12 videos tagged personal action
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Annie Lennox
What does it mean to be ‘green’?
Annie Lennox talks about what being green means for her. She speaks about the shifts that are necessary if we are to overcome the various environmental challenges that confront…
Recorded: 16 September 2006
Bruce Sterling
How can activism be most effective?
Bruce Sterling talks about environmental activism and his own journey as an activist seeking to address the challenge of climate change. He discusses the role the internet plays…
Recorded: 16 May 2006
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
Amy Domini
What is Ethical Investing? – Part One
Amy Domini talks about three basic investment tools available to the ethical investor. The first is investment in SRI funds which place equal emphasis on people, planet and profitability.…
Recorded: 15 April 2005
John Cavanagh
What does it mean to be a consumer?
John Cavanagh highlights the power that individuals possess as consumers, workers, investors and citizens by the choices that they make. He points to the success of the fair trade…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
Erika Lesser
What are the origins of Slow Food
Erika Lesser talks about the origins of the Slow Food movement, founded by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini in the mid-1980s. Recognizing that the industrialization of food was…
Recorded: 11 April 2005
Yasuhiko Kimura
What is the ‘environment of ideas’? (part 1)
Yasuhiko Kimura has spent several decades studying the origin and culture of ideas – something he calls the “ideosphere.” In this three-part series, Kimura describes…
Recorded: 25 February 2005
John Perkins
Does the US have an empire? (part 2)
Former economic hitman John Perkins sees positive change emerging from different quarters. He believes the social movements that have emerged in recent years point to real progress.…
Recorded: 28 January 2005
Terry Tempest Williams
How do you find the motivation for change?
Speaking to a small audience at the 2004 Bioneers Conference in California, Tempest Williams talks about what fundamentally motivates her as an activist. In response to a question…
Recorded: 17 October 2004
Wolfgang Sachs
What are the hidden costs of creating the products we use everyday?
Dr. Sachs talks about the hidden production costs of many of the products we habitually consume and suggests that buying eco-friendly and fair trade goods is the best way to minimize…
Recorded: 21 February 2004
Ervin Laszlo
Can individuals make a difference?
Professor Laszlo talks about his book “You Can Change the World” – published by Positive News. He talks about how a more peaceful and sustainable world is possible…
Recorded: 22 August 2003
Jane Goodall
What can humanity learn from other primates?
Dr. Jane Goodall reflects upon the lessons she has learned about human nature in studying chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. She notes that while mankind has almost…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
