Topia!: Society: Future: Research Centers (5) Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies - One of the oldest US futures research centers, affiliated with a graduate futures program: research activities, papers, course descriptions, alumni lists and links, and the Manoa Journal of Fried and Half Fried Ideas (about the Future) [12 volumes]. Finland Futures Research Centre - Based at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration; studies emerging issues of change, scenarios, and long-range strategies for local, national, regional and global organizations; offers on-line futures research training; stresses sustainable development. The Institute for Futures Research (Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake) - Specializes in environmental scanning, scenario development, business foresight and strategic planning, futures mediation, and training. Institute for Futures Research (University of Stellenbosch) - Academic research center specializing in business and technology foresight, demographic, economic, and energy forecasting, and long-term systems-science-based studies of sociopolitical structures; publication list and newsletter synopses. Institute for the Future - Based in Menlo Park, this non-profit research center specializes in long-term forecasting, and quantitative futures research methods. Additional categories: calphalon cookware finger red sox baseball Supreme Extralife engraved gift

Research Centers