Being an Optimistic Futurist Last weekend, I finished reading Octavia Butler’s dystopian sci-fi classic Parable of the Sower. The book was published in 1993 and is set in The United States in the year 2025. The country is on the verge of collapse; ravaged by extreme weather, lawlessness and economic despair. The world she describes […]
Unexpected Costs of Birthing a Book
Art Credit: Brown Eyed Girls by Katty Smith My book, Reimagining Our Tomorrows: Making Sure Your Future Doesn’t SUCK, was released yesterday. Which also meant that yesterday marked the beginning of the REALLY BIG BOOK PROMOTION TOUR. To kick things off, I was invited to speak at an event on sustainable tourism at a […]
Contemplating Melting Icebergs in Sunny Florida
DATE: Nov. 30, 2016, on the road to Ft. Lauderdale FORECAST: Unseasonably warm MISSION: Attend the Companies vs. Climate Change Conference When I had first registered for the conference, way back in August, I had imagined a significantly different future than the one I was living in as I made the three-hour drive to Ft. […]
I know I shouldn’t have…..
but I couldn’t stop myself. You see I got an email the other day from someone I did not know (nothing new there right?). This one was a journalist requesting that I help him with an article he was writing. Typically I appreciate those requests, but this one was…well, here’s the whole text: I’m writing […]