New Site Feed

You may have noticed that we've added automatically updating RSS feeds (what is RSS?) above and to the right column of the Greene Futures blog. The box at the top of this column is a widget which projects the articles we pick to share from our own Google Reader RSS subscriptions. With it, we will publish the most important and interesting pieces from our daily reading (encompassing 1000+ articles daily from 304 independent outlets, including news articles, blog posts, journal offerings, new books, and published reports). Greene Future's regular sources are listed to the bottom right-hand side of the blog. We spend hours every day combing through this mountain of information, running the gamut of world news, foreign affairs, trends, energy developments, scientific findings, technological innovations, environmental issues, business events and economic ramifications.

But for you, dear reader, we provide fertile seeds sorted from the chaff. Meaty, actionable intelligence wrestled from a tangle of information overload.

This is just one step in a series to make this site the most useful depot for its readers in all things related to future trends. There exists no satisfactory list of all the news outlets, futurist thinkers and analysis sources to date. It's a full-time job attempting to track down all the little bits of evidence from every corner of the information sphere, and an even more intimidating task groping toward some understanding of what it all means.

Please make sure and subscribe to the Greene Futures blog feed (click here to subscribe). It will allow you to automatically stay abreast of news, analysis and updates from Greene Futures through your favored RSS Reader (Google Reader, My Yahoo RSS, RSS Reader, etc.). And if you frankly have no idea what I've been talking about with all this RSS nonsense, check out the video below:

Welcome to Greene Futures

Welcome to Greene Futures, a forum to explore and harness watershed events, important movements and future trends.

The pace of change, the level of advance and the sheer unimaginable volume of information available to billions of eyes and ears unfolds toward us today in a dizzying torrent. And no one--Cincinnati office worker, Nicaraguan fruit farmer, Wall Street venture capitalist or Darfur refugee--is immune to the immense and often confusing undercurrents pulling inexorably into tomorrow.

How can you plan a life with blind doubt about what tomorrow will bring? How can you build a house without knowing what the housing market brings, structure your investment portfolio with no inkling of the next big thing, create laws without understanding their effects or venture to feed the world's poor without knowing how? Our decisions now not only build upon or hedge against what tomorrow will bring--wise action now creates desired futures.

It is the humble project of Greene Futures to wield the most powerful tool available to human beings--information--to both anticipate and thrive from the future. Information, like any tool, can be winnowed from crude beginnings into a fine precision instrument. We aim to hack through the bramble of words and pictures that assault us daily, in order to emerge with strategic intelligence. Guidance you can use now. Direction to give you a superior edge, to help you thrive. Power to emerge from the fray of the fast and furious, to reign high in a globalized world.

Foresight and relevance. Ability and opportunity. Wisdom and conscience.

Let the conversation begin...