Three Challenges for the Planet - Jeffrey Sachs
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/15/Professor_Jeffrey_Sachs_on_Sustainable_Solutions
Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs outlines what are, in his view, the three greatest challenges to peace the world will face over the next several years.
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One of the world’s leading experts in aid and economic and sustainable development, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, gave a free public lecture at the University of Sydney on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008, to mark the opening of the University’s new Institute for Sustainable Solutions.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia, an organisation that leads large-scale efforts to promote sustainability throughout the world.
Professor Sachs is one of the leading international voices for combining economic development with environmental sustainability and is also a special advisor to the United National secretary-general.
His free public lecture marks the officially opening of the University of Sydney’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions - Sydney Institute
Jeffrey Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute, where he is also a professor of sustainable development. The unconventional and impassioned economist advocates combining economic development with environmental sustainability. Through the Earth Institute and as Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, Sachs has analyzed challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and globalization for more than twenty years.
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Water, Governance, Women, and Empowerment in Morocco’s Rural Communities
A redux of the presentation Christopher Molitoris presented to the Sixteenth Annual Maghrebi Area Studies Symposium for U.S. Fulbright Grantees at the Tour Hassan Hotel, Rabat, Morocco. 18 April 2009.
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Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009
Delhi Sustainable Development Summit The DSDS - organized by TERI since 2001 -is an annual international undertaking to continuously provide knowledge and stimulate debate on various aspects of sustainable development. It has emerged as the only forum on global sustainability issues, with an accentuated thrust on problems relating to the developing world.
The DSDS series has enjoyed global support, from over 60 countries, attracting participation from heads of government and ministers, and a host of other dignitaries comprising Nobel laureates, development practitioners, scientists, academics, and corporate leaders.
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Cow Sh*t to Clean Water
Over 1.1 billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. When I heard of a nanotech water purifier that can be used to purify water from even fecal matter contaminated sources, I couldn’t help but test it out the “uncultured” way.
Thanks for getting this on the Digg.com Frontpage everyone! Hope this spreads the word about my project…
The “Uncultured Project” is just a funny name for the journey I’ve started. It’s not a charity, organization, or anything formal like that. I’m just a guy who liquidated his life savings, bought a camera, and went abroad to try and help the poorest of the poor. For more, info check out:
http://uncultured.com
If you would like to fund this project, which is just something I am doing as an individual, please check my donation page at:
http://www.uncultured.com/donations
Unless you give me written permission, your donation will NOT be used for personal expenses, equipment, airfare, or anything like that.
This isn’t a paid endorsement of LifeStraw Family. Vestergaard Frandsen (the manufacturers of LifeStraw Family) helped me come to Kenya but I was under no obligation to endorse them or their products. For more information about the LifeStraw Family, check out:
http://lifestraw.com
The LifeStraw Family uses nanotechnology (called hollow tubes) to filter water down to 25 nanometers and meets US EPA guidelines as a microbiological water purifier. They claim that one LifeStraw Family can purify enough water for a family of five for up to three years.
For those asking for tech info, here are the results from a study by the University of Arizona:
http://tinyurl.com/LifeStrawResults
Music used in this video include “How Far” by Jamison Young and “Look And Feel Years Younger” by Brad Sucks. You can find more about them here:
Jamison Young
http://www.jamyoung.net
Brad Sucks
http://www.bradsucks.net
I’d like to thank my friend Alan (fallofautumndistro) for his invaluable feedback and support as I was struggling to edit this video in a timely manner. You can check out his channel here:
http://youtube.com/fallofautumndistro
This video is licensed under the Creative Commons. Please contact me for more details.
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Corporate video ACCIONA
ACCIONA is a Spanish company and a pioneer in sustainable development
Created in 1997 as a result of the merger between Entrecanales & Tavora and Cubiertas & MZOV, ACCIONA inherited its philosophy of profitability, quality and technical rigour.
ACCIONA develops and manages energies, infrastructures and services that share common customers, and has a management philosophy geared towards maximizing returns.
ACCIONA aims to contribute to social wellbeing and sustainable development through all its six business lines: Infrastructures, Real Estate, Energy, water, Urban and Environmental Services, Logistic and Transport Services.
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UN Millennium Campaign Goal 7 Environmental Sustainability
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs
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Smart Green Infrastructure: How To Grow Sustainable Cities
Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, describes how this organization has pioneered an integrated approach to managing urban ecosystems as watersheds in the Los Angeles region. This involves strategic tree planting, tree-mimicking technologies, and community engagement to generate multiple solutions to the environmental threats facing our cities, including ensuring a sustainable water supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing water and air pollution, fostering stronger neighborhoods, and creating jobs. For a summary of TreePeople’s six demonstration projects that are now collecting 1.25 million gallons of water every time it rains 1″ in Los Angeles, visit www. treepeople.org. Video Going to Green: Planting Seeds of Change with Community Forestry produced by the Media & Policy Center Foundation for PBS.
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Securing MDG7 on environmental sustainability…
… the role of institutions. Neil Bird of the Overseas Development Institute responds to the In My Name campaign by arguing for local, national and international action and highlighting how institutions are crucial to these actions.
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