Texas is the Fastest Growing State in the Union

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The Future of Texas:
The Fastest Growing State in the Union
Developed and presented by:
Prof. Rodney Hill
Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence, & Professor,
Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University
&
Dr. Jorge Vanegas
Dean, College of Architecture, & Professor,
Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University; and
Research Professor, Texas Engineering Experiment Station at Texas A&M University System

We live in a
world…
…full of
intersections

…and how we handle these
intersections can determine if we can
keep on going…

So, imagine
that you/we
(or as they
say… y’all)
live in Texas.
What is in
the horizon
for all of us?

Predictions
Prognostications
Forecasts
Guesses

“It is said
that the
present is
pregnant
with the
future.”
Voltaire

… And the present is the
offspring of the past…

We also need to remember that
the Future arrives every second
as today’s reality, and it does not
have “Stop,” “Pause,” “Rewind,”
“Fast Forward,” “Eject,” “Mute,”
or “Reset” buttons….

And when the future
arrives…

It may cause us to…
FREEZE…

Or, it may cause us to want
to…
FLEE…

Or, it may cause us to want
to…
FIGHT…

Regardless, before it
arrives, in facing the
future, we have
choices we can
make…

We may choose to contribute
to make the Future we want
happen, as…
ACTORS…

We may choose to just wait
and see what Future will
happen, as…
SPECTATORS…

Or, when whatever Future
arrives:
We may choose to ask
“what happened?”
as…
CRITICS…

Or worse, when whatever
Future arrives:
We may choose to just say
“huh, something
happened?”
as…
OBLIVIOUS
BYSTANDERS…

And, will the choices we make allow
us to ride the wave of the future as
individuals...?

Will the realities we will face along
the way crush us...?

Or, will we be able to face them
together with others, in teams or in
organizations...?

While
the
U.S.
as
a
whole
won’t

experience
the
perfect
storm
that

popula8on
growth
will
bring
by

2050
like
in
Asia,
Africa,
India
and

Central
and
South
America,

but
Texas
will!

The
three
largest
states
by
popula8on

are
California,
Texas
and
New
York.

Texas
is
growing
faster
than
any
state

in
the
union
and
will
capture
25%
of

US
popula8on
growth
by
2050.

In
June
of
2014,
Texas
unemployment

rate
was
5.1%.

Texas
has
seen
a
19%
GDP
compared

to
5%
for
the
USA.

From
2005-‐2010,
Texas
gained

636,639
residents
from
other
states

and
they
brought,
on
net,
$14.4
billion

in
adjusted
gross
income.

Texas
has
a
AAA
credit
ra8ng
from

Standard
and
Poor.

Economics
21,
ManhaYan
Ins8tute
Aug.
19,
2014

People
moving
to
Texas
from

California
or
New
York
will

probably
take
a
pay
cut
but
but

nonetheless
enjoy
a
higher

disposable
income.

The
Economist,
Oct.
4,
2014

There
are
around
2000
people

moving
to
Texas
every
day!

Where
are
they
going?

Texas
will
grow
from
25
million
to
55

million
by
2050
and
will
increase
the

compe88on
for
water
and
electricity.

Aljazeera
America,
July
29,
2014

If
you're
hun8ng
for
a
great
city
in

which
to
work
-‐-‐
or
a
place
that's

economically
booming
in
general
-‐-‐

then
we've
got
a
crop
for
you.

(Spoiler
alert:
Texas
is
the
place
to
go.)

Huﬃngton
Post,
Jan.
13,
2015

Texas
is
has
ten
cites
listed
as
the
most

produc3ve
&
economically
booming
ci3es
in

America!

Aus8n
and
area
are
#2

Houston
area
is
#7

Ft.
Worth/Arlington,
TX.
Is
#8

Dallas,
TX.
Is
#9

San
Antonio
is
#10

Fast
Company
lists
the
top
20
ci8es

where
crea8ve
jobs
are.

Aus8n
is
#1

Houston
is
#6

Dallas
is
#14

Fast
Company,
June
25,
2015

The
top
ten
list
of
best
ci8es
for

Hispanics/La8nos
to
thrive
show

Houston,
Dallas-‐Fort
Worth,
Aus8n

and
San
Antonio.

The
top
ten
list
of
best
ci8es
for
Asian

Americans
to
thrive
show
Houston,

Dallas-‐Ft.
Worth,
and
Aus8n.

Fast
Company,
June
11,
2015

Aus8n
has
set
the
pace
for

popula8on
growth
in
the
state.

Its
popula8on
grew
37%
in
the

decade
ending
n
2010.

Associated
Press,
March
7,
2015

Aus8n
is
number
one
and
Houston
is

the
number
two
most
overvalued

housing
market
in
the
US.

If
the
roaring
economy
slows
the
real

estate
prices
will
likely
just
stagnate.

Real
Estate
Conﬁden8al,
June
15,
2015

Houston
is
trying
to
build
a
city

that
is
innova8ve,
exci8ng,

entrepreneurial
and
sustainable.

As
a
result
its
popula8on
of
young

college
graduates
grew
more

quickly
between
2000
&
2010
than

any
other
major
metropolis.

Fast
Company,
July
2015

The
State
of
Texas
Demographer

says
that
migrants
tend
to
be

younger,
and
can
help
maintain
a

high
worker
to
re8ree
ra8o.

Associated
Press,
March
7,
2015

35,000
people
moved
to
Houston

in
2013
and
is
second
to
only
New

York
City
in
total
popula8on

growth.

Houston
was
the
ﬁrst
major
city
to

regain
all
of
their
jobs
aner
the

crash,
but
as
of
2013,
Houston
had

also
added
two
more
jobs
for
every

one
lost.

And
in
2014,
Houston
had
the

highest
job
crea8on
index
score.

Houston
has
passed
NYC
to

become
the
most
ethnically

diverse
city
in
the
United
States.

With
21
hospitals,
eight
academic

and
research
ins8tu8ons,
and
50

related
organiza8ons,
Houston
has

the
largest
medical
center
in
the

en8re
world.

Houston
has
more
parks
and
green

space
than
any
other
top
10

metropolitan
area
city.

Houston,
long
as
a
bas8on
of
the

oil
and
gas
industry,
has
also

become
a
green
leader,
geong

50%
of
its
energy
from
renewable

sources.

Fast
Company,
July
2015

Forbes
said
Houston
will
widely
be
considered

America’s
“next
great
global
city”
by
2023.

Houston
has
the
most
Fortune
500
companies

outside
of
NYC.

In
August,
more
new-‐home
permits
were
issued

in
Houston
than
in
the
en8re
state
of
California.

