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U.S. National Capital Region Chapter

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Welcome!

The World Future Society U.S. National Capital Region Chapter is an organization by and for professionals in all industries and all levels of government who prepare for the future by acting today.

The Chapter provides an independent, interdisciplinary, open forum to learn, explore, develop, produce and promote futures thinking. Our vision is to be the center for ideas in Greater Washington, D.C. that leverages the resources unique to this region in order to craft better futures for ourselves and our world. To this end we offer a variety of programming, a world-wide distributed magazine Future Takes, and a forum in which to engage other forward thinkers.

		Material presented at our March 15, 2012 dinner meeting "Climate Engineering: New Directions in Technology Assessment at the US Government Accountability Office". Power Point Slides from Presentation Link to related GAO site: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-71 takes you to :(1) an electronic copy of GAO-11-71, (2) a podcast by GAO’s Chief Scientist Dr. Timothy Persons on issues surrounding climate engineering technologies (3) 2 videos (Depiction of the Global Carbon Cycle Changes Over Time and Global Active Energy Budget of the Earth’s Atmosphere). Also there are the 2 videos shown during the presentation (also at link above). http://youtu.be/rP2YCHRPYS8 and http://youtu.be/m3Al93fr8ic Note: see event archive tab for material from some previous events.
		Link to Future Takes Geostrategic Thematic Issue http://www.futuretakes.org/Volume10_no3.html Link to Future Takes Summer Reading Issue (book reviews http://www.futuretakes.org/Volume10_no2.html Link to Future Takes Fourth Trans-Cultural Thematic Issue http://www.futuretakes.org/v10n1_FrontCover.html Link to Future Takes Fall/Winter_2009-2010

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Invitations and discounts to our dinner events, workshops, professional training sessions, luncheons, book club meetings, and more.

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May Events:

May 2, 2012
Book Club

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin

Location: Politics & Prose, Lower Level, 5015 Connecticut Avenue, Washington D.C. NW

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm

Fee: Free

May 17, 2012
Dinner Meeting

Whither Poverty & the Millennium Development Goals: World Bank Futures 2030 and Beyond

Panel Discussion: Moderator: Claire A. Nelson

Location: Hilton Garden Inn, 7301 Waverly Street, Bethesda, Md.

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Visit the Chapter Events and Affiliate Events pages for the complete program schedule.

Want to share your vision?
We are always interested in posting white papers and articles to this site.

If you wish to publish with us, please send an email to David Stein, our Future Takes Editor-in-Chief.