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Entering the new year 2012
So, we are back. Had a wonderful holiday in Peru visiting Machu Picchu among other places. Truly an awe inspiring place, matched only by New Zealand’s south island, and parts of the Canadian Rockies for grandeur. We here at Futurist.com continue to work on getting the new site ready to launch. Given that we have [...]
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6 Global destinations to see before they are gone
Here is our list of six global destinations to see before they likely disappear beneath the waves of climate change. It is probable, say experts, that these places must be seen in the next 50-100 years or it will be too late. Even aggressive action to limit carbon and other emissions is unlikely to change [...]
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Future of Arctic Ice – 2011 Nearly Matched All-time Low
For some years now I’ve been sure to follow the summer-time story of ice in the Arctic Ocean, as tracked by the Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado. I began doing this after meeting a cold-weather engineer from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who alerted me both to the special dynamics of the [...]
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Keeping up with Carbon Nation
August 1st, 2011 was the DVD release of Peter Byck’s film Carbon Nation, a climate change solutions movie [that doesn't even care if you believe in climate change]. Now Carbon Nation is a nominee for the 21st annual Environmental Media Awards (EMA) in the documentary category! “The annual EMA Awards honor film and television personalities, [...]
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Carbon Nation – the Movie – Now on DVD and Recommended
Carbon Nation is now available on DVD and on most download and On Demand sites. This important, entertaining and hopeful documentary, produced by Peter Byck, is highly recommended by us here at Futurist.com. Read the press release here. Learn how to order the film here. I saw Carbon Nation this spring when Boeing sponsored a [...]
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The Truth About Climate Change
In a perfect world, people would rely on facts to uncover the truth. I don’t want climate change to be real, but I’m not going to ignore all of the statistics that tell me that it is. However, the problem that many people face is how to change not only their beliefs, but their entire [...]
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Carbon Nation a Great Film – Go See It.
Film director and producer Peter Byck watched An Inconvenient Truth some years ago and thought, “If that is the problem, what is the answer?” Thus began an odyssey now in its forth year to conceive, produce and now to show the new blockbuster documentary, Carbon Nation. The film opens today in San Francisco. Go see [...]
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Outlook 2011 Video
Here is our new video summarizing my Outlook 2011. I wrote the outlook at the beginning of the year and we posted the original on January 3. The written version with more detail, links to resources and a recap of how accurate our Outlook 2010 was can be found in our blog archives. After multiple [...]
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Focusing on our Future: Where We’re Going
This is a guest blog by Jean Brittingham. Focusing on the negative doesn’t work. It crushes creativity, quells innovation and makes it very difficult to find hope. It makes us feel as if we have less control over our situation. It builds fear. And fear breeds denial and resistance to the message as explained in [...]
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Striking a Balance: The Yin and Yang of Futuring
This is a guest blog by Brenda Cooper. As long as I’ve been alive, humanity has obsessed over its demise – at its own hands. In second grade, stern teachers sent me crawling under desks to avoid nuclear war (talk about a culture of fear – today has nothing on the sixties). Now we are [...]
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