Twice
as
much
oﬃce
space
is
being
built
in

Houston
as
in
New
York
City.

Bloomberg
Businessweek,
Dec.
22,
2014

At
more
than
$500
billion,
Houston’s
regional
economy

is
now
the
fourth-‐largest
in
the
U.S.
Over
the
past

decade,
Houston
has
added
more
jobs—628,000—than

exist
in
all
of
New
Orleans.

In
August,
more
new-‐home
permits
were
issued
in

Houston
than
in
the
en8re
state
of
California.

Twice
as
much
oﬃce
space
is
being
built
in
Houston
as

in
New
York
City.

Bloomberg
Businessweek,
Dec.
22,
2014

Houston
won’t
stop
growing
completely
due
to

the
oil
prices.

Patrick
Jankowski,
the
resident
research

economist
at
the
Greater
Houston
Partnership,

says
Houston
will
create
62,900
jobs
in
2015

despite
losing
about
9,000
energy
jobs.

Bloomberg
Businessweek,
Dec.
22,
2014

Today
energy
makes
up

38
percent
of

Houston’s
economy,
says
Jankowski.

Houston’s
port
is
now
the
biggest
in
the
U.S.

Its
Texas
Medical
Center
is
the
largest
medical

complex
in
the
world.

Growth
in
Houston
has
been
so
strong
recently

that
the
supply
of
homes
is
s8ll
8ght.

Bloomberg
Businessweek,
Dec.
22,
2014

Aner
the
plunge
in
oil
prices,
the

Lone
Star
State
has
been
able
to

muddle
through
thanks
to
the
s8ll-‐
booming
Dallas-‐Fort
Worth
metro

region,
The
na8on’s
fourth
largest

with
nearly
seven
million
people.

Wall
Street
Journal,
June
18,
2015

Dallas-‐Ft.
Worth
lost
more
than
100,000
jobs

during
the
recession,
but
it
has
added
nearly

four
8mes
that
number
since
then.

Thanks
to
its
thriving
business-‐services
and
tech

sectors,
the
area
has
added
36,000
jobs
since

October
2014,
when
oil
prices
started
to

nosedive.

Wall
Street
Journal,
June
18,
2015

The
migra8on
of
large
ﬁnancial
companies

(
State
Farm,
Liberty
Mutual
etc.)
to
DFW

will
con8nue
&
may
escalate.

Toyota
is
moving
to
Plano,
a
Dallas
suburb.

DFW
will

be
3rd
largest
economy

in
the
USA
by
2030,
behind
NYC
&
LA.

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In
Texas,
oil
and
gas
loom
as
a
deﬁning
characteris8c,

but
the
role
they
play
in
the
state
economy,
while

sizable,
has
diminished
in
recent
years
as
other

industries,
such
as
health
care,
biotechnology
and

sonware,
have
grown.

Oil
and
gas
jobs
make
up
only
about
3
percent
of

nonagricultural
jobs
in
Texas,
a
far
lower
share
than

government
(16
percent)
and
educa8on
and
health

services
(13
percent).

New
York
Times,
Dec.
26,
2014

The
San
Antonio
metro
area
now
has
a

burgeoning
biotech
sector
and
Aus8n
has

the
lowest
unemployment
rate
among
the

na8on’s
largest
metro
areas.

Because
of
its
economic
hen
and
size,

Dallas
will
play
a
bigger
role
in
determining

the
rate
of
Texas’
growth.

Wall
Street
Journal,
June
18,
2015

Oil
is
only
10%
of
Texas
economy
today
vs.

28%
in
1980.

Dallas/Ft.
Worth
economy
will
have
a
net

beneﬁt
from
lower
oil
prices.

·∙

Texas
has
added
nearly
1
million
workers
to
payrolls

since
the
trough
of
the
recession,
and
its
share
of
U.S.

nonfarm
payrolls
now
stands
at
8.2%
compared
with

7.8%
in
2008.

Texas
has
gained
1
Million
people
from
other
states

since
2000.

Time
Magazine,
Oct.
2013:
“More
than
any
other
state,

Texas
looks
like
the
future.”

Business
Insider,
Nov.
23,
2013

“I
foresee
Texas
being
the

economic
magnet
that
it
is,

con8nuing
to
grow
and
diversify
its

economy,
so
that
any
drop
in
the

price
of
oil
will
be
minimized,”
said

Greg
AbboY,
the
Governor
of

Texas.

New
York
Times,
Dec.
26,
2014

Texas
is
paying
one
million
dollars

a
year
for
a
New
York
vault
to
store

close
to
one
billion
worth
of
gold

bars.

The
2015
State
Legislature
voted
to

store
it
in
Aus8n.

PBS
NEWSHOUR,
July
5,
2015

What could be
innovated today that
will put Texas in
business tomorrow?

Will
Texas
create
the
future

or
will
Texas
only
react
to

immediate
cri8cal
events

that
could
have
been

avoided
through
future

forecas8ng?

Can
you
build
a
city
of
750,000
every
year
for

the
next
35
years
in
Texas?

How
will
you
keep
expanding
present
ci3es

and
deal
with
transporta3on,
infrastructure,

water,
energy
and
food?

How
many
power
plants
will
have
to
be
built
or

what
system(s)
will
be
supplying
the
energy?

In
Texas,
will
we
populate
the
ci3es,

and
then
plan
them?

Currently,
NO
system
can

feasibly
plan
&
create
the

infrastructure
for
those
ci8es
or

a
construc8on
system
to
build

ci8es
at
that
speed.

This
is
an

unprecedented
era
of

accelera8ng
change
in

human
existence
where

the
past
will
no
longer

predict
the
future.

Can
you
double
the
number
of
schools,

hospitals
and
universi8es
in
35
years
in

Texas?

Who
will
pay
for
the
construc8on?

Can
you
double
the
number
of

teachers
and
doctors
in
35
years?

Katy,
Texas,
a
suburb
of
Houston,
will

be
larger
than
the
city
of
PiYsburgh

within
two
years.

The
Katy
school
parking
lots
are
being

turned
into
classroom
space
with
the

aid
of
portable
buildings.

The
Houston
Chronicle,
Sept.
23,
2014

Enrollment
in
Texas
Colleges
and
Universi8es
is

around
1.5
million
students
in
83
ins8tu8ons
of

higher
educa8on
in
2014.

The
popula8on
of
Texas
will
double
in
35
years.

What
prepara8ons
does
Texas
need
to
take
now

to
house
the
expected
increase?

Texas
has
around
1,030
school
districts
that

serve
5,151,925
students
in
K-‐12.

With
popula8on
predicted
to
double
in
35
years,

what
does
the
State
of
Texas
have
to
do
now
to

meet
the
needs
of
the
ci8zens?

