Archive for October, 2007
Seattle Shines
The City of Seattle reported that its on-target to its Kyoto goals. That is fabulous. There’s a conference of Mayor’s meeting there this week that includes other global warming luminaries as well (Clinton/.Gore – sound like a ticket to you? And perhaps they are now doing even more good than they did in the White [...]
Full StoryWhy plan for possible futures?
Sometimes people ask me “Why plan for the future?” They go on to say something like, “The world is changing so fast we don’t even know what the future will be.” Well, we do know a lot. We’ve also had a fabulous example of planning that paid off in the California fires. Disaster planning is [...]
Full StorySolar Decathlon on the Capital Mall
If you are in Washington DC this weekend, and the coming week, it looks like it would be interesting to visit the “Solar Decathlon” on the Capital Mall. Sponsored by BP, this is an opportunity to demonstrate and test various designs for solar in the home. Twenty university teams (MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, U.C. Santa [...]
Full StoryManagement Craft
A very good blog to be aware of is Management Craft, which is done by Lisa Haneberg. Lisa regularly features podcast interviews with leading authors, like this recent “fireside chat” with Michael Stallard. Good place to go to keep up with who is thinking what about current and future management issues. Lisa comments also in [...]
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Leading futurists Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard today announced the launch of a web-based video series called Future Talks. Future Talks, produced by Doug Kaye (founder of the Conversations Network), debuts today on the Media Conversations channel with two long-form, in-depth videos that feature each futurist individually. They are interviewed by Mobile Entertainment Forum Chairman [...]
Full StoryFuture Talks Launches
Tomorrow is the launch of Future Talks – a new online video channel jointly presented by Futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, and by Media Conversations and the Conversations Network. View or listen to Future Talks episodes at our Future Talks page, and check out all Future Talks productions at FutureTalks.com. You can also subscribe to [...]
Full StoryA Thousand Points of Light: Some Perils in “Think Global and Act Local” Thinking
I’m at the National Association of Telecommunications Officers annual meeting in Portland. I’m quite impressed with the people, and with what I see many of the cities and counties here doing to keep some level of local and free press available, and to build community networks for everything from economic development to closing digital divides. [...]
Full StoryFuture Workers and Debt
Today, the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer read, “U.S. college students buried under debt.” Are today’s young people just buying iPods and designer flip-flops instead of saving their cash for school? Are they too busy drinking five-dollar microbrews to get part-time jobs to pay for tuition? Let’s look at the numbers . . . [...]
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