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Elgin served as a senior staff member of the joint Presidential/Congressional Commission on Population Growth and the American Future and as a senior social-scientist with SRI International. At SRI he co-authored several major studies on the long-range future. These included Alternative Futures for Environmental Planning (for the Environmental Protection Agency), Anticipating Future National and Global Problems (for the President's Science Advisor), and City Size and the Quality of Life (for the National Science Foundation). He is the primary author of The Millennium Project report Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Paradigm. Previously he was also the co-founder and director of Choosing Our Future, a non-partisan, non-profit organization created to "revitalize the conversation of democracy by mobilizing our tools of mass communication." Elgin has given more than 200 keynotes and workshops for audiences ranging from business executives and civic groups to spiritual communities and college students. He brings an engaging and interactive approach to his presentations. His major keynote is entitled The World at the Tipping Point, and his other speaking topics include Positive Futures, Sustainable Living, and New Science & Spirituality. Video clips are available here, and speaking testimonials are available here.
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As
a futurist and author of (Perennial
Currents), (William Morrow) and (Perennial Currents), Elgin has anticipated some
of the most important trends of our time. According to a 1997 Trends
Research Institute report, "voluntary simplicity. . . is now spreading
throughout the industrialized world. . . . Never before. . . has a
societal trend grown so quickly, spread so broadly, and been embraced
so eagerly." 