Texas
ranks
46th
in
educa8on

funding
per
student
in
the
United

States
and
30th
in
teacher
salaries.

The
Texas
legislature
has
already
reduced
school

funding
resul8ng
in
loss
of
teachers
and
won’t
fund

new
medical
school
graduates
residency
programs

resul8ng
in
many
of
the
graduates
going
to
other

states
who
will
gladly
pay
for
their
internships.

They
usually
stay
in
the
state
that
funds
them.

Texas
ranks
45th
na8onally
in
physician
to
popula8on

ra8o.

With
the
global
shortage
of

physicians,
nurses,
therapists
and

related
healthcare
personnel,
how

will
hospitals

change
and
morph

to
insure
proper
healthcare
for
an

expanding
popula3on?

Texas
has
about
630
hospitals
with
83,000
licensed

beds.

With
popula8on
doubling
in
35
years,
what
plans
must

Texas
take
to
maintain
quality
healthcare
for
the
State

of
Texas?

Texas
leads
the
na8on
in
the
most

uninsured
for
health
care.

Texas
ranks
dead
last
in
record

keeping
security!

With
the
growth
of
Texas
and
double

the
number
of
cars,
will
commu8ng
be

feasible
with
forecastable
gridlocks?

Imagine
increasing
the
number
of

automobiles
by
double
or
more
in

Texas
ci8es
by
2040.

That
is
25
years
to
build
the

infrastructure,
roads
and/or
rapid

transporta8on
system
to
avoid

gridlock!

Most
of
the
Worst
Highways
For
Traﬃc
in
Texas
Are
in

Houston!

The
Texas
A&M
Transporta8on
Ins8tute
released
its

annual
list
of
the
most
congested
highways
in
the
state

this
week.

You
can
probably
guess
where
they
are
already
if

you've
ever
driven
in
Houston,
DFW,
or
Aus8n!

Texas
Monthly,
Sept
11,
2014

Air
pollu8on
kills
more
people
each
year

than
any
disease.

4
million
people
is
the
es8mated
total.

Houston
and
Dallas/Ft.
Worth
rank
#6
&

#8
for
most
polluted
ci8es
in
the
US.

The
Economist,
Sept.
22,
2014

Houston
and
Dallas
are
Texas’
biggest
popula8on

centers,
but
the
Lone
Star
state’s
capital
city
ranked

higher
than
both
of
its
major
metropolitan
areas
in

the
INRIX
traﬃc
study.

Aus8n
ranked
fourth
for
gridlock
in
the
2014
study

and
third
for
the
worst
ci8es
to
drive
in
the
U.S.

The
Hill,
Nov.
30,
2014

Bullet
trains-‐monorails

Imagine
over
double
the
number
of

people
in
Texas
by
2050
and
the

infrastructure,
water,
food
and
energy

needed
to
support
those
numbers.

Urban
sprawl
could
result
taking
over

farmland
and
crea8ng
more

conges8on.

Think
condos
and
planned
urban

centers
instead
of
suburban
sprawl.

Ci8es
and
their
inhabitants’
consump8on
account
for
about

70%
of
global
emissions.

They
are
also
where
almost
all
the
world’s
net
popula8on

growth
will
occur
in
the
next
20
years.

Ci8es
must
be
encouraged
to
grow
dense,
not
spread
out,

with
good
public
transport,
not
clogged
highways.

Sprawl
wastes
money.

It
ends
up
subsidized
through
the
provision
of
more
extensive

systems
of
roads,
sewers
and
the
like;
it
reduces
the
gains
in

produc8vity
that
agglomera8on
provides.

The
report
reckons
that
sprawl
costs
America
$400
billion
a

year
and
quotes
research
from
China
that
says
labor

produc8vity
would
rise
9%
if
its
ci8es
were
denser.

The
Economist,
Sept.
22,
2014

Working
from
home
with
high
speed

Internet
and
virtual-‐reality
could
ease

the
impact.

AT&T
has
40%
of
its
workforce

working
from
home.

Virtual office benefits from home
offices:
Less city infrastructure
Less office buildings required
Less freeways needed
Less cost for gasoline/cars

Once we have full-immersion virtual-
reality environments incorporating all of
the senses which will be feasible by the
late 2020s, there will be no reason to
utilize real ofﬁces.
Real estate will become virtual.
Ray Kurzweil

What will that do to migration
demographic patterns?

What new jobs will that create?

What will VR do to the hospitality
industry when an international board
member or speaker can appear in
person as a hologram instead of in
person?
What about virtual classrooms?

By
2025-‐2030
over
65
popula8on
will

double
in
the
U.S.
and
will
live
longer

than
an
any
previous
genera8on.

U.S.
Census
Bureau

A
graph
of
global
life
expectancy
over

3me
looks
like
an
escalator
rising

smoothly.

With
each
passing
year,
the
newly

born
live
about
three
months
longer

than
those
born
the
prior
year.

The
Atlan8c,
Oct.
2014

There
is
a
Silver
Tsunami

sweeping
through
Texas
and
the

world.

This
means
innova8on
at
the

intersec8on
of
health
care
and

technology.

Texas
is
expected
to
become
both

older
and
more
diverse
in
the

coming
decades,
with
the
elderly

and
Hispanics
in
par8cular
taking

up
a
greater
propor8on
of
the

popula8on.

Texas,
which
grew
20.6
percent
overall
since

2000,
had
a
25.5
percent
increase
among

residents
65
and
older
and
a
28.3
percent

increase
among
people
85
and
older.

Texas'
2.6
million
popula3on
of
people
65
and

older
accounted
for
about
10
percent
of
the

state's
total
popula3on.

Statesman,
Nov.
30,
2011

Nursing
homes
and
re3rement

communi3es
will
be
in
high

demand
as
numbers
double.

There
is
NO
more
fresh
water
in

the
world
today
than
2000
years

ago
when
the
popula8on
was
3%

of
the
present!

Water
will
become
a
more
pressing

problem
than
oil,
and
the
quan3ty,

quality
and
distribu3on
of
water

will
pose
significant
scien3fic,

technological
and
ecological

difficul3es
as
well
as
serious

poli3cal
and
economic
challenges.

By
2040,
at
least
3.5
billion

people
will
run
short
of
water.

By
2050,
fully
2/3’s
of
the
world’s

popula8on
could
be
living
in

regions
with
chronic
shortages
of

water.

Globally
there
has
been
a
three-‐fold

popula3on
increase
in
the
past

century
and
a
six-‐fold
increase
in

water
consump3on.

