sustainability presentations

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What powerpoints or short online videos do the best job on getting across the definition and concepts involved in sustainability?

[Blue Meany]

1. I guess this is a real issue

last night I asked the candidates for the town council in my town what kind of initiatives they would support and what kind they would oppose in order to make the town more sustainable. Only one of the four understood what sustainable meant. All the others went of on monologues about jobs and the economy without any reference to what kinds of businesses might be sustainable. Ironically, the candidate who ran a recycling business talked about tax cuts for businesses rather than recyling.

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2. Yes

I think it is not fully understood by many.

[KewlKat]

3. Green Planet Films has lots of video, not sure if any online

http://greenplanetfilms.org/index.php?cPath=151

[KewlKat]

4. Here's one

Carol Sanford at MIT: "It’s a hell of a way to run a business -- consuming more resources than you bring in, selling off your assets, and cooking the books to make things look good. Yet that is precisely how humans are operating the vast enterprise of living on earth. The U.S. runs a particularly unsuccessful 'Business of Inhabitation', taking up four times more resources than any other nation <...> meeting regulatory requirements and adopting a sustainable approach 'fall short of what we need to do for the planet'. Our problem-solving minds break things down and seek ways merely 'to arrest disorder' or protect what appears valuable <...> We need an evolutionary leap into the 'wholeness mindset,' which involves asking how we regenerate and bring in more of what we need without degrading what is already there." She begins speaking at 5 minutes 22 seconds into the video. ::Video: Carol Sanford at MIT. See also: ::William A. McDonough Conference from 2000, ::Video: Amory Lovins on Winning the Oil Endgame, ::Video: Max Carcas of Ocean Power Delivery, ::Google TechTalks: Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Biofuels

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/420/

[KewlKat]

5. Another one

Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity’s ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads to developing countries.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/alex_steffen_sees_a_sustainable_future.html

[KewlKat]

6. More here

http://www.arnoldcreekproductions.com/SustainabilityShorts.htm

[KewlKat]

7. Nice vid of a college in CA

http://www.butte.edu/sustainability/susvid.html