Future Here Now, February 4

Welcome to Future Here Now, where we discover how the world around us is changing, how that’s affecting our communities, and what we can do to help the places we care about thrive into the future.

In this edition:

Coming Soon: Everything old is new again

We’re finding more and more that “outdated” ways of doing things have important advantages over how we did it Industrial-Era style. Like this solution to an old, old issue.

Local Learnings: Zoning designed to…shoot us in the foot

I’ve seen enough zoning codes that list nonexistent industries to know that our regulations usually don’t keep up with economic change. Which means they’re giving us a big sleeper challenge right now.

To Do Now: What is wisdom, really?

This thing is called the Wise Economy Workshop for a reason. Wisdom is super important. But what exactly is it? And how do we get it? Hm?

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