By
2030,
there
will
be
40%
less
water

than
is
needed
due
to
popula3on
and

GDP
growth
and
demand.

Washington
Post,
Aug.
5,
2014

The
link
between
water,
food

and
energy
is
strong!

The
average
human
drinks
4

liters
of
water
per
day
while
500

8mes
as
much
water
is
required

to
produce
our
daily
food
totals.

As
murky
water
snakes
through
a
man-‐made

wetland
between
Dallas
and
Houston,
its

shallow
ponds
of
lush
vegeta3on
slowly
ﬁlter

out
phosphorous
and
nitrates
un3l,
a
week

later,
the
water
runs
clear
as
a
creek
into
the

area
drinking
supply.

It
is
supplying
an
addi3onal
65,000
gallons
per

day
to
the
Richland-‐Chambers
Reservoir.

Associated
Press,
Aug.
4,
2014

According
to
the
World
Water
Council,

recycled
sewage
will
be
a
source
of

drinking
water
in
ci8es
around
the

world
within
the
next
three
decades.

Washington
Post,
Aug.
5,
2014

Wichita
Falls,
the
Texas
city
of
more

than
104,000,
suﬀering
the
worst

drought
on
record,
is
about
to

become
the
ﬁrst
place
in
Texas
to

treat
sewage
and
pump
it
directly

back
to
residents.

Bloomberg,
April
28,
2014

Big
Springs,
Texas
and
El
Paso
are

also
recycling
sewage
for
drinking

water.

In
20
years,
the
majority
of
ci8es
in

Texas
will
be
drinking
recycled

sewage
water.

Freshwater
in
the
Eagle
Ford
Shale
-‐-‐
a
geological

forma8on
that
encompasses
30
Texas
coun8es,

including
Brazos
-‐-‐
is
being
drawn
from
the
aquifers
2.5

8mes
faster
than
the
replenish
rate,
according
to
key

ﬁndings
from
a
Texas
AM
Bush
School
of
Government

and
Public
Service
study.

As
a
result,
and
as
hydraulic
fracturing,
or
fracking,

ac8vity
con8nues
to
grow
within
the
massive
shale,

researchers
who
conducted
the
study
es8mated
Texas

could
face
a
2.7-‐trillion-‐gallon
water
shorxall
by
2060.

The
Eagle,
Dec.
16,
2014

Major
ci8es
are
taking
water
from

agriculture
to
meet
the
needs
of

growing
cites.

Mexico
City,
Cairo,
Beijing,
San

Diego,
Los
Angeles,
Las
Vegas,

Denver
and
El
Paso.

Farmers
surrounding
the
major

ci3es
have
found
that
the
price
of

water
far
exceeds
the
value
of
the

crops
they
can
produce.

Ci8es
are
buying
water
rights
from

farmers
and
ranchers.

The
highly
produc3ve
land
owned

by
these
farmers
will
become

wasteland.

The
Rio
Grande
is
disappearing.
Demand
for
water
is

growing
as
average
temperatures
rise
faster
than
they

ever
have
in
the
past
11,000
years.

The
water
that
remains
is
being
fought
over
by
the

countries
and
states
that
agreed
to
share
the
river.
At

the
same
3me,
a
border
fence
is
being
built
along
its

banks.

Texas
Tribune,
Oct.
16,
2014

Some3mes
the
Rio
Grande

doesn’t
make
it
to
the
Gulf
of

Mexico.

Aus8n
City
Council
predicts
that

Lake
Travis
will
run
dry
by
2016.

Major
water
restric8ons
will
be

ordered
to
slow
the
demise.

The
water
level
is
48%
of
capacity.

The
2000s
were
the
hoYest
decade
on
record

for
the
US
and
2012
was
the
hoYest
year
ever

on
record.

The
Western
drought
of
recent
years
represents

the
driest
condi8ons
in
800
years
and
cost
Texas

and
Oklahoma
$10
billion
in
agriculture
in
2011

2012.

Mother
Jones,
May
6,
2014

On
May
14,
the
Drought
Center
reported
that

“excep8onal
drought”
had
completely

dissipated
from
Texas
and
Oklahoma
for
the
ﬁrst

8me
since
July
2012.

The
Union
of
Concerned
Scien8sts
noted
that

the
combina8on
of
a
burgeoning
El
Niño
and

record-‐breaking
ocean
surface
temperatures
in

April
likely
“revs
up
the
hydrological
cycle”
in

the
region
for
climate
change.

Scien8ﬁc
American,
May
27,
2015

In
May
of
2014,
71%
of
Texas
was

in
severe
drought.

In
May
of
2015,
Texas
is
dealing

with
extensive
ﬂooding
due
to
the

weYest
month
in
recorded
Texas

history.

Wall
Street
Journal,
May29,
2015

“We’re
not
ready
to
call
this
drought
history,”

said
LCRA
Execu8ve
Vice
President
of
Water.

“We’re
in
much
beYer
shape
in
terms
of
water

supply
than
we
were
just
a
month
ago,
but
we

don’t
want
anyone
to
put
their
guard
down
too

soon.

While
we
are
seeing
higher
lake
levels
than
we

have
seen
in
some
8me,
we
also
know
from

history
that
droughts
can
persist
aner
heavy

rains.

KXAN
News,
July
16,
2015

When
the
atmosphere
heats
up
by
1

degrees
C,
we
can
expect
three
to
four

8mes
as
many
superstorms.

But
if
forecasts
hold
true
and

temperatures
rise
by
2
degrees
C,
the

number
of
superstorms
will
increase

tenfold
by
2100.

The
Futurist,
Jan.
2014

Last
month,
2014,
was
the
warmest
August

globally
since
records
began
being
kept
in

1880,
NASA
reported
Monday.

The
globe
just
keeps
warming.

Climate
Progress,
Sept.
15,
2014

Ci8es
are
heat
islands
and
can
be
14%
higher
in

temperature
than
the
surrounding
areas.

Buildings,
roads,
lack
of
plants
that
cool
the
air

by
evapora8ng
water
and
heat
generated
by
lots

of
human
bodies.

Business
Insider,
Aug.
29,
2013

Rapidly
warming
oceans
today
could
destabilize

methane
sediments
and
result
in
another
massive

release
of
methane
that
could
raise
global

temperatures
by
more
than
10.8
degrees
F.

The
ecological
effects
of
such
a
temperature
rise

would
be
more
like
dystopian
science
fic8on
than

scien8fic
thinking
about
climate
change
to
date.

The
Futurist,
Aug.
2014

According
the
U.S.
Department
of
Agriculture,

73
million
acres
of
farmland
in
the
United
States

were
taken
out
of
produc8on
between
1990
and

2012.

