This piece, to be published in Futures Research Quarterly (Winter 2003) proposes an integral futures approach to revitalizing environmental scanning. After the diagnosis of current problems, the basic steps of an integral environmental scanning are explained.

Examples of how this approach is being applied at Dow Chemical are provided. While still in the early stages, they should provide a sense of real world application that builds on some of the seminal theoretical work in this space being developed by the Australian Foresight Institute.