Sustainable Future links with International Futurist Organisations
Earlier this month in Boston, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Millennium Project and the Sustainable Future Institute which establishes the Institute as the New Zealand Node of the Millennium Project. The Millennium Project is an independent, not-for-profit futures think tank, contributed to by futurists, scholars, business planners and policymakers. It is known...
Report on the State of New Zealand’s Future
While Wendy was in Boston she presented this report at the World Futures Conference. [slideshare id=4769187&doc=sustainablefutureinstitute14july2010finalforweb-100716005146-phpapp01&type=d] To download this report or see more presentations please visit the presentations page on our website.
Wendy at the World Futures Conference
Wendy is off to the States for the 2010 World Futures Conference in Boston where she will be presenting on our Project 2058 progress and getting in touch with some of the foremost futures thinkers in the world. Today she got a look at the 2010 State of the Future Report. We will be updating...
Millennium Project Committee Meeting – Day 2
Today I presented to the committee on the activities of the Australia and New Zealand node, which included discussing the following three points: Supporting the Annual Global MP Delphi In 2010, developing an ANZ Delphi (now creating a database of 100 remarkable people in the region) Promoting and lobbying for Parliamentary Committees for the Future....
Millennium Project Committee Meeting – Day 1
Hi. I am now in Chicago. The World Futures Conference starts this Friday. Prior to the Conference proper, representatives from each of the nodes of the Millennium Project meet in advance to share information and discuss the next steps. I was fortunate to be asked to represent the Australasian node, as both the two co-chairs,...
One more day.
Well it’s the last day, and I am sorry to see it come to the close. Today is what is called the Professional Members Forum, titled: Global Futures Projects: Innovations and Outcomes. Thankfully there were no more hard choices to make as the programme was set. Particpants had dropped down to about 50 and we...
Monday: the last day of the formal proceedings, except …
Today there were so many presentations I wanted to attend (9.00-10-30) and they were apparently all fabulous. We all met up for coffee and the room was abuzz. People in particular to Google include: Medard Gabel (Big Picture Consulting); Jerome Glen and Theodore J Gordon (The State of the Future Report, The Millennium Project); Stacey Aldrich, Les Gottsman,...
Into the heavy stuff
Today I attended a presentation by Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA, who was fascinating, but I was out of my depth. He is clearly a brilliant man who has an extremely good grasp of technology. Much of his thinking will feed into ‘7×7’ in August and the scenario work. After morning tea I...
The Conference Begins…
Tonight the conference began properly with the Opening Plenary. The key speakers were Edie Weiner, co-author of FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change, and Bill Drayon, a founder of Ashoka and former assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington D.C. I was particularly impressed by Edie who was, as one...
