2011 Robert Steele: Global Trends 2030 – Gaps + RECAP

UPDATE 11 December 2012:  The report is now out.  The below commentary was posted 12 December 2011, one year prior to the final report.  Global Trends 2030: Full Copy (166 Pages) Here, Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts Although Global Trends 2030 will not be released …

Review: A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures — A Workbook for Addressing the Global Problematique

Thomas R. Flannagan, Kenneth C. Bausch 2011 Workbook 49 Problems, 10 Clusters, & Software,July 22, 2011 This is a very reasonably priced workbook that can also be purchased in bulk (presumably at the standard 50% discount) from the publisher, and I certainly do recommend it as a toolkit for any level–undergraduate to postgraduate to professional–discussion …

Global Conversation on Internet Freedom

building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet@googlegroups.com YAY Bucky Fuller! Strangely enough, with all the nightmare scenario’s currently playing out, their corollary, our best dreams are also playing out. The stuff about being targeted and persecuted, shut-down etc. becomes irrelevant in the face of a few billion users who are able to leapfrog the existing infrastructure and communicate directly with one …

Panarchy-Not Anarchy-Future of Global Governance

Panarchy is “a useful way of thinking about cross-scale dynamics in complex adaptive systems.”  Source Panarchy, in modern terms, is both an emerging theory of local to global relations spanning all current disciplines (e.g. economics, political science, sociology), and a public intelligence concept that posits non-violent collective intelligence, with access to all true cost information, …