Presented by Laura Schlehuber This session highlights the best student products from the award-winning graduate program in Foresight at the University of Houston. The session will include the best essays, forecasts, scenarios, and plans from the next generation of professional futurists.

1. The Future of
Measuring
National Performance
2030
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2. Reliance on Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Current Conditions
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3. Working more hours and are paid less per
hours worked
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4. Pension Coverage Rate Shrinks
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5. Inequality grows with GDP
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6. Biocapacity levels decreasing
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7. What if we stay on
this course?
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12. IT’S TIME FOR
GDP TO RETIRE!

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16. Alternative Futures
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Laura's GPI Calculation
Economic Environmental Social
WFS Payment -
U of Houston Payment -
Hotel ($200)
TOTAL ($200)

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Laura's GPI Calculation
Economic Environmental Social
Bottle of Water $200
Paper Free! $300
Noise Pollution ($500)
TOTAL $0

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Laura's GPI Calculation
Economic Environmental Social
Terribly Nervous ($500)
Great Audience $2,000
TOTAL $1,500

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TOTAL ($200) TOTAL $0 TOTAL $1,500
GRAND TOTAL (AVERAGE)
Laura's GPI Calculation
Economic Environmental Social
$433

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http://www.demos.org/publication/does-growth-equal-progress-myth-gdp
http://www.presstv.cz/Program/278532.html
http://www.emagazine.com/issue/may-june-1999/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/9102853/Older-workers-
forced-to-do-overtime-for-no-more-pay.html
http://www.greenvitals.net/greenvitalsnet/2011/7/29/europes-appetite-for-seafood-and-
overfishing-threatening-dom.html
http://www.topantisnoringdevices.com/snoring-and-obesity-is-your-throat-fat/
http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/articles/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness#mediaviewer/File:Bhutan_Gross_Nati
onal_Happiness.jpg
http://www.dnr.maryland.gov/mdgpi/
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25021369
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/06/22/how-businesses-are-banking-natural-capital
http://www.newyorker.com/politics/debates
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