Three Challenges for the Planet - Jeffrey Sachs
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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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Naropa Community Greenhouse Grand Opening Celebration Set for Earth Day
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Completed in 2008, the student-designed Naropa Community Greenhouse Project will be celebrated in a grand opening ceremony on Earth Day on the Naropa campus. A presentation by Robert Martin, former National Ombudsman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Chief Public Advocate of National Environmental Public Advocates, will also be a part of the event. The vision of eight students in an Advanced Applied Horticulture class quickly grew in scope to become a Naropa community project.
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Suzanne Morgan Speaks about Environmental Sustainability
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Suzanne Morgan, president and founder of Print Buyers Online.com and print buyers ociation, Print Communications Professionals International (PCPI), speaks about Environmental Sustainability for print buyers.
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Environmental Sustainability
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Goal #7 of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals
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Future Farmer Award
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The Future Farmer Award is a new initiative funded by the Elizabeth Murray Trust. Each year a trailblazing Scottish farmer will be given £4,000 and a package of practical support to help them promote their ideas to other farmers and land managers.
Anyone farming in Scotland who is keen to inspire others to try practical ideas for improving the environmental sustainability of farming is eligible for the Award. Both direct applications and nominations are accepted. The type of approach which the Future Farmer Award seeks to promote include:
Managing soils to reduce flooding risk
Integrating native woodland management with grazing livestock
Choosing crops varieties which are resilient to wet summers
Developing new ideas for productive and sustainable management of hill ground
Running farm machinery on farm-produced bio-fuel
Creating the right conditions for commercially useful ‘wild’ plants to grow
Cutting CO2 emissions on-farm and in supply chains
The Award was launched in January 2008 and applications open on January 1st each year.
What We Are Looking For:
Promoting practical ideas for improving the environmental sustainability of farming in Scotland
Promoting: You should have an interest in promoting your ideas to farmers, policy-makers and the media. The winner will receive support to do this for a year from a co-ordinator appointed by the Murray Trust.
Practical: The Award seeks to promote practical ideas for improving environmental sustainability. This means that your ideas do not have to be new or unique so long as they work and you are willing to inspire others to try them.
Environmental Sustainability: The concept of sustainability includes economic, social and environmental sustainability. Your idea should be mainly about improving environmental sustainability, but at any level - local to global.
Farming: The Award aims to showcase ways in which Scotland can produce food, fibre and wood products from farms and crofts while maintaining the natural capital of the land and minimizing the ecological footprint of farming activities. Your idea can incorporate nature conservation or leisure activities but there must also be a core element of productive farming.
For more details and application forms, see http://www.futurefarmer.org.uk
Duration : 0:2:15
Informa Interview - Prof Paul Thomas on university planning and design
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Professor Paul Thomas AM, Vice Chancellor, University of the Sunshine Coast, talks to us about the current challenges for planning and designing university campuses, the issues of ‘Environmental Sustainability‘ and the role campus planning play in terms of developing urban surroundings.
Website: http://www.informa.com.au/unidesign
Contact: +61 2 9080 4307
Duration : 0:4:17
Designing Innovation Networks Modeled on Life’s Origins & Evolution
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Google Tech Talks
November 20, 2008
ABSTRACT
Highly innovative organizations face a constant challenge to process a flood of good ideas, both generated by employees and submitted from outside. In the wake of Google’s Tenth Birthday Competition, this talk describes how innovation networks apply principles found in life’s origins and evolution to “processing innovation.” Debates about how novelty emerged in the origin of life and its evolution toward complexity demand revising umptions that we’ve taken for granted. Steven Jay Gould said that “Darwinism” misrepresents Darwin.
A more complete interpretation of Darwin’s theory of evolution could inspire new problem-solving methods with a range of practical applications, from multi-agent systems able to learn and improve their performance to cross-disciplinary decision support systems designed to address environmental sustainability challenges. Objective. To discuss nine principles of innovation networks and the problem-solving method they support.
Speaker: Zann Gill
Zann Gill will describe ideas from her forthcoming books What Daedalus told Darwin (about Darwin’s dilemma and designing intelligence) and If Microbes begat Mind (on origins of life and emergence of intelligence). With an M.Arch. from Harvard, her early experience as a researcher for Buckminster Fuller exposed her to Fuller’s concepts for “World Game” to achieve Environmental Sustainability and “design science.” Inspired by research into complex adaptive systems and multi-scale innovation networks, her entry to the international competition Kawasaki: Information City of the 21st Century, sponsored by the Japan ociation for Planning Administration and Mainichi Newspapers, with cooperation of ten ministries and three agencies of the Japanese government, tied with Matsushita Corp. for first place and won the Award of the Mayor of Kawasaki. She proposed an Innovation Network comprised of sixteen initiatives for urban innovation as a complex adaptive system. More recently at NASA she developed program plans for an Institute for Advances Space Concepts (IASC), a think tank called Bio-Evolutionary Advanced Concepts (BEACON) and NASA University. She founded DESYN lab (http://desyn.com) to explore “raising collaborative IQ” (http://www.zanngill.com/3ciq.html).
This Google Tech Talk was hosted by Boris Debic.
Duration : 0:48:1
Happy Earth Day, Everyone!
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It’s April 22, guys. Happy Earth Day! Though commenced in 1970, the beginnings of the Earth Day celebration can actually be traced to as early as 1963, when Senator Gaylord Nelson approached then President John F. Kennedy, sharing his concerns about the environment and asking for urgent actions regarding the same. President Kennedy realized the alarming nature of Senator Nelson’s concerns, and that solutions must be found quickly. One such solution was awareness, hence, President
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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Environmental Sustainability Dashboard
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B.E.S.T. Southlands Part 1 of 3
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BEST - Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce Southlands and the South Shore Part 1
Duration : 0:9:16