“Houston, we have a problem” – James Lovell, Apollo 13 “Work the problem people, work the problem” Gene Krause, Mission Control Apollo 13 Hurricane Harvey was a huge disaster. More than 60 people lost their lives. There is and will be hundreds of billions of dollars in damages and lost business. My deepest sympathies […]
Earth Day is coming. April 22 to be exact. How I know is my email inbox. Every day for the past few weeks I get pitches to write about some company’s new eco product. The words LEED certified, Eco, Green, Recycled, Renewable have become an endless blur in the subject line of in-bound emails. This […]
As a futurist, I look at long term trends and waves of history. The three waves of history we know have been the Agricultural Age, the Industrial Age and the Information Age. The first age began some 10,000 years ago when man first began to literally put down roots. The second age began some 250 […]
Thanksgiving is, in many ways, the truest of holidays. It is not connected to a religion or to a national political event. It is about giving thanks and sharing life’s abundance, manifested by a large meal to be shared by friends and family. Giving thanks for all the wonderfulness of this planet. On Thanksgiving day […]
The impact that humanity is having on climate change is directly related to the fact that there are so many of us. Add on top of our shear numbers the fact that we treat the planet harshly and it is clear why we are moving toward a global crisis. Consider some facts about the growth […]
About a month ago, I wrote a post entitled ‘Water’. In it I suggested that water would become an increasingly precious resource in the southwestern U.S. and that disputes would occur between states and other regulatory entities over rights to the water of the Colorado River. It was therefore no surprise to see a huge […]
There was an article the other day in the paper with the headline “Phoenix Plans 24-Lane Highwayâ€. The article described the plan to widen a two mile stretch of Interstate 10 in Phoenix to 24 lanes. In each direction there would be six general purpose lanes, two high-occupancy lanes and then four lanes for local […]
So, today we are now a country of 300 million people facing an uncertain future together. What are the issues that we will have to deal with as a country as our population grows from this number, and what can we anticipate as we look at global population growth? The United States currently has an […]
Tomorrow, October 17, 2006 will be the day when the population of the United States of America will become 300 million. It will most likely get a lot of coverage, as round, big numbers always have a fascination for the media. In and of itself it is a non-event, as why is the 300 millionth […]
