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The four videos below comprise 77 minutes. They are selected because they highlight
the issues raised by Radical Gratitude. The theme tonight is "Working
It Out Together". These may well encourage you. |
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Video - Thomas Berry Speaks - 3m40s - One of the earliest voices speaking on behalf
of the earth was Father Thomas Berry. His words are even more urgent and
prophetic today. |
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Video - Hans Rosling - Momentum 2011 - Gapminder - 33m - This maestro
of statistics has been a key player in bringing the world up to date with
World Health Data. He has convinced the UN and many countries in making
their data open, free and available. He illustrates that human beings can
and do work for common goals. |
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Video - Paul Collier - Interview by Allan Gregg on the book, The Bottom Billion
- TVOntario - 27m32s |
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Video - David Damberger - Learning from Failure - TEDxYYC - 13m - In an emotional sharing of his work with Engineers Without Borders, Calgary engineer David Damberger teaches a most valuable lesson about International Aid, and the website he created to share the lesson, admittingfailure.com |
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The additional videos linked below are selected because they also highlight
the issues raised by Radical Gratitude on the theme "Working It Out
Together". Please check them out. |
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Video - David Korten - Radical Abundance - 72m - A presentation to 39th Trinity
Institute National Theological Conference on Radical Abundance: A Theology
of Sustainability, delivered in Trinity Wall Street Episcopal Church, New
York City. Ironically challenging Wall Street's practice
of unrestricted greed. See Yes Magazine for more of David Korten. |
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Video - Naomi Klein, Hernando de Soto & Joseph Stiglitz on Economic
Power - Discussion at City University New York on liberalization and
better ways of avoiding economic shock - FORA2009 - 62m - |
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Video - Kathryn Schulz - Being Wrong Feels Right - TED2011 - 18m - |
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Video - Ha-Joon Chang - Companies Should Not Be Run in the Interest of Their Owners
- 5m10s - In part 4 of INET's interview with Ha-Joon Chang, he attacks
the principle of shareholder value maximization. Stockholders of public
companies often are the least invested of all stakeholders in the long-term
health and productivity of the company, because they can sell their share
anytime |
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Video - David Mikkelsen - Refugees United - PopTech2011 - 5m35 - An anonymous mobile
tool and web platform designed to help refugees reconnect with loved ones.
These tools streamline the family tracing process for individuals and for
the NGOs helping them. |
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Video - Nils Gilman - Deviant Globilization - PopTech2011 - 21m27s - Deviant globalization
is the global flow of repugnant goods and services like drugs, human trafficking
and illegal wildlife. |
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Video - Muhammad Yunus - London School of Economics - Award acceptance speech.
An excellent review of the initial philosophy and practice of Micro Finance
Loans. 70 minutes. |
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Website - MY World - The UN End of Poverty 1015 workgroup has just launched MY World,
an interactive site inviting your voting on the proposals towards the next
cycle of the End of Poverty programs. |
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Paper - Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism - 2009 - 10p - Riane Eisler - Author Historian Activist . This paper is an excellent introduction to the thinking of a new generation
of economists who seek to learn the lessons of the 20th century. It comes
through Tikkun, the progressive Jewish journal. |
