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Nick Turner, GBN's London-based co-president, describes how scenario planning is a key to "Futureproofing Your Organisation," in the CEO Journal.



GBN Chairman Peter Schwartz  was the keynote speaker at the National Institute of Mental Health's Director's Innovation Speaker Series in October. His topic: "The Next Scientific Revolution."

Peter will also be a panelist at a special Commonwealth Club event  on "Offshore Oil: Drilling Ourselves into the Next Generation or an Environmental Catastrophe?" in Lafayette, CA on Nov. 13. Energy, and more specifically, the debate about peak oil, was the focus of Peter's provocative comments at the Cleantech Forum in Washington, D.C. in Septmeber.

Watch Peter debate Harvard historian Niall Ferguson (Author, The War of the World and Empire) on the trajectory of human progress at the Long Now Foundation's April Seminar on Long Term Thinking.



The Colbert Report lampoons GBN's scenarios on the Future of Arctic Navigation.



Welcome to two new GBNers! Florian Klein, who holds a Ph.D. in environmental economics, joins GBN's European operations in Madrid. Practice Associate Hyuk "Sam" Lee (B.S. in bioengineering) recently relocated to San Francisco from Monitor's Seoul office.



View all six episodes of the 1997 BBC series, "How Buildings Learn" based on the groundbreaking book by GBN cofounder Stewart Brand.



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2003 GBN Scenario Book
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Scenario Thinking
A COSE/GBN Special Report
Science and Technology
What might the future of U.S. healthcare look like from the perspective of small businesses?
Science and Technology | Scenario Thinking | Economics
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Visionary perspectives on the future, culminating in an optimistic scenario. Commissioned by the SCI FI Channel, with a foreward by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Science and Technology | Scenario Thinking
A scenario project with the Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
Environment and Sustainability
Four scenarios contemplating the wide-ranging effects that continued climate change could have on Arctic waterways in the future.
Environment and Sustainability | Scenario Thinking
Environment and Sustainability
Listen to live recordings of GBN in Conversation, a speakers series in which leading thinkers, visionaries, and experts from the GBN Network and beyond offer their unique insights and perspectives on global issues and uncertainties.
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GBN Global Business Network
Narrated by GBN CEO Eamonn Kelly, "Forces of the Future" is a Flash animation exploring 10 trends that are creating, even transforming, our future.
A Conversation with Peter Schwartz
Science and Technology
In this interview with Ernst & Young, Peter Schwartz opines on the short-term future of clean tech from business, investment, and technology perspectives.
Science and Technology | Scenario Thinking

Developing and Using Scenarios  
March 2-5: London; May 11-15 and Oct. 26-30, Berkeley, CA
London and California


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Welcome to new Network member Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the U.S. Currently, Mimi splits her time between Keio University and the University of Southern California and is conducting a multi-year research project on digital kids and informed learning. She recently edited a book for MIT Press with Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda entitled Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Mimi received doctorates in both anthropology and education from Stanford.



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May, 2006 Newsletter edited by Stewart Brand

Shadow Cities
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
Robert Neuwirth

Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and The Fate of Humanity
James Lovelock

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