Archive for May, 2007
Kim Stanley Robinson Interview Available
Tomorrow at Future In Review 2007 I have the opportunity to interview Kim Stanley Robinson on stage as part of the program. Stan is simply one of those authors you must read if you want to get the future. His recent trilogy, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting, is [...]
Full StoryQuestion About the Future: Recruiting the Retired, Our Aging Workforce
Our most recent question about the future is from Deb Palmer, of Washington State Dept of Natural Resources, who asks: “I’d be interested on your thoughts about the workforce—we’re starting to see shortages in some fields. The predictions are that the median age of the middle-class worker will continue to rise. What do we as [...]
Full StoryWater Cycle and Climate Change
This is a guest blog entry from our writer, Mark Safford. One of the major problems with greenhouse gases and global warming is that they are seriously disrupting the world’s water cycle. This is that massive, complex system by which water is evaporated from the surface, rises to clouds, and falls again as precipitation, usually [...]
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