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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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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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4 Trends that will Drive the Next Economy
This is a guest blog by Jean Brittingham. I’ve been a little behind on blogging because we are working feverishly on our book—The SmartGirls’ Way. It’s very exciting to see it coming together. In the book we discuss the characteristics, strengths and success stories of women entrepreneurs and the critical role that women will play [...]
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If You Want to Design Consumer Shift – Let the Women Do It!
This is a guest blog by Jean Brittingham. Over the past few years, there has been a ‘quickening’ in the world of women as it relates to the health and future of our planet. This awakening has fuelled the emergence of grassroots communities as well as the significant increase in entrepreneurial activity among women that [...]
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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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Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving into the Future
I was born in the beautiful state of Idaho, and lived there the first decade of my life. Consequently, I always look forward to opportunities to work with consulting clients in Idaho as I feel an affinity for the place. This year one of my major projects involved assisting the State of Idaho Transportation Department [...]
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Design Futurist
The future of fashion is no longer just about how you look; it’s about how your clothes were made and what materials were used in the process. Natalia Allen was appalled by the practices of the fashion industry. “We’ve been taught to design recklessly,” she said. “We move from season to season, reverie to reverie, [...]
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Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery: Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q2 2009
By Glen Hiemstra, March 31, 2009 The world economy, mired in recession, will reach a turn-around point sooner than expected. However, anyone waiting to get back to doing what they were doing before the recession will be disappointed. As I said in my first speech this year, on January 8, 2009, to the Cobalt company, [...]
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Future of Cities: Atlanta Fifty Forward
The Atlanta Regional Commission is the regional governance organization for Atlanta and surrounding counties. I first met them in the 1990’s when they invited me to assist in a project called Atlanta Vision 2020. In 2007, I assisted their Board and management in a long-range planning retreat. Later that year the ARC kicked off a [...]
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