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Halcyon actively monitors change covering more than 150 key elements of life.

The 52:52:52 project, launching both on this site and on social media in early 2024 will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in early 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site in the coming months.

Food

On Gardening
Angus in Genval
Halcyon In Kal… 28 November 2023

 

“This is happiness,” Willa Cather’s fictional narrator gasps as he sinks into his grandmother’s garden, “to be dissolved into something complete and great.” A generation later, in a real-life counterpart, Virginia Woolf arrived at the greatest epiphany of her life  - and to this day perhaps the finest definition of what it takes to be an artist - while contemplating the completeness and greatness abloom in the garden.

What's Changing? - Food
Food
Halcyon Identifies 7 November 2023

 

Please see below selected recent food-related change.

 

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November 2023

What's Changing? - Addiction

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Please see below selected recent addiction-related change.

 

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November 2023

  • Once the world’s top opium supplier, Afghanistan slashed its cultivation of opium poppies by 95%, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. The drop followed a Taliban edict banning opium cultivation.

 

September 2023

What's New? - Food
Food
Halcyon Identifies 31 December 2022

 

Halcyon curates the most significant food-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with food-related challenges.

What may change? - 2021
2021
Halcyon In Kal… 25 March 2021

 

Please see below a range of 2021 outlooks and forecasts, grouped across the following 21 topics.

  • Business, Climate, Conflict, Demographics, Economics, Energy, Food, Freedom, Health, Innovation, Nature, Politics, Purpose, Risk, Space, Sustainability, Technology, Travel, Trust, Values and Work.

There is also a bonus list of additional 2021 forecasts in appendix.

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BUSINESS

Imagining the world in miniature
100
Halcyon Imagines 1 January 2020

 

If the world were a village of 100 people, what would it look like?  Various answers have circulated around the internet for years, but a set of 20 posters provides a visual perspective on this fascinating hypothetical question.

What's Changing? - SDG 2. Zero Hunger

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Please see below change concerning the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Goal 2 to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

 

Poor nutrition causes 45% of deaths in kids under five each year.

The depth of the food deficit (in kilocalories per person per day) remains very serious in many parts of the world.

A result of poor diets over long periods is a retardation of growth – the height of children is too small for their age. This is referred to as stunted growth. Children with stunted growth are at greater risk for illness and death.

 

On Meat

Beef

Our current meat-heavy system of food production seems to many unsustainable, a waste of resources and a source of pollution in the form of pesticides and hormones as well as methane gas from livestock manure.