Dear 2015: Group Blogging Event
Dear 2015
On October 6, 2015, Meeting of the Minds and Morris Strategy Group invited civic-minded leaders across sectors to participate in a group blogging event focused on the prompt:
“The year is 2050. Write a letter to the people of 2015 describing what your city is like, and give them advice on the next 35 years.”
Bloggers were asked to write their response to the prompt and publish it on their website at exactly 9am, local time, on October 6th, 2015. 38 bloggers participated. Their responses are listed below.
Participants
Mary Skelton Roberts
Senior Program Officer for Climate, Barr Foundation
Rose Grymes
Deputy Director of NASA Ames Partnerships Directorate, NASA
Anthony Flint
Fellow and Director of Public Affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
John Addison
Author, Save Gas, Save the Planet
Jim Clifton
CEO, Gallup
MarySue Barrett
President, Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC)
Ed Church
Executive Director, Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship
Richard Mitchell
Director of Planning & Building Services, City of Richmond, CA
Kim Zeuli
Senior Vice President Director, Research and Advisory Practice Director, Communications, ICIC
Boris Karsch
Vice President Strategy, Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc.
Aaron Renn
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Lewis Leff
Business Process Consultant with the Office of Sustainability, City of Austin, Texas
Shelley Poticha
Director of Urban Solutions, Natural Resources Defense Fund
Matt Ross
Energy Strategist, Energyworx
Tiffany Edwards
Blogger, A Radiant City
Sue Lebeck
Chair Emeritus, City Protocol Task Force
Jason Anderson
President and CEO, Cleantech San Diego
Ryan Croft
Co-founder & COO, TransitScreen
Sharon Chang
Partner, THNK
Lev Gonick
CEO/Chief Executive, OneCommunity
Margie Caust
Urban Strategist
Brandi Clark Burton
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Mayor Steve Adler, City of Austin
Jason Reed
Industry Analyst, Internet & Communication Technologies, Frost & Sullivan
Daniel Hoornweg
Energy Systems Engineering Professor, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology
Gordon Stratford
Senior Vice President and Design Principal, HOK
Bryan Jones & Jordan Lambie
HOK
Justin Bibb
Managing Principal, Morris Strategy Group
Ian T. Brown
Managing Consultant, Morris Strategy Group
Adedayo Aderibigbe
Senior Consultant, Morris Strategy Group
Paul Doherty
President and CEO, The Digit Group, Inc.
Josep Roig
Secretary General, UCLG
Bettina Tratz-Ryan
Research VP, Gartner Deutschland GmbH
Katherine Woodhouse
Global Business Development Director (Cities Segment), Schneider Eletric
Kim Chandler McDonald
Author, Innovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World
Jessie F. Hahn
Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds
Anne Schwieger
Founder, Digital Equity Project
Serene Chan
Industry Manager, APAC ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan
Gordon Feller
Director, Internet of Everything – Market Enablement, Cisco
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