Dr Peter Ellyard - Designing 2050

Referring to the website www.designing2050.com, Dr Peter Ellyard introduces his new book, Designing 2050: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity on Spaceship Earth. An inspirational blueprint for those wanting to be future makers rather than future takers, this book offers a third choice. According to Peter Ellyard, we are at a tipping point in history. Globalisation, increased technological and social innovation, the growth of the educated middle class and democracy, and a shared awareness of our ecological vulnerability are combining to offer us a chance of designing sustainable, diverse societies which are prosperous in every way.

Dr Peter Ellyard is a futurist and strategist who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of the best selling book 'Ideas for the New Millennium' (1998, 2001). Peter is a former Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future, held CEO positions in a number of public sector organizations over 15 years and was also Chief of Staff of an Environment Minister in Canberra for 3 years. He is an elected Member of the International Union of Associations, based in Brussels, which has 45,000 international NGO members.

Peter has been a Senior Advisor to the United Nations system for more than 30 years including to the 1992 Earth Summit where he was a senior advisor on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. At other times he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCO.

Peter's new book is available for purchase directly from www.peterellyard.com or www.designing2050.com, and is published by TPNTXT (www.tpntxt.com).

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