The Hames Report
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Danses: The past year was not just one of economic turmoil. Across our increasingly hot and crowded planet people are reacting in sundry, yet mostly conventional ways, to the effects of global heating. Politicians, too, are feeling the heat. And...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Are you quite sure you don’t mind giving this interview? I turned my attention to the monitor, or more precisely, to the young woman on it. She was new to Al Jazirra and had obviously been told I rarely gave...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Throughout my 35 years in sustainability it has always seemed odd that while so-called economic rationalism reigned over our political, economic and business worlds, rational thought wasn’t applied to issues like climate change. The risks were always clear, as defined...
[ Read Post (new window) ]As Lily and Bart enter the polling station to cast their votes for the bioregional council elections of Gippsland they are assailed by a plethora of party volunteers. A throng of partisan hands clamour to re-program their hologram ‘how-to-vote’ cards...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Throughout my 35 years in sustainability it has always seemed odd that while so-called economic rationalism reigned over our political, economic and business worlds, rational thought wasn’t applied to issues like climate change. The risks were always clear, as defined...
[ Read Post (new window) ]“It’s great to be back home, even if it is only for a few days”. Finn had just arrived back from Shanghai, recently awarded the prestigious World’s Greenest City prize by the World Forum over previous winner Sorokovka, Chelyabinsk in...
[ Read Post (new window) ]One of the toughest things for people to do is to anticipate sudden change. Typically we project the future by extrapolating from trends in the past. Much of the time this approach works well. But sometimes it fails spectacularly, and...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Breathe In... I have never felt the urge not to change. The impetus to ‘stay put’ or to ‘play safe’ is foreign to my nature. In truth, it offends me. Curiosity - about new ideas, people and places - is...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Shrewd futurists scour the past as well as investigating the possible in their never-ending search for clues and insights into the present. In terms of the social order our forebears so diligently created, that which manifests today, the past happens...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Hannah McKenna slumped slowly to the ground outside the Hall of the People, her head in her hands. A small sigh escaped from her lips. “So has it all come to this?” she whispered to herself. Hannah, a SYMON, is...
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