Planned Events

9th Annual Kistler Prize

September 11, 2008

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

September 12–14, 2008

 

RECENT Events

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

June 2008

“Think Globally, Act Locally” Humanity 3000 Seminar

April 2008

Walter P. Kistler Book Award

March 2008

Walter P. Kistler Science Teacher Award

November 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

Research Grant Awards

 

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Grants Awarded

 

2006

  Awardee Richard A. Slaughter
  Affiliation Foresight International, Indooroopilly, Australia
  Title of Project The “State of Play” in the Futures Field
  Amount Awarded US$23,000
  Date Completed October 2007

 

2005

  Awardee Liane Gabora
  Affiliation University of British Columbia – Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada
  Title of Project Computational Model of the Evolution and Interaction of Ideologies
  Amount Awarded US$10,000
  Date Completed May 2008

 

2004

  Awardee Bill Warren/Spencer Wells
  Affiliation National Geographic Society, Washington, DC USA
  Title of Project The Genographic Project: Tracing Humanity's Roots to a Single Origin
  Amount Awarded US$25,000
  Date Completed December 2005

 

2003

  Awardee Alexander Rose/Stewart Brand
  Affiliation The Long Now Foundation, Sausalito, CA USA
  Title of Project The Timeline Project
  Amount Awarded US$20,000
  Date Completed October 2004

 

2002

  Awardee Brian O’Neill
  Affiliation Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI USA
  Title of Project Future Global Energy Use: Lessons from the Past
  Amount Awarded US$10,000
     

 

2001

  Awardee Guillermo Lemarchand
  Affiliation Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Title of Project The Transition from the Technological Adolescent Civilization Age (TACA) to the Technological Mature Civilization Age (TeMCA)
  Amount Awarded US$12,500
     

 

  Awardee Walter Truett Anderson
  Affiliation Meridian International Institute, San Francisco, CA USA
  Title of Project Enlightenment and Evolution: The Long-Term Future of Human Identity
  Amount Awarded US$12,100
  Date Completed April 2002

 

2000

  Awardee Dr. John Robinson
  Affiliation Self-Employed Research Consultant, Wellington, New Zealand
  Title of Project A Review of Some Forecasts to the End of the Century and Beyond
  Amount Awarded US$10,000
  Date Completed July 2000

 

  Awardee Dr. Sohail Inayatullah
  Affiliation Independent Scholar, Queensland, Australia
  Title of Project An Analysis of the Longer Term Futures of Humanity: Factors and Probable Futures
  Amount Awarded US$8,000
  Date Completed March 2001

 

  Awardee Dr. Richard Lynn
  Affiliation Ulster Institute of Social Research, Coleraine, N. Ireland
  Title of Project Is Fertility for Intelligence in the United States Dysgenic?
  Amount Awarded US$15,000
  Date Completed March 2001

 

  Awardee Dr. James Oberg
  Affiliation Independent Scholar, Dickinson, TX USA
  Title of Project Visions for Planetary Engineering
  Amount Awarded US$12,500
  Date Completed August 2001

 

1996–1999

Four awards were made by the Foundation For the Future in its early years before the Research Grants Program was established:

  Awardee Dr. Eric Chaisson
  Affiliation Wright Center for Innovative Science Education, Tufts University, Medford, MA USA
  Title of Project Video: Cosmic Origins:From the Big Bang to Humanity
  Amount Awarded US$138,000
   

 

  Awardee Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  Affiliation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  Purpose Partnership Program/Forum for the Future
  Amount Awarded US$20,000
   

 

  Awardee Dr. Jerome C. Glenn/Dr. Theodore Gordon
  Affiliation AC/UNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC USA
  Title of Project International Perceptions of Factors that May Affect the Long-Term Future of Humankind
  Amount Awarded US$60,000
   

 

  Awardee Joseph Coates
  Affiliation Kanawha Institute, Washington, DC USA
  Purpose Grants Program Development for the Foundation For the Future
  Amount Awarded US$5,000