Similar
trends
can
be
seen
worldwide.

The
reasons
are
many,
but
three
broad

categories
are
deser8ﬁca8on,
rising
oceans,
and

urbaniza8on.

MIT
Technology
Review,
March
2015

We
are
truly
living
in
a
state
of
denial
when
the

greater
Houston
area
con3nues
to
push
south

into
areas
that
are
highly
vulnerable
to
storm

surge,
the
Port
of
Houston
at
the
head
of

Galveston
Bay
con3nues
to
expand
and
the
City
of

Galveston
refuses
to
adopt
a
setback
policy
for

new
construc3on
along
the
Gulf
shoreline.

CITE,
winter
2014

An
analysis
of
52
3de
gauges
in
communi3es

stretching
from
Portland,
Maine
to
Freeport,

Texas
shows
that
most
of
these
communi3es

will
experience
a
steep
increase
in
the
number

and
severity
of
3dal
flooding
events
over
the

coming
decades,
with
significant
implica3ons

for
property,
infrastructure,
and
daily
life
in

affected
areas.

Scien8fic
American,
Oct.
8,
2014

Global
warming
is
also
exacerba3ng
extreme

rainfall,
because
on
a
warmer
planet,
the
air

can
hold
more
water
vapor.

The
U.S.
has
lost
coastline
over
the
last
century

and
over
the
next
century,
sea
level
is

projected
to
increase
by
one
to
four
feet.

Mother
Jones,
May
6,
2014

In
January
of
2014,
the
Houston

Chronicle
said
that
scien8sts

predict
that
Galveston
will
be
two

thirds
its
size
within
30
years
due

to
rising
waters,
eroding
beaches

and
land
subsiding.

A
proposed
“Ike
Dike”
to
protect
the
Galveston/
Houston
area
from
hurricane
storm
surges

should
incorporate
ameni8es
such
as
business

parks,
public
spaces
and
pedestrian

thoroughfares,
elements
that
could
s8mulate

economic
and
social
opportuni8es
while

enhancing
the
earthwork’s
visual
appeal,

concludes
research
funded
by
Texas
AM’s

Ins3tute
for
Sustainable
Coastal
Communi3es.

Texas
AM
Today,
June
18,
2015

Climatologists
who
have
studied
both
the

history
and
the
computer
models
on
Texas

rainfall
have
concluded
that
the
state
is
headed

for
a
very
long
period-‐-‐possibly
marked
in

hundreds
of
years-‐-‐wherein
rainfall
con8nues
to

decrease,
and
more
of
the
state
becomes

desert-‐like,
a
process
known
as
deser8ﬁca8on.

State
of
Texas
Drought
Project,
May
17,
2014

More
drought
means
more
wildfires
and
in

2011,
Arizona
and
New
Mexico
had
the
largest

wildfires
in
recorded
history,
affec8ng
more

than
694,000
acres.

Texas
saw
unprecedented
wildfires
and
3.8

million
acres
consumed
in
the
state.

Mother
Jones,
May
6,
2014

Texas
is
uniquely
vulnerable
to
a
changing

climate.

It’s
no
longer
an
issue
that
maYers
only
to
the

polar
bear
in
the
Arc8c
or
to
poor
people
living

on
low-‐lying
islands
in
the
South
Seas.

We
are
already
in
the
crosshairs
of
nearly
every

type
of
weather-‐
and
climate-‐related
natural

disaster
you
can
imagine.

Climate
change
is
ratche8ng
up
our

vulnerabili8es
to
unprecedented
levels.

Texas
Observer,
Dec.
18,
2015

Texas
has
enough
wind
power

and
solar
energy
to
power
the

na8on.

Texas
is
the
No.
1
producer
of
wind
energy
in
the

United
States,
with
nearly
13,000
megawaYs
of

installed
power
and
over
1
million
megawaYs
of
as-‐yet-‐
untapped
poten8al.

Last
spring,
Texas
broke
record
aner
record
for
the

most
electricity
ever
generated
by
wind
energy
in
the

state

Texas
Observer,
Dec.
18,
2015

Texas
isn’t
a
leader
in
solar
energy—yet—but

there
are
over
300
companies
in
the
state

working
to
change
that,
and
Texas
is
the
fastest-‐
growing
in
terms
of
new
solar
energy.

According
to
the
Solar
Energy
Industries

Associa3on,
Texas
is
the
state
to
watch,
with

enough
solar
poten3al
to
power
not
just
the

United
States,
but
the
en3re
world.

Texas
Observer,
Dec.
18,
2015

Texas
is
already
a
leader
in
low-‐carbon
technology.

Texas
Tech
is
home
to
the
Na8onal
Wind
Ins8tute.

UT-‐Aus8n
is
a
world
leader
in
carbon
capture
and
advanced

lithium-‐ion
baYeries.

Other
Texas
universi8es
oﬀer
exper8se
in
advanced

biofuels,
geothermal
energy
and
advanced
materials.

It’s
hard
to
imagine
a
future
for
Texas
where
energy

doesn’t
play
a
central
role.

The
ques8on
is
whether
we
can
rise
to
the
challenge
of

preparing
for
a
changing
climate
and
a
carbon-‐free

economy.

Texas
Observer,
Dec.
18,
2015

Construc3on
begins
in
Texas
on
world’s
largest

carbon
capture
facility.

The
Petra
Nova
project
is
located
near
Houston,

Texas
and
is
a
joint
venture
between
the
U.S.

DOE,
NRG
Energy
and
JX
Nippon.
With
a
current

price
tag
topping
$470
million,
the
project
is

expected
to
capture
up
to
90%
of
emissions

from
240
MW
of
electricity
genera8on
capacity.

Scien8ﬁc
American,
July
18,
2014

41
percent
of
all
freshwater
consumed
in
the
U.S.
was

for
thermoelectric
cooling.

Power
plants
produce
excess
heat,
requiring
cooling

cycles
that
use
water.

Only
wind
and
solar
voltaic
energy
produc3on
require

minimal
water.

The
Washington
Post,
Aug.
5,
2014

The
only
reason
Texas
didn’t
experience
rolling

blackouts
in
the
summer
of
2011
was
wind

turbines
producing
10-‐18%
of
energy
needs.

In
March
of
2014,
Texas
produced
37%
of
its

electricity
by
wind
thanks
to
a
new

transmission
line.

Washington
Post,
Aug.
5,
2014

With
the
increase
of
27
million

people
in
35
years,
will
Texas
need

to
morph
to
solar
and
wind
energy

to
meet
the
energy
needs
and
cut

down
on
greenhouse
emissions?

