WWF Canada - The world has changed; you can too
Type: Film Organisation: WWF Canada
Summary: An inspirational advertisement form World Wildlife Fund Canada that shows numerous social changes achieved over past decades, demonstrating that change happens.
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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Type: Film Organisation: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Summary: This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
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The Empathetic Civilisation
Type: Film Organisation: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Summary: Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society in this RSA Animate clip.
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The Future of Green: Ed Gillespie of Futerra
Type: Film Organisation: Futerra
Summary: Ed Gillespie, Director and Co-Founder of sustainable communications consultancy Futerra, gives his take on the Future of Green for the industry. www.futerra.co.uk - www.insider-trends.com (language warning).
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Higher Education and Sustainability: Leon Botstein and Andrew Revkin pt6
Type: Film Organisation: Bard Centre for Environmental Policy
Summary: December 07, 2009 — (Part 6) Keynote Conversation on Higher Education and Sustainability: Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, and Andrew Revkin, New York Times Science Reporter, discuss "What is the Role of Higher Education in building a sustainable future?" with Eban Goodstein, Bard CEP director, as moderator.
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Higher Education and Sustainability: Leon Botstein and Andrew Revkin pt 5
Type: Film Organisation: Bard Centre for Environmental Policy
Summary: December 07, 2009 — (Part 5) Keynote Conversation on Higher Education and Sustainability: Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, and Andrew Revkin, New York Times Science Reporter, discuss "What is the Role of Higher Education in building a sustainable future?" with Eban Goodstein, Bard CEP director, as moderator.
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Larissa Behrendt - Environmental Sustainability: what we can learn from Aboriginal Culture
Type: Film Organisation: University of Technology Sydney
Summary: The concept of sustainability has always been central to Indigenous cultures - Larissa Behrendt (of the Eualeyai/Kamillaroi people) talks about the lessons derived from her Indigenous culture relating to climate-change, environment/sustainability, Aboriginal totems and customs, wisdom and the principles of connectedness.
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Kate Grenville on Artists, Writers and Climate Change
Type: Film Organisation: Fora TV
Summary: There is often a gap between what we know we should do, and how we actually behave. Delivering this keynote address at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas, novelist Kate Grenville argues that it is the role of artists and writers to inspire and move people to act on important issues like climate change.
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-known novelists. Her books include "Lilian's Story", "The Idea of Perfection" and "The Lieutenant". Her novel "The Secret River" won the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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Saul Griffith measures his energy consumption
Type: Film Organisation: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Summary: Saul Griffith is an Australian engineer and environmentalist living in San Francisco. In this talk, given at the Long Now Foundation, he presents the results of an extraordinary experiment. In order to better understand what individual people can do about climate change, he painstakingly calculated all of the energy resources he consumes.
Dr. Saul Griffith has several degrees, including a PhD in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating Machines at MIT.
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Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil
Type: Film Organisation: Ted Talks
Summary: In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine - and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.
2005 TED Prize winner Edward Burtynsky has made it his life's work to document humanity's impact on the planet. His riveting photographs capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.
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