David Heeney

David Heeney sees the world as on the precipice of important changes – changes that will be positive if we step up, but could be very negative if as a society we do not address the big, systemic problems or messes that confront us. David is convinced that organizations can make a difference, whether public or private, and loves working with clients who share that vision.

A management consultant for several decades, with training in environmental design, David’s inspiration came from studying Buckminister Fuller, and being a part of the World Game Laboratory. The lab was originally run out of Bucky’s office, and allowed David to work on issues including global food and energy systems, urban agriculture, sustainable transportation plans and the Millennium Development Goals.

David founded IndEco Strategic Consulting in 1994 to provide clients with ways of looking at problems and opportunities as systems, drawing on the tools of INDustrial ECOlogy (the science of sustainability) and strategic planning.

David Heeney in Kosmos

Design Science: Thinking Like a Planet

Design science is different from other problem-solving and planning methodologies in its comprehensive, anticipatory, inclusive, and transparent approaches to the development of solutions. It takes a ‘whole to particular’ approach that is both global in perspective and in its examination of options. It seeks to build capacity rather than merely solve problems and to develop solutions that are transformative rather than merely the reforming of already inadequate systems.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 1

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,