Paul Schumann

In August 2009 Slate Magazine conducted a weeklong thought experiment on the United States' demise. Josh Levin was listed as the author. The study was composed of several articles during the week, a survey of readers, and some analysis of the survey data. The… Continue

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film that takes viewers on a provocative and eye-opening tour of the real costs of our consumer driven culture—from resource extraction to iPod incineration.

Annie Leonard, an activist who has spent the past 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats, narrates the Story of Stuff, delivering a rapid-fire, often humorous and always engaging story about “all our stuff—where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.”

Leonard examines… Continue

Alex Wong

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Audio recording can be found here.

Imagine yourself as an observer in a universe but not part of the universe. This universe contains no created objects or even energy that you can sense. No mater which way you turn or move through this universe, you sense no change. In this universe you would have no perception of space. Any place you were would seem like any other place and you would have no reference betwee… Continue

The Central Texas Chapter of the WFS presented Visioning Epochal Changes on November 17, 2009.

Our meeting featured two authors—John Petersen and Penny Kelly— who have written provocative books about epochal changes they foresee in the 2020 + 10 year time horizon, and what we can do now to make things better then.

John Petersen is founder and CEO of the Arlington Institute (TAI), a non-profit, future-oriented research institute w… Continue