Late last year I remembered that I was a member of the Shaping Tomorrow Ning group – the largest collection of futures orientated thinkers and actors in the world – and was responsible for the Integral Foresight group… very little activity I’m...
Over the last couple of years I’ve had several people point me towards a new “breakthrough” “amazing” “truly integral” “third tier” approach to organisational design and management: Holacracy. The implication was...
Well, whether you believe human’s cause or significantly contributes to climate change or not, the evidence is starting to pour in that not only is change occurring – above our long term averages – but that it is also accelerating. In the past weeks...
Futurist, social commentator, academic and general rabble rouser Dr Richard Eckersley (director of Australia 21, a non-profit, public-interest research company, and a visiting fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian...
Two of our writers here at Futuristics [ed: the blog these old posts came from] have had opinion pieces published recently in Victoria’s Age newspaper. Josh Floyd today draws an adroit and principle based line to argue for a social morality foundation to...
The Age today carries a truly inspiring story of what many might now consider “getting it right” with balancing the economy, the environment and society generally. Or in a word, a viable sustainability. Vaxjo in Sweden started heading for fossil fuel...