Author: Timothy Wilken

The following in a summary and introduction to: Gaian Democracies: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power, by Roy Madron and John Jopling, published by Green Books. Roy Madron & John Jopling In […]

Roy Madron & John Jopling Over the past 50 years, systems thinkers have become increasingly influential in every field of human endeavour – from astronomy to agriculture, from economics to […]

The time for co-Operation is now. With the end of oil, we humans must reinvent ourselves and become a 1000 times more efficient. … Peak Oil expert Richard Duncan is […]

This is a followup to an earlier essay. … We humans are the only form of life capable of understanding. Our ability to understand means that when we  made an error, we […]

Buckminster Fuller taught that a positive future for humanity would require that we do ‘more with less’. He coined the term “Dymaxion” to represent this concept of maximum efficiency. …The following […]

I found an excellent argument for  total  disarmament which  serves as followup to my reposting of the SafeEARTH series: 1) Beyond Crime and Punishment  2) What Hitler didn’t Know 3) […]

The following article is reposted from the Los Angeles Times. Margaret Wertheim Pick a crisis—any crisis—the world is facing today: civil war, famine, AIDS, malaria, land mines. All pale in […]

It’s later than you think! The focus of Future Positive is and always has been the positive. What is right with humanity? How can we work together to make our […]

The following article is forwarded by Ecopilgrim. She writes: “Gerry Agnew runs a mini stock market report on the Energy Resources list.  Due to Labor Day and holiday closure, Gerry makes […]