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A Sustainable 2050? Difficult - and Possible

Date: 
February, 24 2010 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Sustainovation
Location Address (City, State, Zip): 
1023 Corporation Way Palo Alto, CA 94303
http://conexions.org/map-and-directions
Contact: 
Samantha Schoenfeld
650.938.9300 ext. 10
sschoenfeld@conexions.org

An In-Depth Dialogue with Robert Horn, Stanford H/STAR Institute

 
Can we create a sustainable world by 2050?  It may be DIFFICULT but it may, just barely, and with a little luck, be POSSIBLE. Join us as Robert Horn, having just served on an 18-month task force studying this topic, explores the question with us.

Recently, Bob Horn was the synthesizer and visualizer for an international team of business strategists from 29 major transnational companies who were developing the requirements for a sustainable world in 2050. Sponsored by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva, the 18 month project envisioned, and then back-casted what will be necessary if we are to be successful as, a sustainable civilization by that time. As part of this project, Bob has created a a large (4 x 18 foot) information mural called "Pathway to Sustainability." This info-mural contains approx. 400 requirements and milestones for each of the next four decades, culminating in a sustainable baseline by 2050.

Bob will use the info-mural to explain how he goes about working on a panoramic scale.  He will seek our observations and insights, and will challenge us to step up to the coming decade - what WBCSD strategists call "The Turbulent Teens".

6:30 PM-7:00 PM Networking
7:00 PM-8PM Presentation
8:00 PM- 9PM Dialgoue
Cost $20

About the Instructor/Speaker: 

Robert E. Horn is a visiting policy science researcher and artist at
Stanford's Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute (H/STAR)
institute. Bob is devoting all of his time these days to working with the
world's messiest problems, climate change, energy security, pandemics,
nuclear energy, etc. He is the author of Visual Language: Global
Communication for the 21st Century. His recent consulting clients include:
NASA, The British Foreign Office, Alberta Department of the Environment,
Foresight Canada, International Futures Forum (UK), Boeing, and other Global
1000 companies. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Sheffield (U.K.)
universities. At Stanford he continues his research work in public policy.