StratEDGY

28/02/2022

Join the 24-Hour Round-the-World Conversation to Celebrate World Futures Day, Hosted by the Millennium Project
https://lnkd.in/gSy2KARb Everyone is welcome!

Beginning on March 1 in New Zealand at 12 noon NZ time, the open conversation on how to build a better future will move west each hour. Anyone can join in at 12 noon their time and join futurists and others to explore possibilities for our common future.

Jerome Glenn, CEO of The Millennium Project says. "People drop in and out as they like. If they can't come online at 12 noon their time, they are welcome at any time over the 24 hours. Anybody can pull up a cyber-chair at this global table and join the discussion"

StratEDGY's Stephanie Pride says 'as a professional futurist in Aotearoa it's really exciting to be facilitating the first hour and to be able to share some of the innovative futures initiatives underway in Aotearoa. We currently have a new and unique 'futures commitment device' being implemented, with all Public Service Departments undertaking their first ever Long-term Insights Briefings. At the same time, there are place-based, learning-oriented organic initiatives that are founded in the intergenerational and sustainable perspectives of Te Ao Māori.

When the kōrero (authentic conversation) starts in Aotearoa New Zealand, people joining the conversation include members of the Ōtautahi Futures Collective including Cheryl Doig, Hafsa Ahmed and Ben Reed, as well as some of the people instrumental in creating the Long-term Insights Briefings, Jonathan Boston, Professor of Public Policy in the School of Government, VUW, author of Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow, and Diane Owenga, Head of The Policy Project in New Zealand's Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

In a time when it is becoming clearer that all futures are uncertain, I hope you will join us to engage in kōrero about how we build the capability to shape better futures for planet and people

05/10/2020

The future is distributed!
Transmission & distribution systems optimized for large-scale centralized power production like conventional nuclear militate against introducing small-scale distributed renewable power.

This is one of the findings in a newly published analysis of 123 countries over 25 years by the University of Sussex Business School and the ISM International School of Management.

Researchers also found that unlike renewables, countries around the world with larger scale national nuclear attachments do not tend to show significantly lower carbon emissions—and in poorer countries nuclear programs actually tend to associate with relatively higher emissions.

If countries want to lower emissions as substantially, rapidly and cost-effectively as possible, they should prioritize support for renewables, rather than nuclear power.

02/12/2019

It was a great privilege, and my absolute pleasure to give the keynote for 's Kura Kāwana Symposium for Elected Members this morning. Great to have the opportunity to talk about governing and decision-making in the context of era-scale change.
The future will be reshaped not just by global change juggernauts but by the dreams, hopes, aspirations and visions for our communities.
The fitness of a city for the future is the legacy of the vision of its leaders.
It’s time to dream boldly about shaping era-scale change for a better future for our cities and the communities they contain.

27/11/2019

Stage one of our new website is up now, with information about our established futuring services and our new products that meet your emerging foresight needs

Anticipating and adapting to a rapidly changing environment is one of the biggest challenges facing all organizations in all sectors today.

26/11/2019

Thank you to all the past and current clients, partners and collaborators who helped us to celebrate 10 years of StratEDGY Strategic Foresight last night. Amazing to look back on a decade of futuring with fantastic clients, inspiring partners and meaningful futures projects. Exciting to look forward with new services and products and public futuring initiatives.

14/11/2019

The true sharing economy (as opposed to rapacious, platform-enabled extraction) is a fast-track to reducing both upstream resource use and downstream waste.

Good journalism about what's going right, published daily online and quarterly in print

08/11/2019

Today I had a fantastic surprise. I received the best conference speaker 'thank you' gift EVER. Physiotherapy New Zealand sent me a beautiful kowhai sapling via Tree Gifts NZ
Thank you for walking the talk on the future Physiotherapy New Zealand it's a thing of beauty and it's a carbon sink

12/07/2019

Great initiatives from The MacDiarmid Institute

New metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) being investigated by the MacDiarmid Institute are a potential answer to both storing energy and absorbing carbon dioxide.