ed. by Michael Brownlee, Barbara Stahura and Robert Yehling (Origin
Press, 1999), pp. 135-142.
"Questions for Public Officials," with Gordon Davidson
and Margo King, translated by Haru Murakawa, in Japanese Y2K
Action Guide, 1999, pp. 71-76.
"Y2K and Environmentalism," in Japanese Y2K Action
Guide, 1999, pp. 122-128.
"Questions for Public Officials," with Gordon Davidson
and Margo King, in Y2K Citizen's Action Guide (Utne, 1998),
pp. 42-45.
"Finding our Way to Sustainability Through Y2K: A Resource
Guide" compiled with Gayle M. Parrish and Panther Wilde,
in Y2K Citizen's Action Guide (Utne, 1998), pp. 116-118.
(The Utne Y2K Guide also featured a cover quote by Tom
Atlee)
Briefing Papers, and chapters in briefing booklets and major proposals by others
"What if There is A Technical
Fix for Y2K?", "Why
Community-Based Responses Make More Sense," "Some
Y2K Opportunities" (excerpt from "Y2K and the Environment")
and "What Sort of Spiritual
and Emotional Challenges Does Y2K Present?" in The
Year 2000 Problem: An Opportunity to Build Community: A Guide
for Y2K Study Circles, published by the Northern California
Earth Institute in March 1999.
"How the Media can Make
or Break Our Society's Encounter with Y2K", in Reporting
the Future: Y2K: Perspectives and Resources for the Media,
published by The Arlington Institute, March 1999, pp 18-23.
"Government & City Officials:
Q&A", with Gordon Davidson, Margo King, Jim Laurie,
in Reporting the Future: Y2K: Perspectives and Resources for
the Media, published by The Arlington Institute, March 1999,
pp. 27-31.
"Citizen Participation:
Engaging the Public in a National Response to the Year 2000 Problem",
in the All Together Now proposal to U.S. Congress, Nov
1998, pp 27-34.
Briefing reports on "Green Cities in Czechoslovakia"
for the Czechoslovakian Federal Environmental Ministry, May-June
1991.
Books by others in which Tom Atlee's
collaboration is acknowledged
John Ott, et al, Centered on the Edge: Mapping a Field of
Collective Intelligence and Spiritual Wisdom (Fetzer Institute,
2001)
Jay Earley, Transforming Human Culture (SUNY Press, 1997).
Arnold Mindell, Sitting in the Fire (Lao Tse Press, 1995)
Ken Norwood and Kathleen Smith, Rebuilding Community in America
(Shared Living Resource Center, 1995)
Frances Moore Lappé and Paul Du Bois The Quickening
of America (Jossey-Bass, 1994)
Carolyn Schaffer and Kristin Anundsen, Creating Community
Anywhere (Tarcher, 1993)
Board, council, and other public service committee memberships
Progressive Coalition Planning Committee volunteer, Eugene,
OR 2001
Whitaker Neighborhood Council elected member, Eugene, OR 1999-2000
The Co-Intelligence Institute founder and board member 1997-2002
The Center for Group Learning
board member, Oakland, CA 1996-1999
Transformational Learning Community co-founder 1993-1995
Ecology Center elected
board member, Berkeley, CA 1991-1992
Great Peace March Policy Board elected member 1986
Peace Desk, Mondale-Ferrarro Campaign, Boston, MA 1984
Invitational conference attendence
First International Mary Parker Follett Conversation on Creative
Democracy, Boise, ID, Oct. 2002
First National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation, Alexandria
VA, Oct. 2002
International Association for Public Participation, Cascadia Chapter,
Eugene, OR, Sept 2002
Pathways Invitational Gathering, Tahoe, NV, June 2001
Nonviolent Communication Social Change strategy meeting, Oakland,
CA, Oct 2000
Hollyhock Invitational Gathering, BC, Aug 1999, Nov 1999, Aug
2000
Fetzer Institute Y2K National Gathering, Kalamazoo, MI, Feb 1999
National Coalition 2000 Strategic Planning Retreat, Washington,
DC, Nov 1998
Y2K Community Preparedness Gathering, Boulder, CO (helped plan),
Aug 1998
Workshops, speeches, presentations,
testimony, conferences (facilitated or organized)
"Citizen Deliberative Councils and Democratic Innovations,"
Oregon PeaceFest III, Eugene, OR, Feb 2003; Teach-in, San Francisco
State Univ., Nov 2002; Dialogue and Deliberation Conference, Alexandria,
VA, Oct. 2002; Creative Democracy Conf., Boise, ID, Oct. 2002;
Co-Creating Structures For Change, Seattle, WA, June 2002
"Co-intelligence and Co-stupidity in Public Participation,"
International Association for Public Participation, Cascadia Chapter,
Eugene, OR, Sept 2002
"Holistic Politics," Permaculture Guild, Eugene, OR,
Apr 2001, Sept 2001, Dec 2001.
"An Alternative Approach to Democracy," Global Peoples'
Assembly, Seattle, WA, Dec 2000
Interviews for Fetzer "Centered on the Edge" project,
Aug-Sept 2000
"Co-Intelligent Processes for Communities," Fellowship
of Intentional Communities conference, Eugene, OR, June 2000
Corporations as Organisms conference (online facilitator), Mar
2000
"Holistic Politics," Permaculture Guild, Eugene, OR,
Feb 2000, May 2000, Sept 2000
Telluride, CO, Y2K Community Forum (speaker), Nov 1999
"Y2K is a Door that Looks Like a Wall," Ashland, OR,
June 1999
Co-intelligent processes workshop, Eugene, OR, Mar 1999
Y2K Preparedness Class (speaker), Eugene, OR, Mar 1999
Ukiah, CA, Y2K Community Forum (speaker), Mar 1999
Y2K Open Space Conference, Oakland, CA (org, fac) Feb 1999
Alternative/Local Currencies Conference (fac OS, circles), Palo
Alto, CA, Feb 1999
Testimony to the CA State Senate Oversight Hearing on Year 2000
Preparedness, Feb 1999
Several radio interviews and Bay Area Y2K forums, Jan-May 1999
Spokane, WA, Y2K Community Forum (speaker), Oct 1998
Bioneers Conference Y2K workshop, San Francisco, CA, Oct 1998
Natural Step Open Space Conference (org, fac), Berkeley, CA, Nov
1997
"What is Societal Intelligence?", Feb-Oct 1993, an 8-month
written dialogue involving Robert Theobald, Fran Peavey, Howard
Rheingold, Willis Harman, Hazel Henderson, Andrew Schmookler,
Arnold Mindell, Duane Elgin, Charles Johnston, Eleanore M. Cooper
and a dozen others.