December
of
2014,
The
Texas

Tribune
said
in
15-‐20
years
oil

prices
will
have
not
determine
the

price
of
energy
in
Texas
with
the

technological
improvements
and

growth
of
solar
and
wind
turbines.

Electricity
u8li8es
are
facing
“disrup8ve
challenges”

comparable
to
the
way
the
ﬁxed-‐line
telephone
industry
was

shaken
up
by
mobile.

The
u3li3es
worry
that
as
more
businesses
and
households

use
solar,
wind
and
other
sources
to
generate
their
own

power,
they
will
lose
customers
and
revenues,
while
s3ll

bearing
the
costs
of
running
the
grid.

The
u8li8es
would
then
have
to
charge
higher
rates,
losing

more
customers,
worsening
their
posi8on
further.

In
the
industry,
they
call
it
the
“death
spiral”.

Financial
Times,
Jan
13,
2015

The
City
of
Georgetown
and
Georgetown

U8li8es
Systems
announced
Wednesday
it
has

signed
an
agreement
to
make
it
one
of
the
ﬁrst

communi8es
in
the
U.S.
powered
exclusively
by

solar
and
wind
energy.

The
City
of
Pﬂugerville
is
crea8ng
a
800
acre

solar
collector
farm
to
provide
all
of
its
energy.

March
18,
2015

Oil

gas
may
not
be
a
death
spiral,
says

Lyndon
Rive,
chief
execu8ve
of
SolarCity,
a

solar
company,
but
it
is
a
“change
spiral”.

“When
you’ve
had
a
monopoly
for
a

hundred
years,
and
you’ve
never
seen

change,
change
may
seem
like
death
to

you.”

Financial
Times,
Jan.
13,
2015

Over
the
past
four
years,
the

numbers
have
risen
threefold
for

businesses
and
fourfold
for
homes,

as
the
cost
of
solar
power
has

plunged
thanks
to
eﬃciency

improvements.

Financial
Times,
Jan.
13,
2015

IKEA
is
leading
the
way
in
becoming
a
zero-‐
energy
company
by
2020.

IKEA
has
wind
farms
that
already
power
38

stores,
a
factory
and
service
center
in
the
U.S.

and
has
put
aside
2
billion
dollars
to
go
zero-‐
energy
world
wide.

Washington
Post,
April
15,
2014

Key
Findings:

ü  Cri3cal
water
supplies
are
being
drawn
down
faster

than
they
are
being
replenished.

ü  Higher
concentra8ons
of
pollutants
in
aquifers
make

drinking
water
increasingly
unsafe.

ü  Aging
water
pipes
and
infrastructure
are
crea3ng
a

heightened
danger
of
sinkholes.

ü  Using
water
for
irriga8on
and
fossil
fuel
extrac8on
is

increasing
strains
on
the
water
supply,
and
raising
food

and
energy
prices.

ü  Desaliniza3on
—
increasingly
being
used
to

supplement
fresh
water
needs
—
is
extremely
energy-‐
intensive
and
expensive.

A
far
worse
rendi8on
of
the
water
crisis
will
inevitably

unfold
across
Las
Vegas,
Southern
California,
North

Texas
and
the
Arizona
ci8es
of
Phoenix
and
Tucson.

Aquifers
that
should
have
lasted
un8l
2050
are
being

pumped
dry.

Natural
News,
Dec.
3,
2014

Another
example
of
major
concern
and
consequence
is
deple8on
of

the
largest
and
most
important
underground
source
of
water
in
the

U.S.,
the
Ogallala
Aquifer
under
the
High
Plains
stretching
from

southern
South
Dakota
through
parts
of
Nebraska,
Wyoming,

Colorado,
Kansas,
Oklahoma,
New
Mexico,
and
northern
Texas.

The
aquifer
has
been
the
major
source
of
water
for
municipal
and

industrial
development
for
decades.
Most
signiﬁcantly
it
has
been

cri3cal
for
agriculture
in
the
American
heartland
oh
referred
to
as

the
bread
basket
not
just
of
the
U.S.,
but
the
world.

Unfortunately,
the
era
of
blindly
assuming
the
largess
of
the
aquifer

reﬂects
an
unlimited
source
of
water
is
des8ned
to
come
to
end.

For
decades
the
Ogallala
has
tapped
at
rates
thousands
of
3mes

greater
than
it
is
being
restored.

Washington
Post,
March
22,
2013

The
Ogallala
Aquifer
was
formed
about
10
million
years

ago
when
water
ﬂowed
onto
the
plains
from
retrea8ng

glaciers
and
Rocky
Mountain
streams.

For
all
intents
and
purposes,
it
is
no
longer

being
recharged.
Once
it’s
gone,
it’s
gone,

end
of
story.

The
current
es8mate
is
that,
if
irriga8on
demands
con8nue

to
exploit
the
aquifer
at
rates
comparable
on
average
to

those
over
the
last
10
years,
it
will
be
essen8ally
used
up
in

only
25
years.

Washington
Post,
March
22,
2013

The
present
rate
of
pumping
from
the

Ogallala
Aquifer
will
deplete
the

water
source
by
2040.

If
conserva8on
methods
are
put
into

place,
it
will
s8ll
be
gone
by
2070
and

will
take
6,000
years
to
reﬁll.

Washington
Post,
Aug.
10,
2012

If
the
vast
aquifers
in
Saudi
or
the

arid
southwestern
U.S.
are
depleted,

the
loss
of
irriga8on
water
means

the
end
of
agriculture.

A
decade
ago,
prospec3ve
water
marketers
easily
secured

the
rights
to
pump
more
than
20
billion
gallons
of
water

annually
from
the
Carrizo-‐Wilcox
aquifer
in
Central
Texas’

Burleson
County.

The
company
now
holding
those
rights,
BlueWater,

is
nego8a8ng
a
$3
billion
deal
to
send
much
of
that
water
to

San
Antonio.

Texas
Tribune,
Sept.
3,
2014

The
San
Antonio
Water
System
board
unanimously

approved
a
$3.4
billion
contract
to
pipe
in
50,000
acre-‐
feet,
or
16
billion
gallons,
of
water
a
year
from

underneath
Central
Texas'
Burleson
County
star8ng
in

2019.

The
contract
is
with
two
companies,
Aus8n-‐based

BlueWater
and
the
Spanish
company
Abengoa,
whose

joint
venture
is
called
the
Vista
Ridge
pipeline.

Texas
Tribune,
Sept.
30,
2014

Texas,
which
consumes
a
few
million
acre
feet
of
water
per

year,
has
2.7
billion
acre-‐feet
of
brackish
water.

Why
wait
for
breakthroughs
in
materials
to
make

desalina3on
widely
aﬀordable?

