11 videos tagged green lifestyles
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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
Can humanity live sustainably?
Takashi Kiuchi recently commissioned a piece of research on the future of the planet, paid for by a prominent Japanese insurance company. Based on the results of the study, conducted…
Recorded: 8 September 2006
David Orr
What should be the role of nature in education?
Professor Orr questions the role of education, suggesting that educational institutions should become more integrated with the natural world. Schools can be didactic models of sustainable…
Recorded: 13 May 2006
Richard Heinberg
How can we relocalize our economies? (Part two)
Professor Heinberg sets out the case for adapting to a future of oil scarcity now. We can do this by replicating agricultural models that use fewer fossil fuel inputs. We can also…
Recorded: 19 October 2005
Julia Butterfly Hill
How can we make sustainability mainstream?
Campaigner and environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill reflects on the concept of sustainability and what it will take to make it mainstream. She talks about the power of individual…
Recorded: 22 April 2005
Julia Butterfly Hill
How can we reconnect with nature?
Julia talks about humanity’s disconnect from nature and how we are part of nature’s system, not above or beyond it. She talks about the principals that guide her life…
Recorded: 22 April 2005
Yasuhiko Kimura
How can we live more harmonious lives?
Yasuhiko Kimura talks about living life in alignment with one’s core being or ‘authentic self.’ He talks about the many ways in which one can explore authenticity…
Recorded: 25 February 2005
Dr Vyvyan Howard
How dangerous are manmade chemicals?
The chemical industry is huge. Widely defined, it accounts for 7% of world GDP. Yet despite the ubiquity of potentially toxic man-made chemicals, consumer health protection is woefully…
Recorded: 31 January 2005
Satish Kumar
What are the principles of deep ecology?
Satish Kumar explains the difference between ‘shallow ecology’ and ‘deep ecology’ – terms first coined by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess. Drawing…
Recorded: 28 May 2004
Satish Kumar
What are the main problems of materialism?
Satish Kumar describes how present levels of consumption in the West are simply unsustainable. He examines the material values prevalent in much of Western society and envisages…
Recorded: 28 May 2004
Helena Norberg-Hodge
What are the benefits of supporting local food? (Part Two)
In the second part of this two-part series, Helena Norberg-Hodge explains why supporting the local food economy needn’t mean we stop buying coffee, tropical fruits and other…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
