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CarbonFree Partner of Carbonfund.org
At Futurist.com we know that it takes a lot of travelling to fulfill all the duties of a world renowned speaker such as Glen. We have recently taken action to offset all of the carbon that his travelling produces in addition to offsetting the emissions of the rest of our business. Using the carbon calculator [...]
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10 Big Green Ideas
(With this blog entry we welcome Catherine Otten back to Futurist.com, where she is now Director of Communications and Programs. Catherine is particularly committed to ideas that improve the environment, so in addition to her administrative duties we look forward to future blog entries like this.) Newsweek recently ran an article (in their Oct. 25 [...]
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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 [...]
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Glacier Retreat in Time-Lapse
Impressive time-lapse film of glacier retreat, promoting an upcoming NOVA program which aired a year ago.
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What is Smart Growth
January was the hottest month on record (going back to 1880) in Seattle, some 7 degrees F above normal You can see the evidence in this photo of my Iris’s that I just took. Kind of messes up the notion that because it was cold on the East Coast this year that global warming must [...]
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The Prince and The Frog
The Prince and the Frog – it’s not what you think. Prince Charles envites you to embrace the frogs, and in doing so save the tropical rain forest. It’s not a fairy tale, but an SOS to save a crucial part of the planet, upon which we all depend. The rainforests, where these frogs live, [...]
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World on FiRe – Notes & Impressions from FiRe 2009
Last week included four eventful days at the annual Future In Review conference put on by the Strategic News Service. This year, the last at the San Diego Del Coronado was the best of the five I have attended, of the eight that have been held. (full disclosure – I am on the planning committee [...]
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The Future of Insurance, a futurist speaker program by Glen Hiemstra
On March 6, 2009 I had the opportunity to present a keynote on the future of insurance for Explore Information Services, a unit of USIS. This was a meeting of their advisory forum, a group of about thirty North American insurance companies that focus on property and automobile insurance. My job was to think with [...]
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One Thousand Years is not Enough
In 1999 and 2000 I had the privilege of helping to lead three retreat-like gatherings called Humanity 3000, in which scientists and international thought leaders asked a simple question: “What will it take for humanity to survive for another 1000 years?” Sponsored by the Foundation for the Future, the reports of those sessions can be [...]
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Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra: Outlook 2009
Outlook 2009 Watch the video of my Outlook for 2009 as a futurist, speaker, and consultant. This is my final blog entry of 2008, before we take a couple of weeks off. I am cautiously optimistic about 2009. This may surprise you. Here is why. Future of EEE – Economy, Energy, Environment Economy: When I [...]
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