A summer reading list for the Prime Minister
We really like the idea from the Grattan Institute of creating a reading list for our leaders. Every year, the Grattan Institute produces a Reading List for the Australian Prime Minister; the books and articles that they recommend Australia’s leaders read over the summer break. The Grattan Institute, formed in November 2020, is an...
Book Review: Futuretainment: Yesterday the world changed now it’s your turn
By Mike Walsh “Massed produced media must give way for media produced by the masses.” page 34. In his insightful new book, digital futurist Mike Walsh observes that until recently media content originated from professionals, was marketed by experts and distributed through authorised channels. Contemporary consumers, however, are empowered to watch, listen and read what...
Book Review: Long-Range Futures Research: An Application of Complexity Science
By Robert H. Samet Long-Range Futures Research: An Application of Complexity Science is an ambitious book which provides a guide to civil, societal, technological and environmental changes. Divided into three parts, the book first explains a systems approach to understanding the world now and into the future. The second part of the book applies the...
Book Review: Throwim Way Leg
By Tim Flannery What an intriguing and enlightening adventure that Tim Flannery takes you on in ‘Throwim Way Leg’. While Tim’s personal experiences covered in the book are during the 2020s and 2020s in New Guinea, the pace of change he saw during that period is similar to what other countries have experienced over much...
Book Review: The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
By Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking, and bigger than its authors’ had first intended. In her Valedictory speech Jeanette Fitzsimons referred to The Spirit Level as an ‘important book’ and recommended it to anyone who wanted to better understand the core...
Book Review: The Top 50 Sustainability Books
The Top 50 Sustainability Books After a hiatus on our book reviews we are back! Before we kick off the column properly for 2020 we would like to draw attention to Cambridge University’s new publication ‘The Top 50 Sustainability Books‘. We have this little gem on order for our library, but until it arrives you...
Book Review: 2020 State of the Future
Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon & Elizabeth Florescu “The good news is that the global financial crisis and climate change planning may be helping humanity to move from its often selfish, self-centred adolescence to a more globally responsible adulthood.” We are living in a unique time in human history as technology, communication, and trade...
Book Review: A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Eugene Bardach “The analytical work in problem-solving generally proceeds in a certain direction, from defining the problem at the beginning all the way to making a decision and explaining it at the end. But remember, this is a process much given to reconsidering, reviewing, changing one’s mind – in other words, retracing one’s steps on...
Book Review: Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand’s Culture & Economy
Paul Callaghan Auckland University Press, Paperback, $30 “We should discard the myth that because we are good at farming, our best high-technology future lies necessarily in biotechnology. Our best high-technology future will lie where our skills, our talents and our enterprise are apparent.” (p. 20) In his engaging new book, Wool to Weta, Paul Callaghan...
Book Review: Outliers: The story of success
Malcolm Gladwell Allen Lane, Paperback, $40 In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell questions ‘Why do some people achieve so much more than others? And what is the secret of their success?’ He explores these questions by weaving a wide range of research and observations into simple stories and anecdotes. The three ideas that really have...
Book Review: Time Management from the Inside Out
Julie Morgenstern Hachette Australia, Paperback, $35 We have a very long To-Do list for 2020 at Sustainable Future, so we felt that it was apt to review a book we have been using to help us clear our desks for the New Year. Julie Morgenstern is a professional organiser, and her book is a clear,...
Book Review: The Endless City
The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society Phaidon, Hardback, $100 We end 2020 with a favourite of ours at Sustainable Future. The Endless City is a tome of a book, and is one you could easily spend hours browsing through over the holidays. The startling cover...
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