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When Visions of the Future Turn Negative

Later this week, on April 15, 2011, I will be doing presentations to the World Foresight Forum event in The Hague, Netherlands. On that day I will be part of a panel entitled Roadmaps for a Shared Future, where we will discuss envisioning alternative futures in the context of the “Gross National Happiness Index” as [...]

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Building Integrated Transportation Systems

Vision 2050 was a U.S. effort to envision an integrated transportation system, produced by the U.S. Department of Transportation System in 2001. I wrote about that effort, in which I had a small role, recently. The blog Green Joyment picked up on that piece recently in an article by Lisa Carey. She notes that we [...]

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Podcast of Glen Hiemstra Keynote on Systems Change

In mid-October 2009 I gave a closing keynote speech to the 2009 Institute for Oral Health conference on defining quality. They had asked me to address the question of how one goes about promoting systems change. The podcast of my talk is now available here. To provide some insight on making systems change, I went [...]

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Google Alerts for Futurist Glen Hiemstra

Showed up in google news alerts twice this week… The first one, two actually, refers to a program that I helped to create with well known stress and anxiety expert Lucinda Bassett. She has developed and now has a available a 5-CD program called “The Solution .” I collaborated on the first CD in the [...]

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Hope

The U.S. economy lost 250,000 jobs in October. But a corner was turned on November 4, election day. What did the election mean? More than anything, three fundamental mind shifts: 1. A reawakening of hope for the future. Since 2001, and to some extent even before I have witnessed a loss of faith in the [...]

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