Instead,
pump
that
brackish
water
a
rela8vely
short
distance

to
the
surface
and
then
desalinate
it.

In
many
places
this
might
slash
energy
use
and
make

desalina8on
more
aﬀordable.

MIT
Technology
Review,
Sept.
23,
2014

The
torren8al
storms
of
May
2015
brought

trillions
of
gallons
of
water
of
which
3
trillion

ﬂowed
into
the
Gulf
of
Mexico
created
a
dead

zone
and
another
2
trillion
gallons
will
likely

evaporate
from
state
reservoirs
by
year’s
end.

The
lost
water
would
be
enough
to
serve
Texas’

booming
popula8on
for
an
en8re
year.

Associated
Press,
June
15,
2015

Widely
implemented
aquifer
storage
and

recovery
should
be
among
the
major
addi8ons

to
the
state’s
water
infrastructure.

A
major
beneﬁt
of
aquifers
is
that
their
water

doesn’t
evaporate,
which
makes
them
an
ideal

water
source
in
warmer
climates.
Pumping

sta8ons
can
inject
water
into
aquifers
during

wet
8mes
and
withdraw
it
when
needed.

Associated
Press,
June
15,
2015

Texas’
popula8on
is
expected
to
grow
by
82%
in

the
next
half
century
and
its
water
needs
by

more
than
40%
by
2060.

With
enough
pumping
facili8es,
the
state
could

draw
on
an
es8mated
storage
capacity
of
about

163
trillion
gallons-‐15
8mes
its
current
drinking

water
reservoir
capacity.

Associated
Press,
June
15,
2015

The
water
scarcity
could
also
pose
huge
problems
for

the
burgeoning
domes3c
energy
industry.

A
recent
Ceres
research
paper
found
that
a
lot
of

hydraulic
fracturing—
a
process
that
uses
tons
of
water

—
is
taking
place
in
water-‐scarce
regions,
with
nearly

47%
of
wells
located
in
highly-‐stressed
water
basins,

including
92%
of
wells
in
Colorado
and
51%
of
wells
in

Texas.

Business
Insider,
May
22,
2013

Texas
is
caught
in
the
perfect
storm
of
drought.

Years
of
unregulated

expansion
and
sprawl,

limitless
groundwater
pumping,
and
poor

conserva8on
management
prac8ces
have
set
up

the
state
for
disaster.

Now
come
the
eﬀects
of
climate
change,
with

increased
temperatures
and
evapora3on
rates,

and
the
result
is
a
disaster.

State
of
Texas
Drought
Project,
May
17,
2014

You
life
style
will
have
to
be
adjusted
on
lush

lawns
and
tropical
landscapes.

Unless
you
can
pay
4X
or
more
for
water,
your

lawn
and
landscape
will
be
rocks
and
na8ve

plants.

Look
at
Aus8n
Green
Energy
requirements.

Google
Futurist
Ray
Kurzweil
notes
that
solar

power
has
been
doubling
every
two
years
for

the
past
30
years,
as
costs
have
been
dropping.

He
says
solar
energy
is
only
six
doublings
—
or

less
than
14
years
—
away
from
mee8ng
100

percent
of
today’s
energy
needs.

KurzweilAI,
Sept,
21,
2014

The
prices
of
solar
panels
have
fallen
75
percent

in
the
past
ﬁve
years
alone
and
will
fall
much

further
as
the
technologies
to
create
them

improve
and
scale
of
produc8on
increases.

By
2020,
solar
energy
will
be
price-‐compe88ve

with
energy
generated
from
fossil
fuels
on
an

unsubsidized
basis
in
most
parts
of
the
world.

The
Washington
Post,
Sept.
20,
2014

In
places
such
as
Germany,
Spain,
Portugal,

Australia,
and
the
Southwest
United
States,

residen8al-‐scale
solar
produc8on
has
already

reached
“grid
parity”
with
average
residen8al

electricity
prices.

The
Washington
Post,
Sept.
20,
2014

MIT
researchers
say
they
have
developed
a
material

that
comes
very
close
to
the
“ideal”
for
conver8ng

solar
energy
to
heat
(for
conversion
to
electricity).

It
should
absorb
virtually
all
wavelengths
of
light
that

reach
Earth’s
surface
from
the
sun
—
but
not
much
of

the
rest
of
the
spectrum,
since
that
would
increase
the

energy
that
is
re-‐radiated
by
the
material,
and
thus
lost

to
the
conversion
process.

KurzweilAI,
Oct.
1,
2014

Paving
parking
lots
with
solar
panels-‐
are
streets
and
highways
next?

Wired,
May
8,
2014

Wind
power,
for
example,
has
also

come
down
sharply
in
price
and
is
now

compe88ve
with
the
cost
of
new
coal-‐
burning
power
plants
in
the
United

States.

The
Washington
Post,
Sept.
2014

Texas
is
the
na8onal
leader
in
wind

energy-‐with
more
installed

capacity,
more
wind
turbines
and

more
jobs
than
any
other
state.

The
wind
energy
industry
in
Texas

has
created
thousands
of
jobs
and

provided
billions
of
dollars
in

economic
beneﬁts.

Genera8ng
wind
power
creates
no
emissions

and
uses
virtually
no
water.

The
water
consump8on
savings
from
wind

projects
in
Texas
total
more
than
7.8
billion

gallons
of
water
a
year.

The
wind
power
installed
in
Texas
will
avoid

23,103,
000
million
metric
tons
of
carbon

dioxide
emissions
a
year,
the
equivalent
of

taking
4,075,000
cars
oﬀ
the
road.

American
Wind
Energy
Associa8on,
Sept.
29,
2014

Eole
Water
has
modiﬁed
the
tradi8onal
wind

turbine
to
create
an
appliance
that
can

manufacture
water
from
air.

They
have
a
prototype
in
the
desert
near
Abu

Dhabi
that
produce
62
liters
of
water
an
hour

and
generates
electricity.

CNN
World,
April
30,
2012

If
solar
power
is
to
become
a
primary
source
of

electricity
around
the
world,
we’ll
need
cheap
ways
to

store
energy
from
the
sun
when
it
isn’t
shining.

A
paper
published
in
the
journal
Science
this
week

reports
a
major
step
toward
such
a
system.

Researchers
have
developed
a
device
that
cheaply
and

eﬃciently
converts
the
energy
in
sunlight
into

hydrogen,
which
can
be
used
as
a
fuel
and
is
easily

stored.

MIT
Technology
Review,
Sept.
24,
2014

Tesla
is
marke8ng
storage
baYeries

for
commercial
and
home
use
for

solar
panels
and
wind
generated

electricity.

