By Carsten Schmidt, Fellow, Henry Corporation In a 1969 manifesto titled “Design with Nature," a landscape architect named Ian McHarg introduced a concept called the shifting baseline. The concept essentially describes a form of “generational blindness,” which means that our experiences and immediate views limit our perception of reality. Otherwise stated, our

Who doesn’t want to be proactive? Many a starry-eyed presenter have discussed the subject of predictive decision making. Usually, the story goes something like this: “You can’t drive your car looking in the rear-view mirror. You have to look out the wind screen. Therefore, you need predictive decision making.” Examples