Planned Events

“Future of Planet Earth” FFF/UNESCO Joint Sponsored Seminar

June 3–5, 2008

9th Annual Kistler Prize

September 11, 2008

“Anthropogenic Climate Destabilization: A Worst-case Scenario” Humanity 3000 Workshop

September 12–14, 2008

 

RECENT Events

“Think Globally, Act Locally” Humanity 3000 Seminar

April 2008

Awarding of the Walter P. Kistler Book Award

March 2008

Walter P. Kistler Science Teacher of the Year Award

November 2007

Awarding of Eighth Annual Kistler Prize

September 2007

Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award

June 2007

 

Announcements

2009 Kistler Prize
Call for Nominations

Deadline: Sept. 30, 2008

 

Streaming Video

Foundation For the Future 10th Anniversary

Where Does Humanity Go from Here?

Cosmic Origins: From Big Bang to Humankind

 

Recent Publications

Foundation Newsletter

Winter 2007/2008
[1.6 MB PDF]

“Energy Challenges” Executive Summary

“Energy Challenges” Workshop Proceedings

[34.9 MB PDF]

“Humanity and the Biosphere” Seminar Proceedings

[8.7 MB PDF]

“Crossroads for Planet Earth” Seminar Proceedings

[16 MB PDF]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awards

Kistler Prize

 

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Advisory Panel

The Foundation For the Future is assisted in its evaluation of Kistler Prize nominees each year by the Kistler Prize Advisory Panel, which is composed of prominent members of the academic community. The Panel reviews candidate dossiers and offers recommendations concerning finalists to the Foundation Board of Trustees, which makes the final selection from the short list of recommended candidates. Current members of the Panel are:

Dr. Francisco J. Ayala
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine
 

Dr. Fakhri A. Bazzaz
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
 

Dr. Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
 

Dr. William H. Calvin
Author and Neurobiologist
University of Washington
 

Dr. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
 

Dr. Richard Dawkins
Department of Zoology
Oxford University
 

Dr. Ralph L. Holloway
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
 

Dr. Leroy Hood
President and Director
Institute for Systems Biology
 

Dr. Arthur R. Jensen
Department of Educational Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
 

Dr. Vincent M. Sarich
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
 

Dr. Edward O. Wilson
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University