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  • Pondering our post petroleum future

    A 2006 Peak Moment interview with Michael Ruppert ...
  • Record numbers of Americans need food stamps

    One in 10 Americans need help to buy food - Reuters ...
  • Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted

    News Report by The Independent (UK) ...
  • The Financial Tsunami

    The Financial Tsunami - Professor Ngaire Woods, BBC Radio 4 ...
  • A conversation with James Lovelock

    Doctor James Lovelock, is most famous for originating Gaia Theory ...
  • Less than 100 months to act

    A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales titled "Less Than 100 Months to Act" ...
  • Understanding Peak Oil

    A presentation by Dr Colin Campbell ...
  • On a clear day you can see forever

      Zimba - from Anton – Vorarlberg Austria ...
  • It IS a very beautiful world

    Golm - from Anton – Vorarlberg Austria ...
  • Welcome to the Holo-Deck

    The GEO600 Experiment :  Holographic Universe – New Scientist Welcome to the Holo-Deck - click here...
  • Taxing times for Obama

    Tomasky talk: Taxing times for Obama administration The possible explanations for the tax controversies that have hit the US president's promises to clean up politics Click here for Michael Tomasky's Guardian blog...
  • The curious case of Benjamin the Briton

    Not a very funny yoke! http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2009/jan/30/recession-debt...
  • Building capacities for community transformation

    Overview ALL local communities are faced with the need to prepare themselves for a constantly changing, interconnected and increasingly complex society. This article emphasizes the needs to develop "webs of learners" throughout any community who have t...
  • Transforming the 20th Century Mind

    The Role of a Futures Institute "The living organism must adapt to changes in the environment. The extent to which it can do so successfully will determine the organism's place on the evolutionary scale." Richard Restak, The Brain "Evolutionary change ...
  • Global recession - where did all the money go?

    The global financial pyramid scheme explained from the Guardian online EVER since central banks stopped pegging their currencies to the price of gold, money has bbeen a nebulous concept: a promise to pay the bearer, a "cheque" from the central bank ra...
  • Entering theTunnel of Transformation

    An extract from the Essay – Leadership in Transition (See Archive for Full Version) ...
  • Connecting around the world

    Dear Mr Smyre and Mr Whiland - I've just had the pleasure of looking over your website for the first time, and I'm impressed and inspired by the work you are doing. I'll continue to visit your website, and share it as a model with my colleagues. I work...
  • Energy Controversies at Aberdeen Uni

    ENERGY Controversies is a new University of Aberdeen lecture series which aims to tackle the key challenges and raise debate on the main issues facing the energy sector now and in the future. Spearheaded by Professor Ben Kneller from the University’s...
  • Calmer markets in Year of the Ox?

    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Stock investors reeling from last year's market mayhem may take some solace from practitioners of the ancient Chinese art of feng shui, who predict a calmer, if subdued, performance in the coming Chinese Year of the Ox. "This year...
  • Call for papers for Euroframe Conference

    A CALL has gone out for papers for presentation at a conference in London in June. The EUROFRAME group of research institutes (CASE, CPB, DIW, ESRI, ETLA, IfW, NIESR,OFCE, PROMETEIA, WIFO) will hold its sixth annual Conference on Economic Policy Issues ...

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WELCOME to Communities of the Future, an evolving 21st century network of people and organizations throughout the U.S.A, Europe and other countries.

We are working in collaboration to develop new concepts of governance, economic development, leadership, and education/learning as a response to a fast-paced, interconnected, and increasingly complex world.

CoTF Workbook

Workbook for Community Transformation - original essays and writings by Rick Smyre

If anyone would like to have a digital copy of the community transformation workbook that Rick uses to develop "master capacity builders" in local communities, please contact him at rlsmyre@aol.com and he will send all twelve tabs to you directly free of charge.

The essays come under different headings as follows;

  1. CoTF Vignettes
  2. Transformation
  3. System of Community Transformation
  4. Transformational Leadership
  5. Transformational Learning
  6. Emergence of a Molecular Economy
  7. Weak Signals
  8. Rethinking the Role of the Chamber of Commerce
  9. Return of the Rural Area
  10. Why Old Solutions No Longer Work
  11. 21st Century Bibliography
  12. Rick Smyre Bio

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