Over 4,000 young people from 88 countries reveal trends in youth culture to help us understand our planetary future. Discover the values and religious beliefs of Generations Y and Z, based on their own voices rather than adult conclusions from multiple-choice surveys. This book includes futurists' projections of significant global trends and application of youth values and tactics to recent environmental and other movements.

An essential book by one of today's most innovative social thinkers: From the book's back cover- "In no aspect of life today do we confront more rapid and easily confusing change than in the worlds of gender and intimacy. Men and women equally are left without clear guideposts for their choices. In this short book, one of our time's most innovative social scientists and futurists offers big-picture perspective for making sense of why we see what...

"Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future" is the most detailed of three new future- related works by the author. It looks deeply at how the most important challenges ahead for the species will require not just better ideas, but new human capacities; in the end, an essential "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. It is written for those interested in acquiring the newly sophisticated leadership abilities that we will more and more...

Just how near is the end of the world? Behind the veil of safety of everyday life in the West lurks the sinister reality of a chaotic universe. Doomsday reveals the very real threats posed to modern civilization as the 21st century progresses, and asks the question: Is humanity on the path to destruction? War, famine, plague, global warming, nuclear meltdown: all have the potential to extinguish life on Earth forever. While our technology can help...

The book is based on: a) The premise that "we" (humanity) are the problem, that "we" have created the environmental problems that threaten our future. b) The premise that we need to mature and evolve our collective human consciousness. We have used an immature, unevolved thinking process based on early childhood conditioning to create and function in the modern world. c) The premise that we need to intentionally tame, evolve, and mature our collective...

The purpose of the book is to provide an applied, practical, yet theoretically grounded, reference on social influence strategies for environmental behavior change. The book is intended to be used as a professional reference by practitioners in governmental and nongovernmental organizations worldwide. The book is also intended to be used as a text by students of environmental science, environmental communication and environmental education.

To live forever is one of man's oldest aspirations-and it might be become a reality. With advances in medicine and new gene research, human life span could extend into hundreds of years. But, is this life extension a good thing? "Cheating Death" examines every side of the dilemma of aging and longevity, from improvements in diet and medicine to the grander promises of science to the consequences of incredibly long life.

Hope and the Future is a critically important book by one of our times' most respected and original social thinkers. This second edition includes a new preface and additional examples that more specifically address unsettling events of the last four years. Hope and the Future addresses what legitimate hope for the future necessarily depends on. It describes how we face a growing number of challenges that require that we think, act, and relate in new...

El futuro ya ha ocurrido. La innovación, y la capacidad para generar cambios y adaptarse a sus efectos está en el ADN del ser humano. A través de las páginas de esta Breve historia del futuro podrás viajar en el tiempo para comprobar cómo los seres humanos ya hemos vivido profundas disrupciones en nuestra forma de vivir, de aprender, de trabajar, de disfrutar de nuestro ocio, de alimentarnos o de amar. Entender cómo las personas reaccionamos...

By the bestselling author of Voluntary Simplicity (over 150,000 sold); Brings together cutting-edge science and ancient spiritual wisdom to demonstrate that the universe is a living, sentient system and that we are an integral part of it and explores the power of this new paradigm to move humanity toward a sustainable and promising future. Science has traditionally regarded the universe as mostly made up mostly of inert matter and empty space. At...