NextGen Program

At NCSD, we believe that our future society can be a promising one if we accept a youth perspective. It is critical, we believe, to have young professional minds to constantly sharpen their insights, experience and analysis of important world issues in any field to develop skills of evaluation and discernment. This approach once known as “critical thinking “is important for them throughout their lives and careers.

The NCSD platform addressing sustainability is part of an interested group of issues and people worldwide that encourages up front and a close look at technical and policy ideas now in their infancy that many years from now will be common place. Enlightened critical thinking with a global view, developing analytical skills and completing practical tasks build character and insight. The NCSD program can not only produce NextGen leaders but also to contribute their positive energy into the most critical issue facing the world today and generationally into the future: “Climate Change”.

Over the last several years, the management and Board of NCSD have shared the privilege of working with many potential young college students from universities on technical, industry and scientific research and governmental policy analysis. Their work and diligence are very important, along with their enthusiasm, to being able to manage an ever increasing need to develop useful and economically practical solutions for some of the vexing problems related to Climate Change.

NCSD is creating a NextGen Program where undergraduate, masters and Ph.D. students can become deeply involved in a technology or sustainable development issue that comes from their generational perspective. Having a young perspective is to have a rare view of issues that history has shown is often a key to understanding what others miss. Consider NCSD a practical training that must be elevated by youthful passion to fashion Climate Change answers.