There
will
be
disrup8on
of
the
en8re
fossil-‐
fuel
industry,
star8ng
with
u8lity

companies
—
which
will
face
declining

demand
and
then
bankruptcy.

Several
of
them
see
the
wri8ng
on
the

wall.

The
smart
ones
are
embracing
solar
and

wind
power.

Others
are
lobbying
to
stop
the
progress
of

solar
power
—
at
all
costs.

The
Washington
Post,
Sept.
20,
2014

We
will
go
from
deba8ng
incen8ves

for
installing
clean
energies
to

deba8ng
subsidies
for
u8lity

companies
to
keep
their
opera8ons

going.

The
Washington
Post,
Sept.
20,
2014

The
combina8on
of
water
scarcity,

global
warming
reducing
crop

produc8on
and
two
billion
people

added
to
the
earth
will
result
in

global
food
scarcity.

Can
you
live
on
less
food
in
the

future?

The
UN
Food
and
Agriculture
Organiza8on

reports
that
87%
of
global
ﬁsh
stocks
are
either

fully
exploited
or
overexploited.

Oceans
absorb
about
33%
of
human-‐generated

CO2,
but
their
ability
to
con8nue
doing
this
is

being
reduced
by
changing
acidity
and
the
die-‐
oﬀs
of
coral
reefs
and
other
living
systems.

The
Millennium
Project,
Sept.
2014

Ocean
Aquiculture
and
Agriculture

should
be
a
priority
for
Texas
with

its
extensive
coastline.

Energy,
food
and
water
are

interconnected
and
an
abundance

of
one
enables
an
abundance
of

the
others,
a
shortage
of
one
can

create
a
shortage
of
the
others.

Scien8ﬁc
American,
Jan.
2015

Food
prices
are
at
their
highest
point

in
history
and
are
likely
to
con8nue

increasing
over
the
long
term
if
there

are
no
major
innova8ons
in

produc8on
and
changes
in

consump8on.

The
Futurist,
Dec.
2011

The
average
US
household

spends
10%
of
annual
income
on

food.

The
World
Bank
forecasts
the

average
U.S.
household
will

spend
25%
of
annual
income
on

food
within
ten
years.

When
food
prices
increase
by
2.5X

by
2020,
how
will
Texas
feed
the

popula8on
within
the
State?

What
will
it
do
for
energy,
water,

food,
transporta3on
and
housing?

Texas
is
the
fastest
growing
state

in
the
union.

Global
temperature
rise
greater
than
2
degrees

Celsius
will
compromise
food
supplies
globally.

Without
more
mi8ga8on
than
is
being
done

today,
the
temperature
is
more
likely
than
not

to
rise
by
4
degrees
C
by
2100.

Scien8ﬁc
American,
UN
Report,
Nov.
6,
2014

For
every
1%
rise
in
temperature

above
the
norm
during
the

growing
season,
farmers
can

expect
a
10%
decline
in
wheat,

rice,
and
corn
yields.

CO2
inhibits
wheat,
barley,
rice,
maize,
potatoes,

peas
and
soybeans
assimila8on
of
nitrate
into

proteins,
demonstra8ng
the
the
nutri8onal
quality
of

food
crops
is
in
jeopardy
as
climate
change

intensiﬁes.

The
crops
will
loose
8%
of
their
protein
in
the
next

few
decades.

Wheat,
in
par8cular,
will
be
a
problem,
because
it

provides
1/5
of
all
protein
in
the
world’s
human
diet.

The
Californian,
Fall
2014

It
is
predicted
that

temperatures
will
rise
3.6F

this
century
and
that

means
a
twelve
to
twenty

percent
fall
in
global
food

produc8on.

Tidal

Wave
Energy
promise
gives
Texas
an
edge.

Ocean
Aquiculture
and
Agriculture
should
be
a
priority

for
Texas
with
its
extensive
coastline.

The
next
major
food
revolu8on
will
be
ver8cal

agriculture,
in
which
we
grow
food
in
ver8cal
buildings

rather
than
horizontal
land:

Ver8cal
agriculture
will
be
able
to
recycle
all
nutrients,

capture
all
pollutants,
and
require
no
use
of
an8bio8cs

and
pes8cides.

Today
over
one
third
of
usable
land
is
devoted
to

agriculture
(70%
of
which
is
for
animals
for
meat

produc3on).

Ver8cal
agriculture
will
free
up
almost
all
of
this.

KurzweilAI,
Oct.
10,
2014

We
need
to
build
the

infrastructure
of
the
future,
not

just
patch
up
that
of
the
past.

Failure
to
do
so
will
only
stall

and
hold
back
recovery.

The
Great
Reset-‐Richard
Florida

ü Change
is
challenging.

ü Change
is
thrilling.

ü Change
can
usher
in
great

trepida3on.

ü Change
is
everywhere.

ü Change
is
inevitable.

The
world’s
biggest

problems

will
create
the

world’s
greatest

opportuni3es!

… we have attempted to
offer you the following
three key learning
takeaways in answering
the following
fundamental question:

What can we do to
face the future…?

(Adapted from Natrass Altamore)
Society
Today
Unsustainable Direction

Society
Today
Unsustainable Direction
ACTION
Margin
for
Action
Stabilize
Reverse
(Adapted from Natrass Altamore)

(2) We need to be Observant...

* Based on the “the boiling frog” analogy…

Learning/
Teaching
Engagement
(Practice, Outreach,
and Service)
Research/
Creative Work/
ScholarshipResearching what
is taught and how
Transdisciplinarity
Teaching what is
researched
The
FUTURE

The FUTURE
Service
Learning
CARC Students
Other TAMU Students
Other U.S. Students
International Students
Continuing
Education
AEC Professionals
Other Professionals
Government Officials
The Community
K-12
Education
Vocational
and Community
College Education
Traditional Formal
University Education
Disciplinary and
Interdisciplinary
Bachelor, Master, and
Doctoral Levels

The K–Grey life-long learning education pipeline:
Multiple Learner Constituencies
Workforce Learners
(with a high school degree or higher)
Workforce Learners
(without a formal degree at any level)
Pre–K
High School Degree
2 Yr. College Degree
4 Yr. University Degree (Bachelors)
Graduate Degree (Masters)
Doctoral Degree
Grey
High School Non-graduates
College Non-graduates
University Non-graduates
Graduate Studies Non-graduates
Doctoral Studies Non-graduates
Post-Doctoral Work
The FUTURE

203
Thank you!
Prof. Rodney Hill
rhill@arch.tamu.edu

Dr. Jorge Vanegas
jvanegas@tamu.edu

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Texas is the Fastest Growing State in the Union