Applying Integral Foresight

Applying Integral Foresight

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...

Holacracy, Literacies and Organisational Transformation

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...

Runaway Climate Change

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...

The End Is Nigh. Be Positive.

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...

From Blog to Broadsheet

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...

Take a break from Enviro-Economic ‘doom and gloom’

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...