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Optimistic Futurist: A success story about job creation
Just about the time the South’s furniture and textile economy collapsed, so did Cleveland Ohio’s. Cleveland used to supply much of the steel for the ...
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Optimistic Futurist: Supermarkets have an appetite for local produce
Every major supermarket chain I was able to speak to told me they were having trouble obtaining reliable, large shipments of locally grown items. A ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, January 12, 2014 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: How a rose helps resolve thorny clashes
How would you feel if I came up to you and handed you a rose and said, “You have done something that upset me. I ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Thanking veterans takes more than parades and prayer
This Thanksgiving holiday will find many families gathering around a shared meal, giving thanks, including thanks to the members of the military for keeping us ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, December 1, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: How we can grow jobs and food security
Consider this: The world’s population doubled between 1960, when there were 3 billion people, and 2000, when we hit 6 billion people. In 2020 there ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: How to feed your soul — and the poor
We have a messy public policy debate under way about how communities and various levels of government should act as we seek to “love thy ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, August 11, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Churches make saving energy a matter of faith
In this article I am going to show one area where some public policy goals peacefully join with faith community ideals. Energy is such a ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, July 28, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: We can slim down health-care costs
According to the CIA, we rank 51st in the world for life expectancy. Citizens of the number one spot for life expectancy, Monaco, live on ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, July 14, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Thinking futuristically about jobs
I am a big believer in the oath taken when sworn in to testify in court. It defines truth: “The truth, the whole truth, and ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, June 30, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: We can give our children a better start in life
Each year in the United States around 6 million women conceive. Around a million deliberately abort the pregnancy. Another million or so miscarry. Approximately 4 ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Small startups are banking on new capitalism
In the past few years, our once diverse and decentralized banking system has gone through dramatic change. Three out of every four dollars entrusted to ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Putting a stop to more crime
This is a crime story with a surprising ending. The “bad guys” can behave like “good guys,” if we give them the right tools. The ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, April 7, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Retiring ‘boomers’ make up deep pool of untapped talent
A funny thing happened back in the late 1940s. Lots of young women got pregnant. Some point to more than 13 million servicemen coming home ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Putting a cap (and trade) on emissions
In 1950, there were 2.5 billion people on Earth. Forty years later, in 1990, that number doubled to more than 5 billion. By 2010, just ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Growing sense of community, a meal at a time
By Francis Koster Something very interesting is going on as we invent the America of the future. We have more Facebook “friends” and are less ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, December 16, 2012 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Banking on a positive future
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by Francis Koster, Sunday, December 2, 2012 12:00 am
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The Optimistic Futurist: Prescriptions to cut health-care costs
By Francis Koster www.TheOptimisticFuturist.com I n 2011, each United States citizen’s share of our total health-care expenses was $8,402. Most of us had almost no ...
by Francis Koster, Monday, October 22, 2012 12:00 am
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The Optimistic Futurist: 5 ways to lower health care costs
I n 2011, each United States citizen’s share of our total health-care expenses was $8,402. Most of us had almost no expenses; some of us ...
by Francis Koster, Friday, October 19, 2012 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Where there’s a will, there’s a better way
By Francis P. Koster www.TheOptimisticFuturist.com Last week I was wandering along a beachfront shopping district in South Carolina and found an interesting antique shop. The ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, October 7, 2012 12:00 am
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The Optimistic Futurist: Local leadership can fuel change
By Francis P. Koster www.TheOptimisticFuturist.org Who ever thought that the route to a better America might be through garbage dumps? When measured at the dump, ...
by Francis Koster, Friday, September 21, 2012 12:00 am
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Optimistic Futurist: Finger licking good ideas fuel our future
OK, I admit it – I love the smell of frying chicken. Do you recall how you felt as a child when you got home ...
by Francis Koster, Saturday, September 8, 2012 12:00 am
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The Optimistic Futurist: Digital health data will improve care, spur debate
By Francis Koster There is an area of science that is likely to take our current public policy debate about the appropriate scope of government ...
by Francis Koster, Sunday, August 26, 2012 12:00 am
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The Optimistic Futurist: Keeping up with the Joneses via conservation
By Francis Koster www.TheOptimisticFuturist.com When I think about what we need to satisfy our society’s basic needs, water is at the top of my list. ...
by Francis Koster, Friday, July 27, 2012 12:00 am
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The Optimistic Futurist: When a headache is a good thing
By Francis Koster www.TheOptimisticFuturist.org Imagine that you had a child with a mild headache that lasted a few days, sometimes with nausea. As a responsible ...