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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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Fuel – The Movie

“Fuel” is out. The documentary by biofuel pioneer and Veggie Van evangelist Josh Tickell, 11 years in the making, premiered in Seattle this past weekend. I just saw it. The timing, as the Big Three plead their case before government, is serendipitous. An indictment of how Detroit has mismanaged innovation (while Sweden, Germany and other [...]

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Quarterly Forecast: Sailing Rough Waters

My new quarterly forecast, for the 4th Quarter 2008, is now available. As a futurist speaker and writer I track a variety of events, trends and developments. This issue discusses the future of oil, the future of the workforce, and the future of the economy, with an eye toward anticipating the kind of environment a [...]

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Launch of Glen Hiemstra’s Quarterly Forecast

This week we launch a new series, in which Glen Hiemstra will present a “quarterly forecast.” This is intended to compliment and extend the annual Outlook. The first is for Q3 2008. The quarterly forecasts will be published in the Articles collection on the site. We’ll send notices to those who have signed up for [...]

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Simmons on oil in current environment

Matt Simmons, oracle of oil, on CNBC last Friday, July 12, 2008, in the midst of the banking melt down. The most interesting thing in this video is not what Simmons says, though he is more alarmed than usual, but rather how stunned the MSNBC crew appear to be. Most alarming though is the in-house [...]

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Matt Simmons Sees $300 Oil

I am always interested when Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, appears on the TV and comments on future oil prices. He is an oil analyst with a penchant for telling the truth rather than spinning either overly optimistic or pessimistic stories about peak oil (the day we will have used half the [...]

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21st Century Oil Scenarios from Shell

This just hit the web at OilDrum, news of new future scenarios from Shell. Known for their scenario work in the past, the CEO of Shell, Jeroen van der Veer, sent this memo to Shell employees, and released it on the Shell website. What does it say? That the energy picture is changing rapidly. Two [...]

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