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Recently my futurist friend Gerd Leonhard from Basel, Switzerland and I started a new project together called Where is it Going (WIIG). The concept is simple – we record an online conversation about once a week, taking future-related questions submitted anyone, via Twitter. We...

I’ve been reading a popular old book, Blue Highways, by William Least Heat Moon (1982). This is the story of his long driving tour of the U.S., keeping to “blue highways” (or two-lane roads) and small towns. At one point he gets lost (more...

This is just a quick note to alert you to two currently available articles that feature quotes from me, noted for me by Google news alerts. The first is actually about China and the Beijing Olympics, “Beijing results serve food for thought,” which appears...

One the most unusual and enjoyable jobs I have had as a futurist came in late winter this year, for Proctor & Gamble Beauty, a job which I did via DeVries Public Relations of New York. DeVries was recently named the Consumer PR firm...

The City of Seattle reported that its on-target to its Kyoto goals. That is fabulous. There’s a conference of Mayor’s meeting there this week that includes other global warming luminaries as well (Clinton/.Gore – sound like a ticket to you? And perhaps they are...