The Optimistic Futurist can provide academically supervised Internships or Service Learning opportunities.  These experiences will be supervised remotely (via Skype or similar communications methods). Qualified...

Creative Financing and School Adds Solar High School Produces Solar Electricity and Saves $25,000 Annually by Jon Kennedy School districts across the country are saving...

Suburban Design cuts Crime 90%, Energy 70%, and Water 33% by Francis P. Koster, Ed.D. The Village Homes community began development in 1975 and is...

Happiness and Emotional Health Designed into City Planning by Francis P. Koster, Ed.D. It’s no accident that San Luis Obispo is the happiest city in the...

Public and Workplace Smoking Bans Lower Heart Attacks 36% By Rhiannon Bowman Smoking creates more than 400,000 premature deaths in the United States annually. When...

  Internet System Links Small Farmers and Restaurants - Creates Jobs (Content modified from an article in Parade January 24, 2010)[i], and the Farmers Fresh...

Internet System Links Small Farmers and Restaurants - Creates Jobs   by Francis P. Koster, Ed.D. Centralization and the apparent need for large economy of...

Innovative Agreement Stimulates Major Increase in Solar Electric Sites! by Francis P. Koster, Ed.D. A straightforward contracting mechanism has proven to be a major enabler...

Students Show Blue Ribbon Companies How to Save $89 Million   Climate Corps has found ways for corporations to save $89 million in operational cost...

 Program for Former Prisoners and Recovering Substance Abusers Places 85% of its Graduates in Jobs by Jonathan Kennedy  With an annual budget of $250,000 the...