20 videos tagged environment
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James Leape
Is climate change the only issue that matters?
Given the recent international focus on climate change, Leap speaks to the broader environmental agenda and suggests ways in which other issues must also be addressed – issues…
Recorded: 23 January 2008
James Leape
Can the market work for the environment? (Part 1)
Jim Leape looks at some of the ways in which the market can shape a more sustainable economic model. In particular he discusses eco-labelling and carbon trading schemes. He also…
Recorded: 23 January 2008
James Leape
What difference can the environmental movement make?
Jim Leape assesses the future for environmental conservation and for the sustainability movement more broadly. While the environmental movement is decades old, those actively involved…
Recorded: 23 January 2008
Achim Steiner
Can we have economic growth and environmental sustainability?
Achim Steiner believes that global economic growth cannot be sustained without a major transition towards sustainability. Simply put, sustainability is pre-condition for long-term…
Recorded: 22 January 2008
Achim Steiner
How does climate change change the way we must do business?
Achim Steiner sees climate change as a uniquely transformative issue, in that it is merging diverse environmental and business interests. Viable, rational business strategies are…
Recorded: 22 January 2008
Julia Marton-Lefevre
Why is biodiversity important?
Julia Marton-Lefèvre says we are taking too many chances by destroying non-human species. We need to see nature as a complex system that supports humanity. One of the problems…
Recorded: 22 June 2007
Tariq Banuri
Can economics measure everything? (Part 1)
In this two-part series, Tariq Banuri expresses his opinion that while economic instruments are important, they should not be applied to all aspects of our lives (as economists…
Recorded: 12 May 2007
Maude Barlow
What is the state of the world’s water?
Maude Barlow shares her insights into the looming water crisis. She discusses the hydrological damage caused by pollution and by the displacement and diversion of water. As water…
Recorded: 12 May 2007
Matthew Simmons
When will our supply of gas peak?
As the world’s only source of instant heat, gas should have been more highly valued. Instead it was always priced at a discount to oil because of the difficulties transporting…
Recorded: 14 February 2007
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
Adam Davis
How can we use the market to protect the environment? (Part 1)
Adam Davis explains how financial incentives can be devised so that the planet’s remaining ecosystems can continue to provide ecological services essential to human life.…
Recorded: 14 August 2006
Adam Davis
How can we use the market to protect the environment? (Part 2)
Davis explains how financial incentives can be used to provide a realistic costing for services previously considered to be freely available in nature. The impact of development…
Recorded: 14 August 2006
John Elkington
What will a new green economy look like? (Part 1)
John Elkington believes the global economy is susceptible to a major shock on account of burgeoning social and environmental crises. In the face of this, mainstream corporations…
Recorded: 30 May 2006
John Elkington
What will a new green economy look like? (part 2)
Elkington gives an example of how one multinational corporation is moving into the “new economy” space. Unilever is not unknown for its interest in social entrepreneurship (it…
Recorded: 30 May 2006
Karl-Henrik Robèrt
How will sustainable businesses be more profitable?
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt describes how businesses, municipalities, universities and other organizations can become positive role models for sustainability. In an increasingly unsustainable…
Recorded: 21 April 2006
Gil Friend
Which countries make the most efforts towards sustainability
Gil Friend briefly assesses the environmental performance of government and private sectors around the globe. He sees Europe as a world leader in progressive policy implementation.…
Recorded: 9 November 2005
Hazel Henderson
How will business change as our focus on the environment increases?
Hazel Henderson believes that the current system within which businesses operate will become obsolete over time. The changing composition of the Fortune 500 in the last 20 years…
Recorded: 6 November 2005
Lester Brown
What is the future for World food supplies? (Part One)
In this two-part series Lester Brown looks at two environmental trends, aquifer depletion and rising temperatures. He focuses primarily on the long-term implications these have…
Recorded: 1 December 2004
Ann Pettifor
How can we deal with our ecological debt?
Ann Pettifor talks about the way in which the industrial countries of the global north are running up a ballooning legacy of ecological debt. While this is being addressed by some…
Recorded: 1 November 2004
Danny Schechter
Is the media’s coverage of the environment adequate?
Award-winning journalist Danny Schechter explains why the mainstream media often ignores environmental issues. The media is a problem, he says, especially in America where foreign…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
