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Climate Science Video – Is it Convincing?
As we watched the last days of the Olympics the past few days, I zeroed in on television ads sponsored by the American Oil & Gas industry – lots of these ads – and by the American coal industry. Both emphasized, with patriotic overtones, how important they are to creating jobs, and to achieving national [...]
Full StoryBack to the Future Transportation
One of the amusing, and sad, things about discussions of the future of transit in the U.S. is that it is so often discussed in one of two ways, both intended to make it seem rather outlandish. First, it is discussed as something vaguely foreign – sure, they have widespread transit in Europe, but we [...]
Full StoryEnergy in a box
The Bloom Box is the talk of the day, after the break out on 60-Minutes yesterday. This is a new fuel cell approach, already in use in some larger scale test operations, such as providing 15% of EBay’s electric needs. Very encouraging, if the mass-production costs are realistic. Not a lot of technical details are [...]
Full StoryA transportation vision
One of the most interesting people trying to invent the future of transportation is Dan Sturges. An original developer of the GEM electric vehicle, more recently Dan has been a leader at Intrago Mobility, which is promoting a whole-systems approach to transportation. Recently he spoke to a SMART conference, in this 10-minute overview of the [...]
Full StoryJob outlook improving
The U.S economy lost 20,000 jobs in January 2010, compared to a colossal loss of nearly 800,000 in January 2009. This is what progress looks like.
Full StoryAtlanta 2050 – The Fifty Forward Program of ARC
One of the most far-looking programs I’ve been part of in the past couple of years is Metro Atlanta Fifty Forward, which a project of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). Today google news alerts picked up an update on their project, which continues through this year. ARC describes it this way, What will metro Atlanta [...]
Full StoryHaiti – How to Help
Update Jan. 17 – Visual Journalist David Ryder offers free print for those who donate – generous offer and all-around good idea. Thanks David. Give here. earthquake devastation in Haiti is foremost on our minds. Here is a recommended way to help, via Doctors without Borders. The need for medical help is most urgent. Go [...]
Full StoryOutlook 2010, by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist, Speaker
Outlook 2010, by Glen Hiemstra I recorded this outlook for 2010 on December 30, 2009. I decided this year to look at five areas. Here is the video. (Video Production: David Ryder, ryderpictures.com) Aging The first is demographic. I think that the biggest story of 2010 is the aging society, which will fly under the [...]
Full StoryThe City of Destiny and a New Generation
I had an enjoyable day yesterday, speaking at the 125th Anniversary Celebration of the Tacoma Pierce County Chamber. Beginning with a trip back to Tacoma’s boisterous past as the self-named “City of Destiny,” the luncheon finished up with a video of upcoming business leaders, including representatives from the Port of Tacoma, the University of Washington-Tacoma, [...]
Full StoryRainforest SOS Campaign is Launched
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the Prince’s Rainforest Project. (see The Prince and the Frog). Their SOS Campaign launches today. Slowing rainforest depletion is imperative. As the project website states: “If we lose the battle against tropical deforestation, we lose the battle against climate change.” Futurist.com has joined the business community in partnering [...]
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