Fwd: info on Technology Foresight

[Robert Pojasek <rpojasek@sprynet.com>]

I am teaching a course at Harvard this semester (a
live case course) that is examining how a local government and a local
industrial facility define the PATH to sustainable development.  It
is a distance learning course.  You can visit much of the web site
at
<http://lab.dce.harvard.edu/extension/envre105/> 
I hope you will find it helpful.

Bob Pojasek

> How,
> specifically, can we develop reasonable scenarios of the future to guide
> strategic thinking about sustainability and technology?  The
> futurists of the world are calling their method "Technology
> Foresighting", and now major international institutions and research
> institutes are adopting this theme.  Yes, it's another buzz phrase
> to remember, but the size of the global network on this topic and the
> ideas they are presenting are very interesting for anyone concerned with
> sustainable business and Cleaner Production.  Two good resources
> are
>  
> Latin America and
> Caribbean Technology Foresight
> Initiative 
> http://www.foresight.ics.trieste.it/
>  
> APEC's
> Technology Foresight Network 
> http://www.apectf.net/index.cfm
>  
> Seems like a good concept to link to community-based visioning for
> sustainability.  I am scanning thru this community on the web for
> particularly good guidance docs, will post info on any I find.  Any
> suggestions for particularly good references?
>  
> Burt Hamner
> www.cleanerproduction.com