*Greta Thunberg at a recent climate conference Greta Thunberg has become the leading voice of her generation globally on the climate crisis. The Swedish teenager simply cuts through the double talk of government and business leaders on the urgency of what humanity faces Here is the link to one of the many news reports […]
We are all aware of the current inflation situation. The financial press has spent months wondering if the inflation we are experiencing is short-term or a more insidious longer-term trend. I have been, and still am, of the opinion that it is short-term and will ease in 2022, significantly. We are in a perfect […]
The three-word sentence that is everywhere in the United States In September I made a short trip to Chicago and this sentence was everywhere. I stayed in a hotel in the River North neighborhood, a short walk from Michigan Avenue and the surrounding shopping district. [For those that don’t know Chicago, Michigan Avenue is Chicago’s […]
In a recent column I wrote that we have left the time of denial and entered the time of disconnection. It is completely clear to anyone who is aware that something has changed with the climate. As someone who has, through writings and speeches, been a target of climate change deniers, this year has been […]
Readers know that I am involved with The Sarasota Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank. Along with Philip Kotler, Jason Apollo Voss I co-founded the Institute back in 2017 with a vision of creating something new, exciting, and influential by 2020. Last year I became the Managing Director. The Sarasota Institute is not a […]
If you have consumed any news media in the past few weeks, you know we have entered a climate crisis that is deadly real. It can no longer be denied. Here are just a few of the stories of this summer: the IPCC of the UN have issued the most comprehensive report on climate change […]
“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment… Humanity is in a final exam as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in the Universe.” – R. Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion Fuller wrote this back in 1969, an incredibly […]
Go for a drive of any length through any urban or suburban neighborhood and the signs are everywhere: “Hiring!” “Now hiring!” “Jobs available” I am sure most readers have had this same experience in the last 45 days. Now that the states are opening up, it seems like every company is looking for employees. The […]
Congratulations Sir Richard Branson on your first flight into space, on your own spacecraft! It was a childhood dream made real. That seemed to be your key message to those on earth; that if someone from the boomer generation could go from childhood cardboard to the creation of private space travel, what can the generations […]
Starting in Spring 2020 I suggested that if COVID-19 lasted, in first and second wave, a year, that this year would trigger some five year’s worth of change, and it has. Once it became clear that reality had changed, our lives and most aspects of them would experience accelerated change and transformation. We are now […]
