Two tipping points are competing to determine our future. The first is visible and physical – melting glaciers, flooded cities, and sunken islands. The second is a social tipping point – subtler, less dramatic and less observable, but just as real: melting resistance to engaging in sustainability, and a rising tide of climate action. Here's our method for ensuring the second one wins.

Scientists have revealed Dark Matter and Dark Energy, but now they've rolled out the most improbable 'dark' of all: Dark Solar, the Dark Side of solar power. This could square the circle of renewable energy and be a boon to the 13% of humanity living without electricity. If even half the energy of photovoltaic cells can be realized at night, that would equal the output of almost 36 nuclear reactors.

It comes down to this: if you and your company are not thinking about, planning for, defending against, and leveraging the megatrends that are manifesting this decade, your entire strategy is at risk. Our proprietary 30 for 30 Megatrends© survey searched for and compiled what these sources see as the biggest and most critical trends for the next decade.

Intuitively, money that is almost entirely electronic seems like it should be environmentally friendly. Yet mining crypto — a complex and decentralized accounting exercise — requires an incredible amount of energy and creates an amazing amount of heat. Some innovators, however, are finding innovative solutions to the former and just-as-innovative uses for the latter.

Every prior generation had some upcoming date, event or achievement that served as a metaphor for The Future. For many, that future was 2020.  Now it has arrived. But If Now Was the Future Then, When is the Future Now?

When the Beatles’ John Lennon first heard Paul McCartney’s It’s Getting Better all the Time , he had only one suggestion, adding, “can’t get no worse,” to the chorus. The former sentiment is, in fact, true. The latter is not: It can get worse. It is possible to continue the good trends while changing the bad ones and It is our task now to stop the slide and make the world much better.