Planetary Futures Projects

The Global Village of 100 People

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

57 Asians, 21 Europeans , 14 from the Western Hemisphere (both north and south), 8 Africans;

70 would be non-white ; 30 would be white;

52 would be female; 48 would be male;

70 would be non-Christian; 30 would be Christian;

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth, and all 6 would be from the USA;

80 would live in substandard housing;

70 would be unable to read ;

50 would suffer from malnutrition;

1 would be near death and 1 would be near birth;

1 would have a college education ; 1 would own a computer.

The full original 1990s report by Donella Meadows can be found at the Sutainability Institute: Donella Meadows Archive

http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn338villageed

International Survey of University Futures Courses

This is a planet wide survey of universities that offer futures courses, from full-degrees to short courses, current as of 2008. Research undertaken by Jose Maria Ramos on behalf of WFSF.

The information from this Survey can be accessed at the WFSF website under Futures Studies Tertiary Futures Education.