Future Salon

Tomorrow: Green Tomorrows Future Salon

Tomorrow's Future Salon speaker Jamais Cascio posted about Green Tomorrows: The Scenarios on his blog.

Jamais: The four boxes represent a variety of "response" scenarios, each embracing elements of the prevention, mitigation, and remediation approaches to solving the climate crisis. Certain approaches may receive greater emphasis in a given scenario, but all three types of responses can be seen in each world.

It is going to be really interesting tomorrow. [more details]

A Future Salon has the following structure: 6-7 networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP. From 7-9+ pm presentation and discussion. SAP Labs North America, Building D, Room Southern Cross or Cafeteria depending on how many people sign up. SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 map As always free and open to the public, spread the news.  Please RSVP: http://snurl.com/2252c

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Green Tomorrows Future Salon Thursday 27th

Update: Jamais wasn't able to do it last month, this is why we moved it to next Thursday 27th 6pm SAP Labs Palo Alto. He wrote me: Yes! Barring the zombie plague or meteor strike or military coup, of course.

World Changing used to be one of my favorite blogs. I would guess who wrote the post while reading it. The most insightful ones where always written by Jamais Cascio. He moved on to post on his own blog: Open the Future. His most famous post is the calculation of the carbon footprint of the production and consumption of one cheeseburger.

He was also one of the first regulars coming to the Future Salon, when we were just a couple of people sitting in a circle at the Barnes and Noble in San Mateo. After a while the long drive from a bit beyond East Bay was to much.

This is why I am super happy that Jamais will be talking about Green Tomorrows at our Future Salon on Thursday the 28th of February. Abstract of his talk:

With global warming and ongoing climate disruption posing a leading
threat to how the next century unfolds, it's useful to look at the
implications of how we might choose to respond. Adopting a "scenario
planning" approach, Jamais Cascio looks at four different possible
ways we could tackle climate risks -- and the kinds of worlds that
these choices might create. From geoengineering to distributed power,
hyper-efficient buildings to reimagined cities, the various possible
strategies we might employ offer a diversity of complex risks and
transformative benefits.