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The Future For Futuring – A Structure And Process
Friday, 8 February 2013, 2:46 pm | NZ Futures Trust
Media Release For immediate release New Zealand Futures Trust 8 February 2013 The Future For Futuring – A Structure And Process For Keeping New Zealand Futures-Focused Activities Flourishing More >>
Envisioning a Living City with Futures Thinking Aotearoa
Monday, 22 August 2011, 5:31 pm | NZ Futures Trust
A city in Oregon, USA will serve as a compelling case study for “Visioning and Living City Design” at the Futures Trust’s August Lunch Forum in Wellington this Friday. Sustainable city planner and Oregon native Steven Ames will trace the evolution ... More >>
NZ Futures Trust 2009 Forum
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 4:16 pm | NZ Futures Trust
24 November 2009 Forum Tuesday, 24 November from 12.15 - 1.30pm Museum Room, Turnbull House, Bowen St, Wellington Planning for Community Futures ‘The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be' Gareth Moore-Jones -- Gareth will give an ... More >>
The seven keys to unlock the future
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 5:13 pm | NZ Futures Trust
Presented by Gordon Dryden, Co-author of the new book: UNLIMITED: The new learning revolution and the seven keys to unlock it. This book is the sequel to the earlier book, The Learning Revolution, which has sold 10.2 million copies in China alone ... More >>
The Second Bounce of the Ball
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 1:59 pm | NZ Futures Trust
Wendy McGuinness attended the World Futures Society Conference in Washington, DC in July, She is the chief executive of Sustainable Future, see www.sustainablefuture.info, an organisation whose key project is currently Project 2058, which involves exploring ... More >>
Futures Thinking Aotearoa
Thursday, 10 July 2008, 12:45 am | NZ Futures Trust
Improvements in information technology together with new information on how people's brains develop in early life are creating opportunities for improving our learning systems in many ways. Combining the apparent opportunities that are open to us in ... More >>
Futures Thinking: Measuring Communities' Progress
Friday, 6 June 2008, 1:28 pm | NZ Futures Trust
We work hard to 'get ahead in life' but do we really understand what 'getting ahead' really means? Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy, AUT University in Auckland, is an internationally renowned authority on Genuine ... More >>
Futures Thinking Aotearoa: State of NZ's Future
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 11:00 am | NZ Futures Trust
There has been much recent talk about the return of Sir Roger Douglas to the political scene, but what about the possible return of Muldoonism? Some of the mega-drivers of change that Futures Thinking Aotearoa identified last year, when the dots are ... More >>
"Is there a future for Men?"
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 3:55 pm | NZ Futures Trust
Tuesday, 25 March from 12.15 - 1.30pm Museum Room, Turnbull House, Bowen St, Wellington More >>
9 August Forum: Motivating Sustainable Behaviour
Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 11:21 am | NZ Futures Trust
Climate change is a global challenge that requires immediate individual and collective action. Information alone is unlikely to generate the comprehensive enthusiasm and action needed to be effective. This presentation, (based on an understanding how ... More >>
Futures Thinking Aotearoa 25 July 2007 Forum
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 4:39 pm | NZ Futures Trust
In March 2007 Sophie Jerram exhibited Oil on Troubled Water, a video work and installation at Wellington's Enjoy Public Art Gallery. The video work mixes footage from New Zealand and Los Angeles More >>
FTA 3 May Lunch Forum: Social inequalities
Friday, 20 April 2007, 10:58 am | NZ Futures Trust
Charles Waldegrave currently leads the Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit and is joint leader of the New Zealand Poverty Measurement Project Internationally large social inequalities in societies tend to be destabilising and in extreme cases ... More >>
Futures Thinking Aotearoa Forum
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 1:26 pm | NZ Futures Trust
Wednesday, 21 February from 12.15 - 1.30pm Museum Room, Turnbull House, Bowen St, Wellington More >>
Is NZ's Balance of Payments and Debt a Time Bomb?
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:01 am | NZ Futures Trust
Since the neo-liberal reforms of the 1980s, deficits in the current account of the balance of payments have been ignored by policy-makers since they believed that they would be financed by private sector interests for productive purposes. The most recent ... More >>
Tuesday 23 May Lunchtime Forum
Monday, 1 May 2006, 1:46 pm | NZ Futures Trust
Creating the Future: AgResearch's 2020 Science Strategy Led by Dr Stephen Goldson AgResearch Chief Science Strategist More >>
Forum - Work in Progress: Four Futures for NZ
Monday, 6 March 2006, 12:59 am | NZ Futures Trust
What issues may New Zealand face over the next 50 years? What capacity will we have to respond to external pressures such as increased trade barriers, climate change, Peak Oil, 'flu pandemics and the like? More >>
The Bioethics Council Dialogues with the Public
Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:03 am | NZ Futures Trust
They will share their experiences as members of the Bioethics Council as the Council undertakes its brief of engaging widely with the public on the complex ethical issues of the rapidly evolving biotechnology sector. More >>
Does anyone really care about the Future of Energy
Friday, 9 September 2005, 12:27 am | NZ Futures Trust
"Does anyone really care about the Future of Energy" Because of its focus on the long term future of energy Futures Thinking Aotearoa, NZ's only independent futures think tank, asked all 25 registered political parties a series of questions ... More >>
Reminder: August Forum
Friday, 26 August 2005, 3:00 pm | NZ Futures Trust
Futures Thinking Aotearoa - August Forum "Our Energy Legacy - a Dream or Reality?" Led by Ralph Sims, Professor of Sustainable Energy at Massey University More >>
Forum: Bioethics Council Dialogues with the Public
Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 2:39 pm | NZ Futures Trust
They will share their experiences as members of the Bioethics Council as the Council undertakes its brief of engaging widely with the public on the complex ethical issues of the rapidly evolving biotechnology sector. More >>