Group items tagged

The GENI Initiative focuses on linking renewable energy resources around the world using international electricity transmission. Decades ago, visionary engineer Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller developed the World Game simulation, posing the question: How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone? Research shows that the premier global strategy is the interconnection of electric power networks between regions and continents into a global energy grid, with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources - a world wide web of electricity.

The Millennium Assessment focuses on how humans have altered ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local, national, or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to human well-being and poverty alleviation. 

WS M affords us all the opportunity to unite as One People, with One Voice, who together can bring about the transformation of our existing unsustainable world to a global society in which peace, sustainability, restorative justice and compassionate action are the everyday lived reality of all life on Earth.

We want to be one initiative of artists, scientists and the interested parties to build a global food network and make available to specify with the goal in mind every person on this planet a chance to eat free and healthy. We are one, divided by zero.

interactive visualization tech proposal for global resource base and environment

"Following an early career in the UK Department of Trade & Industry, Chris was a market regulator at the Association of Futures Brokers & Dealers, and then at the International Petroleum Exchange (latterly as a Director). At the IPE, he developed successful new trading mechanisms such as Exchange of Futures for Swaps; Volatility Trades; and Settlement Trades. Between 1998-2000, he founded and developed NewClear, a generic transaction confirmation concept, still widely used in global markets. Chris now works mainly in Scotland, with Nordic Enterprise Trust, to develop new partnership-based enterprise models, and related financial products and services. His work at ISRS is focused on a new generation of networked markets - which will, in Chris's view, necessarily be dis-intermediated, open decentralised and, therefore, resilient." (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isrs/about/fellows/ChrisCook)

WRI's goal is to reverse rapid degradation of ecosystems and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services.

COHAB is a community of individuals and organisations working together to address the gaps in awareness, policy and action on the links between biodiversity and human health and well-being. The Initiative supports efforts to enhance human security through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the goods and services it provides. COHAB provides a platform for dialogue, promoting understanding and experience sharing, and working to build partnerships across sectors and cultural divides.

Our international research programme takes up the challenge of exploring political solutions and novel, more effective governance systems to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of our planet.

Omnipedia - Thinking for Tomorrow was an electronic periodical published by International Futures Forum for three years from 2004 - 2006 (fourteen issues).