Meet Liam, he will be 11 years old in 2030 — the year red-lined by Earth Scientists as the deadline for halving global greenhouse emissions from pre-industrial levels in an attempt to reach net-zero by 2050. Luckily, as grandparents we get to spend the day with him from time-to-time and…

Circular Cities in the 21st Century With the launch of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer, data-driven Artificial Intelligence has become the latest and greatest technological wave to ride in 2023. Incredibly, it offers us a new human experience, providing a much needed and desired resource to add to our digital tool-box. …

THE CHALLENGE: We have seven-more-years to halve global green house emissions, or else. How can we make this transition fun? -Dated October 2022 — The Living Planet Index Report: in its latest publication, the World Wide Fund for Nature has determined that Earth has suffered a biodiversity loss of upwards…

The Holocene Extinction Event: In a press release dated July 18th, 2022, the Pentagon announced that the United States had successfully tested a Raytheon Technologies air-breathing hypersonic weapon, capable of speeds faster than 6,200 km/h (five times the speed of sound) making it the third successful test of that class of weapon since 2013…

THE DECADE FOR ACTION: 2020–2030 On April 22nd, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the Leaders Summit on Climate Change calling for international cooperation: “Our discussion today has demonstrated our deep mutual concern over climate change and our interest in stepping up international efforts to resolve this problem. …

THE RACE IS ON — We have nine years to transform our global economy into more “regenerative” circular economy — let’s make this transition fun! Our World in Crisis — Global Climate Change, Projected Sea-Level Rise, Resource Depletion, Species Extinction, Environmental Degradation, Growing Social Inequalities, are just some of the…

Using the power of Science Fiction to leverage disruptive innovation Chapter 1 — Operation BeeHive ANA/Flight 008 Seat 14 “Congratulations Debbie, we are pleased to announce your acceptance into Singularity University” “I got accepted…?” I closed my laptop slowly. Could it be? “What honey?” Micah questioned from across the room. “I got accepted into Singularity University!” “Into where?” he asked.

Daily life in a Circular City is organized differently than our current day-to-day routines require. For the average citizen in a circular economy, the world around us will become more responsive — more resourceful for our civic needs. …