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Ashok Khosla
What changes does society need?
Ashok Khosla thinks that the main areas for positive change concern technology, production systems and democracy. Technology could mimic and work with nature more than it has. This…
Recorded: 13 May 2007
Bill Joy
How can we ensure that technological advances are good for us?
Bill Joy is fundamentally optimistic about technology and the benefits it will continue to bring to humanity. He highlights the success in decoding the human genome, and points…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
Bill Joy
How do we make industry more sustainable?
Bill Joy believes that the necessary steps for industry are first to reduce the quantity of materials used in the manufacturing process, then to reuse and recycle them where at…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
Bill Joy
What are the risks and potentials of genetic science and nanotechnology?
Bill Joy discusses the ethical implications of developments in the fields of genetics, nanotechnology and robotics. The potential for creating harmful pathogens is a particular…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
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
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
Nicholas Dunlop
What is the ‘e-parliament’ initiative?
Nicholas Dunlop describes how e-parliament works and why it is a much needed initiative. E-parliament is a global forum connecting 130 of the world’s democratically elected…
Recorded: 20 May 2006
Christopher Flavin
is ‘clean coal’ a good idea?
Chris Flavin acknowledges the need to clean up the global coal industry but does not see the process as being a full solution to climate change. Coal burning power stations should…
Recorded: 15 November 2005
Janine Benyus
What can designers learn from the natural world? (part 2)
Janine Benyus looks at how biomimicry has enabled engineers to develop innovative, resource-efficient materials. In stark contrast to the typical “heat, beat and treat”…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
Janine Benyus
What can designers learn from the natural world? (part 3)
Janine Benyus gives more examples of innovations that have been inspired by nature. Pax Scientific, a US technology company, has developed…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
Janine Benyus
What can designers learn from biologists? (part 1)
Janine Benyus talks about her current efforts to bring more biologists to the design table. She believes there is a vast wealth of knowledge in fields such as biology, zoology and…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
Majid Tehranian
What are the roots of terrorism? (Part One)
Professor Tehranian talks about the history and culture of terrorism and its varied causes and responses. The object of terrorist activity is to paralyze people through fear, a…
Recorded: 26 May 2005
Majid Tehranian
what are the roots of terrorism? (Part two)
Majid Tehranian explains how advanced communications are creating a global consciousness with regards to the causes of terrorism. The events of 9/11 showed that what happens in…
Recorded: 26 May 2005
Mike Eckhart
Is renewable energy a viable solution? (part 2)
In the second part of this two-part series on renewable energy, Mike Eckhart talks about the role that governments around the world have played – and continue to play –…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
Mike Eckhart
What is the potential for renewable energy?
Mike Eckhart takes a candid look at the likely development of renewable energy going forward. He talks about the work that still needs to be done by organizations such as his, as…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
Jeffrey Sachs
What is ‘The Millennium Villages Project’?
The Millennium Villages Project, run by The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up approach to lifting villages in the…
Recorded: 1 March 2005
Paul Connett
What’s the best way to deal with waste? (part 2)
Paul Connett looks at case studies of successful zero waste operations around the world. These include a resource recovery park in Canberra, Australia (the first community ever…
Recorded: 2 February 2005
Lester Brown
Can we restructure the economy to make it more sustainable?
In the first clip in this two-part series, Lester Brown talks about the issues he addresses in his book ‘Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress.’ In the book he examines…
Recorded: 1 December 2004
Lester Brown
Can we restructure the economy to make it more sustainable? (part 2)
In this second clip, Lester Brown suggests what can be done if world leaders are to get serious about climate change. The first step would be to phase out old-fashioned incandescent…
Recorded: 1 December 2004
Aubrey Meyer
What is the ‘Contraction and Convergence’ approach to tackling climate change? (part 2)
In this second clip of three, Meyer describes how the Contraction & Convergence framework can benefit all participating countries – especially the poorest countries of…
Recorded: 11 November 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
What is ‘Natural Capitalism’?
Dr. Lovins talks about the reaction around the world to his seminal book ‘Natural Capitalism’, which he co-wrote with L. Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. Since it was…
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
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Can GM solve the problem of global hunger?
Many Bio-tech companies market their GM seeds using the claim that GM is the answer to world hunger. Here, Norberg-Hodge explains how these profit-driven corporations are in reality…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
