15 videos tagged energy efficiency
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Bill Joy
What is potential for investing in clean technologies?
Bill Joy talks about his involvement with a venture capital group focused on investment in clean technology solutions. Unusually the firm also works as an influential pressure group…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
Bill Joy
Is the cost of fighting climate change too expensive?
Speaking as an investor, Bill Joy believes that it is entirely possible to limit carbon emissions by means of financial incentives. The key is to pay people not to emit. For industry,…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
Takashi Kiuchi
What would a sustainable economics look like?
Kiuchi believes that after Keynesian-style capitalism we now need to embrace what he calls Natural Economics, an economics in tune with the environment. He believes that the productivity…
Recorded: 8 September 2006
Herbert Girardet
What other advantages does making cities more sustainable bring?
Speaking from his experience as sustainability consultant to the Australian city of Adelaide, Girardet highlights the social and economic advantages that sustainable urban planning…
Recorded: 12 May 2006
Karl-Henrik Robèrt
How does the Natural Step help businesses be more sustainable?
Karl-Henrik Robèrt draws upon his experience in helping corporations embrace sustainability while also enhancing bottom-line performance. He explains how businesses might go about…
Recorded: 21 April 2006
Karl-Henrik Robèrt
How does the Natural Step approach work? (Part 1)
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt says The Natural Step provides an overarching framework for achieving sustainability – one that encompasses other leading concepts such as ecological…
Recorded: 21 April 2006
John Todd
How should we deal with sewage? (part 1)
John Todd believes the top-down, command-and-control approach to solving design problems, as characterized by the 20th century, is outmoded. The 21st century, by contrast, will…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
John Todd
how should we deal with sewage? (part 2)
In addressing design issues from an ecological stand point, all manner of existing energy problems can be solved. With regards to sewage treatment, large-scale treatment facilities…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
Caroline Lucas
How can we ensure energy security?
Caroline Lucas talks about the energy options confronting us. She discusses her preference for clean renewable energy and why she thinks nuclear power has little future. She remarks…
Recorded: 3 December 2004
Amory Lovins
How can America reduce its dependency on foreign oil? (Part 1)
Amory Lovins talks about his latest book ‘Winning the Oil Endgame,’ co-sponsored by the Pentagon. In it, Dr. Lovins lays out a strategy to reduce drastically America’s…
Recorded: 17 October 2004
Amory Lovins
How can America reduce its dependency on foreign oil? (part 2)
Dr. Lovins talks about the surprises he encountered while researching his latest book ‘Winning the Oil Endgame.’ He explains how he hadn’t fully anticipated that…
Recorded: 17 October 2004
Amory Lovins
How can we make cars more efficient?
Dr. Lovins first had the idea to make cars a great deal more efficient in 1991. Here he describes how his initial idea for the ‘Hypercar’ has developed. During the 1990s…
Recorded: 17 October 2004
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
What is the role for governments in creating a sustainable energy supply?
In the final part of this three-part series, Mr Vaitheeswaran recognizes the important role the government can play in creating incentives for the market. He cautions politicians…
Recorded: 9 June 2004
Colin Campbell
What is the future of oil?
Dr. Campbell discusses the decline of global oil and gas production and talks about the likely impacts oil depletion will have on geopolitics. He addresses some of the solutions…
Recorded: 1 November 2002
Ernst von Weizsäcker
What does globalization mean?
Dr. von Weizsäcker describes how the globalized economy allows corporations to blackmail governments around the world. This, he explains, fuels short-term thinking at a time when…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
