Browsing the archives for the change tag

23 Aug 11

Imagining a World of Sustainable Abundance

Today  is January 29, 2055.   It’s a crisp sunny afternoon in Asheville North Carolina where we’re gathered at the home of Miguel Jose Rodriguez. Miguel turns 100 years old today. He’s sitting right over there. I  know you can’t believe this spry looking gentlemen wearing a crisply ironed guayabera and sipping a locally produced beer [...]

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12 Sep 10

End of THE Future

  In the introduction to his latest book, It’s your Future…Make it a Good One, my friend and fellow futurist, Verne Wheelwright offers one of the most succinct explanations of the difference between prediction and foresight. It’s so good that I thought it would be useful to share here.  In the 1950s and 1960s, think [...]

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11 Aug 10

Getting Them to Listen

Ask any self respecting social change agent about their issue and they will quickly drown you in data. They can reel off facts on how pervasive the problem is today, how fast it is growing, what segments of the population are at greatest risk, and most importantly, the exact date the problem will become an [...]

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