Joel Barker's New Ideas to Consider
This is the beginning of a long exploration. It is a response to people asking me where they can find good news about the future. This will be one place, though it won't be exhaustive. I will add new items as I see fit on my schedule, so the examples will grow in fits and starts. My goal is to give you as a parent or a grand parent or an older sibling, a place for find stories that give the younger children and adolescents around you reason for being positive about the future.
I went through more than 200 positive articles to sort out the first 10 new ideas to share with you. I'll try to add betweeen 5-10 each week which means about 300 stories a year that show how human beings around the world are working to make it a better place. Of course, it is my definition of "better" and I am sure some of you will disagree with my choices. That's what's nice about a free market. You can disagree with me at no cost.
One more thing: if you have a report on some positive idea for the future, feel free to drop me a note about it. If it meets my own criteria, I'll happily include it with a reference to you.
I will always try to give you a URL to go to to gather more extensive data and, if there are pictures, I'll try to include them since kids love pictures!
See the posts that follow to to see my first 10 new ideas for you to consider.
Here we go!
-- Joel
Joel Barker
futurist, filmmaker, author
Joel Barker's Good News Blog
at the Global Dialogue Center