Last fall, Australia became the first country in the world to elect a Global Warming Prime Minister. Australians, who are feeling the heat of global warming with the longest drought in their country’s… [more]

The future looks bright, at least to the Awakening Consumer. Despite looming problems like the recession, Peak Oil and the outcome of the election, this issue’s survey found that Awakening… [more]

The following ten trends are currently among the most pressing in the minds of Awakening Consumers. We will be highlighting the topics that we think will have the greatest impact on Awakening Consumers… [more]

With the world entering a recession, how will the green movement fare? Is green, in fact, essential to how business must be done in this century, or is it just another luxury?

Mark Kelleher is the Managing Director of Roaring 40s—a joint venture between internationally renowned energy companies Hydro Tasmania and CLP Power Asia. Roaring… [more]

Jamais Cascio is a writer, ethical futurist and co-founder of WorldChanging. He also blogs at Open the Future. He is a Global Futures Strategist for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, a… [more]

The future does not exist, obviously. The past is another story. It doesn’t exist either, but we confuse it with memories that do. The present is a very slim organic sandwich of two non-existent… [more]

In the children’s book “If the World Were a Village,” David Smith suggests we imagine the world as a village of 100 people. This construct is helpful when we consider the role… [more]

When I was a little kid, I’d let the water run like it was going out of style. This pained my conscientious, compost-happy parents, who would barge into the bathroom and turn the faucet off… [more]

This morning, my teenage step-daughter declared she was going to take the school bus for the remainder of her senior year in high school: “The cost of gas is too high to waste MY money driving… [more]