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How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the … Continue reading →

Segments: ThamesTv Published on Apr 11, 2017 Thames Televisions ‘Warming Warning’ First Shown: 08/12/1981 If you are interested in licensing a clip from this video please e mail: archive Quote: VT25895 and and and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zHAbYOXjzk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puCng0p6N_s

How can we address problems that sometimes seem unsolvable? How to lift families mired in generations of poverty to a better life? Stop the .ow of carbon into our atmosphere? Or remove corporate in.uence from our politics? ese are problems … Continue reading →

The Next System Project Published on Jan 4, 2016 The inability of traditional politics and policies to address fundamental challenges has fueled an extraordinary amount of experimentation, generating increasing numbers of sophisticated and thoughtful initiatives that build from the bottom … Continue reading →

WGBHForum Published on Mar 31, 2014 James Gustave Speth, armed with the latest data about the global environmental crisis, explains why current methods of tackling the problem (international negotiations and treaties) have failed, and exposes the disaster waiting to happen … Continue reading →

Gus Speth’s new memoir, Angels by the River, describes his evolution from accepting the status quo as a child, to working within mainstream environmentalism for environmental protection, to calling for “a new environmentalism.” (Photo: Chelsea Green Publishing) In conversation with … Continue reading →

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Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change In Angels by the River, James Gustave “Gus” Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation’s most influential … Continue reading →

Joe Friendly Uploaded on Dec 9, 2008 Yale Dean of Forestry and Environmental Studies comes down hard on corporations, calling for a steady-state rather than growth orientation and the need for radical political and economic change to rationally deal with … Continue reading →