Diagnosis

Last week I was in Portland with 150 others at LAUNCH – a collaboration between Nike, NASA, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US State Department that accelerates new solutions for a better world. This was ...

Forum - Blog - Stephanie Draper - 10/05/2013 - 9:23am - 0 comments

A silvery robot whirrs towards you proferring a red pill and a glass of water to wash it down with. You take the pill, and it throws you thirty years into the future. So began a futures workshop in Lima recently, a part of the Rockefeller ...

Forum - Blog - James Goodman - 29/04/2013 - 4:22pm - 1 comment

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Green Futures - Article - tess riley - 23/04/2013 - 9:15am - 0 comments

200 years ago, tea cost £100 per pound (about half a kilo). It was so expensive that only the upper class could drink it and they kept it under lock and key, so the likes of you and me couldn’t get their grubby mits on it. Not only that but it helped ...

Forum - Blog - Ann-Marie Brouder - 23/04/2013 - 6:09pm - 0 comments

Let’s start with the paradox. The concept of sustainability is simple – the capacity for continuance. However, the means of achieving this end state is complex and difficult.  As a minimum the journey to sustainability requires businesses to respond ...

Forum - Blog - Sally Uren - 16/04/2013 - 6:36pm - 1 comment

If you’re a regular visitor to this site or attend any of our events, you’ll have heard us talk about our strategy for creating significant change – ‘system innovation’. This strategy is all about finding the levers that shift whole systems rather than ...

Forum - Blog - Anna Birney - 22/04/2013 - 6:01pm - 0 comments

Not content with measuring your health and fitness? Well your home's health is up next. There are numerous projects appearing that provide multiple sensors to detect everything from moisture to light and pollution. Cube sensors ( ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 03/04/2013 - 3:30pm - 0 comments

Not only will the robots steal our jobs but they will fill the skies and watch our every move. At least that is what Domestic Drone Countermeasures, LLC is hoping people will think. They are planning to sell commercial anti-drone ...

Forum - Blog - Hugh Knowles - 03/04/2013 - 3:33pm - 0 comments

In 2012-13 Forum for the Future worked together with Ecover to build their long-term innovation portfolio and develop a road-map for its implementation. We called this collaborative and co-generative project ...

Forum - Project - Anonymous - 04/04/2013 - 11:43am - 0 comments

In our fourth blog exploring the products and services the UK consumer of 2030 could be using, we imagine how two consumers of the future - Serena Patel and her daughter Zainab, 13 – could be using water in twenty years’ time… ...

Forum - Blog - Sarah Tulej - 08/04/2013 - 9:37pm - 0 comments

How can 9.5 billion people live well with the resources of one planet? This is how we think about sustainability at the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) where we have a mission to accelerate business-led innovation to improve quality of life and ...

Forum - Blog - Anonymous - 21/03/2013 - 5:20pm - 0 comments

Here are some uncomfortable (but compelling) words: “We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we ...

Forum - Blog - Jonathon Porritt - 26/02/2013 - 8:05pm - 2 comments

Peter Bakker, the CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, likes to warm up his audiences by reminding them that there are still more than a thousand coal-fired power stations either in construction or formally consented. Yes, ...

Forum - Blog - Jonathon Porritt - 20/02/2013 - 7:21pm - 0 comments

Global sales of mobile phones fell in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to a report from research company Gartner. It said 1.75 billion handsets had been bought, marking a 1.7% decline. Analysts at the firm suggested "tough economic ...

Forum - Blog - Geraldine Gilbert - 20/03/2013 - 5:20pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 07/12/2012 - 10:15am - 0 comments

Are you trying to create a sustainable value chain, but you're bit stuck on what to do, where to start, or not entirely sure what it would look like? Try these tips from our network event ‘Building sustainable value chains’... ...

Forum - Blog - Ann-Marie Brouder - 30/11/2012 - 11:51am - 0 comments

Do you pretty much ‘get’ sustainability, but still struggle to know what the implications are for your business, and how to make it part of normal business planning? You’re far from alone. If you’ve followed our work with the Technology Strategy ...

Forum - Blog - n.conway@forumf... - 21/11/2012 - 10:49am - 0 comments

Close your eyes.  Think hard.  Can you come up with an example of a sustainable value chain?  A set of relationships and processes that delivers goods and services to market, where the economic benefits accrue equally to all organisations, where ...

Forum - Blog - Sally Uren - 01/10/2012 - 12:50pm - 0 comments

Some excellent holiday reading! First up, “2052: A Global Forecast for the next forty years”.  This is written by my good friend Jorgen Randers, one of the original authors of the MIT’s “Limits to Growth” blockbuster back in 1972.  So, forty ...

Forum - Blog - Jonathon Porritt - 26/09/2012 - 11:27am - 1 comment

To feed the world’s population in 2030, experts predict that we’ll need 30% more fresh water than we do today. A recent exhibition at Science Museum , Water Wars , has hunted down some embryonic and exciting solutions, including; Fog ...

Forum - Blog - Alison Freeman - 14/09/2012 - 9:15am - 0 comments