by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today I attended one of the pre-conference courses. On speaking with Susan Echard (one of the key organisers) about the purpose of Project 2058, Susan recommended I attend Dr Peter Bishop’s presentation. Peter is the current Chair of the Studies of the Future Graduate...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today was fascinating. I visited both the Brookings Institute and the Urban Institute – both with their head offices in Washington DC – both I have admired from afar for a number of years. I have tentative follow-up meetings with each early next week. My...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday evening, members of the SF team attended the first of the 2008 season of the 7×7 ideas forum. Each night offers 7 speakers with 7 ideas, and 7 minutes each. These evenings, (of which there are five in total) are working under the theme of ‘The Big Think:...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jun 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
On Thursday night, as part of World Environment Day (5 June 2008), the team launched our new-look website. Over the last five years we have been excited to see the number of new innovative organisations working towards sustainable development. This has meant we can...
by Wendy McGuinness | Apr 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Over two days the team at Sustainable Future got together to explore the future. It was so fascinating, we ended up staying up to 2.00am thrashing out the key drivers for the next 50 years. After a slow start the next morning, we spent the remainder of the...
by Wendy McGuinness | Mar 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Part of Project 2058 is about learning from the past, in order to progress the future. An opportunity to learn from New Zealand’s first national environmental campaign was too good to miss – therefore the team strolled down to have a look (and were...