The Challenges Ahead for a Sustainable Future by Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza is Director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.  Dr. Costanza is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. In this presentation he discusses sustainability from definition through to the processes necessary to come up with solutions to creating a better, more sustainable world.

RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: Building a Whole Earth Economy by Peter Brown
Dr. Peter G. Brown is a Professor of Geography at McGill University. In this discussion he calls out important points from his book, co-authored by with Geoffrey Garver, "Right Relationship: Buildng a Whole Earth Economy.  Our current economic system—which assumes endless growth and limitless potential wealth—flies in the face of the fact that the earths resources are finite. The result is increasing destruction of the natural world and growing, sometimes lethal, tension between rich and poor, global north and south. Trying to fix problems piecemeal is not the solution. We need a comprehensive new vision of an economy that can serve people and all of lifes commonwealth.

Can We Afford the Future by Dr. Frank Ackerman
There is no question that global warming exists, but there is little action among the government and society at large to take steps to combat it. Economist Frank Ackerman argues that the standard economic models used to calculate the global cost of protection, versus the cost of destruction of the planet, focus on an incomplete cost-benefit analysis.

Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 28, 2009.

Creating National Parks - The Essentials by Doug Tompkins
ICCFoundation — December 03, 2007 Conservation of Biodiversity, overcoming political opposition for freedom of the wilderness.  Patagonia Land Trust, Conservacion Patagonica, an organization working to conserve critical lands in southern Chile and Argentina has established two national parks under the stewardship of Kris and Doug Tompkins.

OCEANS by Disneynature
A trailer for the film, OCEANS, presented by the studio, Disneynature. Nearly three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water and OCEANS bodlu chronicles the mysteries that lie beneath. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankind.