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LIMITS TO GROWTH: the 30-year update |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 08 March 2005 |
 Humanity was last at sustainable levels in the 1980s, says the new update of the famous Limits to Growth study sponsored by the Club of Rome.
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world will experience overshoot and collapse in global resource use and
emissions similar to the dot.com bubble, but on a much longer time
scale. The growth phase will be welcomed and celebrated:
the collapse will arrive very suddenly, much to everyone’s surprise.”
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 March 2005 )
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
If networks are the organising form of life, including social life, why
is it only in recent years that networks have come to the forefront of
social practice?, asks Manuel Castells of UCLA. "Why the network
society now?" He believes the answer is in the development of
microelectronics and software-based communication technologies.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 )
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Can ancient keys unlock the future? |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
Networks are all abuzz with all the buzz about networks. Whether it's
finding out how to improve the learning of organisations, or mobilising
‘smart mobs' of activists with SMS and webcast technologies, leading
thinkers in science, government, management, education and elsewhere
are busy exploring the nature and behaviour of networks. To understand
networks, they say, will be to understand the future.
In all the excitement, it would be easy to overlook the fact that many
of the lessons we are learning today are not really new. But as
evolution biologist Elisabet Sahtouris told Futures Foundation members
in Sydney in June (see Future News July), we still have much to learn.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 )
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
While humans clearly have the capacity for great intelligence and rapid
learning, story after story highlights just how slow we are to learn
some of the things that matter most. Is it because we are excluding too
much from our tunnel vision? Would it help to slow down a bit? Does
this idea mesh with an emerging global resistance to the speed and
complexity of modern life in the west? Can we take a leap of the
imagination into a future "Creative Australia", once more the Timeless
Land?
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 December 2004 )
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
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How will we live? Possible futures for housing in Australia were canvassed at a Sydney workshop in a bid to identify emerging trends and technologies in building construction that will change the way we live by 2025. Some of the ideas canvassed included the concept of smart homes in smart communities… bidding for scarce natural resources…. Aussie kids learning Chinese at school…. automated local community management of energy…. onsite capture and treatment of water…. nano-coatings for thermal control…. smaller dwellings, factory produced to superfine tolerances to withstand extreme weather…. cultural imperialism shifting from Hollywood to Beijing… |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 December 2004 )
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