Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.