Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, Now Ecological Intelligence

 Those interested in Daniel Goleman's work -- he wrote the best-selling Emotional Intelligence in 1995, followed by Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998)  Primal Leadership (2002),  and Social Intelligence (2006) -- may be interested to know he's on to a whole other realm of awareness now: what he calls "ecological intelligence."

In his latest book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Broadway Business, 2009), Goleman takes on the ways in which consumers -- that's all of us -- are contributing to the global environmental crisis by not knowing how products are made. He defines "ecological awareness" as understanding the “hidden web of connections between human activity and nature’s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections.” 

You can read a summary of Goleman's work in the March 15, 2009 issue of Time Magazine; the editors there picked "ecological intelligence" as one of the "Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now."