UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – Futures Dialogues 2008

Shaping Tomorrow

A friend of mine emailed me a link to this site, and I thought you might find it interesting. Shaping Tomorrow helps people and organisations better anticipate and respond to upcoming change, by setting out to help review critical uncertainties, challenges and trends....
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – Futures Dialogues 2008

Pathways to Sustainability Workshop

On Tuesday 9th September 2008 a workshop ‘Pathways to Sustainability, What Matters Most to New Zealanders’ was held at the Royal Society Lecture Theatre, co-sponsored by Anew NZ and Statistics New Zealand and facilitated by Leanne Holdsworth and Glen...
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – Futures Dialogues 2008

Hard Work

Friday saw Wendy participating in a Plenary discussion of the annual Human Resources Institute New Zealand conference. The theme for the whole conference was Sustainability, and every effort was made by the Institute to ‘walk the talk’. Details such as...
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – Futures Dialogues 2008

7X7 – Seven Imaginations

Tuesday, 26 August saw the final evening of the 7X7 Ideas Forum. Wendy decided to use her 7 minutes to discuss a few insights she had whilst attending the World Future Conference in Washington D.C. The theme of the evening was Seven Imaginations, a perfect complement...
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – Futures Dialogues 2008

Return to the UN

My second visit was of a more general nature in that I was a tourist. I spent about three hours in the main building and the bookstore – which was superb. I have added some pictures of the sculptures at the front of the building (see above) as they gave me a...