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Optimistic Futurist: Why today’s students need our support

For the next two minutes or so reading time, I intend to shock you with information, increase your anxiety about the future of our society, ... Read more

by Francis Koster, Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:00 am

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Optimistic Futurist: Lack of dental care a painful reality for working poor

A few weeks ago, a courteous 20-something young man knocked on my door and asked whether I had any yard work he could do to ... Read more

by Francis Koster, Sunday, February 23, 2014 12:00 am

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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 ... Read more

by Francis Koster, Sunday, January 26, 2014 12:00 am

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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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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, ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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. ... Read more

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 ... Read more

by Francis Koster, Friday, July 13, 2012 12:00 am

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