Three expert-moderated seminars: Energy Controversies, Global Financial Crisis, and Web 3.0, were offered to Socrates participants on February 12-15 in Aspen, CO.
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Nov 14 2009
21st Century Energy - Can it be Clean, Secure, and Affordable, Or Must We Choose?
The way we produce and use energy -- principally but not exclusively for the generation of electricity and for transportation -- is at the nexus of three major sets of issues that confront us and future generations. First, can we produce energy cleanly?
Oct 24 2009
Lessons Not Learned: Wall Street and the Crisis Next Time
Predictions about when the economy will actually start to recover keep slipping -- first it was the first half of this year, then it was the second half. Then it was early 2010, and now it's mid-2010. Everyone agrees we'll get there eventually, but it'll take a while.
Oct 15 2009
Socrates partnered with the Young Professionals Organization for the YPO-Socrates Program Seminars on October 12-15 in Aspen, CO. Two seminars were offered to participants: Privacy and Democracy, and 21st Century Energy.
Sep 27 2009
Afghanistan and Pakistan: Short-Term Crises vs. Long-Term problems
The seminar will explore the background to America’s present military engagement in Afghanistan and our relationship over the last decade to nuclear-armed but unstable Pakistan. It will examine mistaken priorities and misplaced resources, and also how The U.S. failed to take into account the costs, complexity, and duration of military and political commitments to both states, as well as America’s lack of understanding of deeper social, cultural, and ideological trends in both states.
Jun 29 2009
Environment and Energy: The World We Will Inherit and Build
As teenagers we are joining the conversation about stewardship of the Earth approximately forty years after the first Earth Day, and the early warning signs on global climate change. Former President Jimmy Carter referred often to the need for a transition to a renewable energy economy, and in the mid seventies said that solving the energy problem was the moral equivalent of war.
Jun 29 2009
Five expert-moderated seminars were offered to participants on June 26-29 in Aspen, CO. The seminar topics included: the Global Economy; Green Investing; Sports and Values; Decision Making; and the relationship between government and business. The Annual Socrates Benefit Dinner was held on June 28.
Apr 25 2009
From Economic Crisis to the New New Deal
The United States, along with much of the world, faces the most challenging economic crisis since the Great Depression. Output is falling, unemployment is rising, and deflation is a clear and present danger. Despite remarkably bold policy initiatives undertaken in recent weeks both by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, there is little sign yet that the economy is responding to treatment. Not since the election of FDR has a new president taken office in such a daunting environment.
Feb 16 2009
Three expert-moderated seminars were offered to Socrates participants at the 2009 Winter Seminars on February 13-16 in Aspen, CO. The topics included: Nuclear Weapons and the Middle East; Innovation; and the American Economy.
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