| CONTENT |
| Lead Article The Critical Path Model By Leif Thomas Olsen, Master of Philosophy & Master of International Relations Article 01 Project Susthiti A healing initiative to help Covid healthcare workers with Yoga & Music Therapy By Arnab Bishnu Chowdhury The Future Now Show Circular Economy with Giulia Viero, Ricardo Weigend, Patrick Crehan Article 02 A circular economy could end waste – at the cost of our privacy By Nigel Walton, Assistant Professor, School of Strategy and Leadership, Coventry University and Anitha Chinnaswamy, Assistant Professor of Computing, Coventry University. News about the Future > EPFL develops solution for detecting deepfakes > Environmentally sensitive concrete Article 03 Fine-tuning the climate By Deutsche Welle Recommended Book The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis By Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac Article 04 How Singapore Uses Science to Stay Cool By Bloomberg and Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global Climate Change Success Story What if Climate Change was Made Illegal? By One Tree Planted Futurist Portrait Nikolas Badminton Chief Futurist Tags: Aletsch Glacier, Backcasting, Bioprotection, Business, Business models, Carbon footprint, Circular Economy, Climate Change, Corona, Cradle to cradle, Forecasting, Foresight, Future, Geoengineering, Iceland, Ideas, Music therapy, Nature, Peru, Small-Medium Enterprises, SMEs, Sustainable cities, Sustainable Development Goals, Switzerland, Transformation, United States, Yoga Club of Amsterdam Search Submit your article Contact Subscribe Welcome Felix B Bopp Website statistics for 2021: https://clubofamsterdam.com Visits Januar – August: 212,000 Robert Noble: “What if we completely reconfigured how we make building materials and everyday products to be healthier and more efficient, to have lower carbon footprints, to be regenerative, recyclable, and compostable. What if that reconfiguration resulted in a sustainable circular pattern of waste material utilization, manufacturing conversion, and production of thousands of high performance, environmentally superior, non-toxic, cradle-to-cradle compliant, clean and healthy products and systems. What if we had a core composite material conversion technology that would enable that reconfiguration.” Leif Thomas Olsen: “… backcasting is not concerned with predicting the future; rather, it is a strategic problem-solving framework, in the quest for the answer to how to reach specified outcomes in the future. This involves finding ways of linking goals that may lie more than a generation in the future to a set of steps performed now and designed to achieve that end… In backcasting, one envisions a desirable future endpoint and then works backward to determine what programs would be required to attain that specified future or to construct a plausible causal chain leading from here to there. …” Christiana Figueres: “We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.” |
Leave a Reply