Title: The Roots of Sustainability Thinking by Karl-Henrik Robert

Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, a Swedish cancer doctor and medical researcher, founded The Natural Step to inject some science into the environmental debate - and provide a solid foundation for action. Interview by Barry Heidt, filmmaker and producer, Lincoln City, Oregon.

He talks at a very personal level of his journey in creating a big picture of what we could agree on when it comes to the conditions of this planet and how to live prosperous lives here without destroying it. For more videos on Portland's sustainability progress, visit visit naturalsteponline's YouTube channel.

Trailer for Portland's Matt Briggs' feature length documentary Deep Green highlighting the best ideas and solutions that lower carbon energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions all over the world.  Individual, entrepreneurial, and academic environmental solution pioneers are featured to include:  Michael Pollan, David Suzuk, Lester Brown, Amory Lovins, Barbara Finamore, Ed Kjaer,  Dr Andy Frank, Shi Zheng Rong, Huang Ming, Marc Porat, Vincent Fertin and many more local Portland green builders. Find more videos and content at www.deepgreenfilms.com  

Zoning for People and Fish: Tools for Marine Spatial Planning - Spatial planning is gaining momentum as the most effective means to protect sensitive marine ecosystems around the world. Since 2001, Ecotrust has worked with state agencies, nonprofit organizations, and fishing communities to offer integrated ecological and economic assessments of fishery policy and marine conservation. Learn more: http://www.ecotrust.org/ocean/.

Kip Ward, owner of the Historic Anchor Inn in Lincoln City, Oregon, a central coast beach town,  talks about the importance of the first step towards a sustainable lifestyle and getting started.

Conversations host Harry Kreisler of the University of Berkeley welcomes Amory Lovins for a discussion of Natural Capitalism ( http://www.natcap.org/ ). Lovins explains the origins and mission of Rocky Mountain Institute ( http://www.rmi.org/ ) and analyzes the opportunities and benefits of using the profit motive to redesign the relationship between the environment and capitalism. Drawing on his thirty year career as an innovator and scientist, he analyzes the mechanisms by which ideas can impact business practice and government policy with the goal of sustaining the environment.

Hunter Lovins discusses the nest of issues surrounding sustainability and how these issues are forcing change whether we like it or not.  She emphasizes that there is now strong evidence that the companies that are adopting sustainability practices and principles are out performing their competitors.

Race For American Jobs

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discussion on the advantages of investing, now, in a low carbon economy, a shift in thinking, and to start wit a establishing a price on carbon. In partnership with We Can Lead, BICEP ran the "Race for American Jobs: Clean Energy Leadership", a coast-to-coast virtual race to drive home the economic and job-creation benefits of national climate and energy legislation. The four-week campaign engaged business leaders across the country with events in Oregon, Colorado, Ohio and New Hampshire, before traveling to Washington on March 10. Each event featured a lively panel discussion with large consumer brands and local clean economy entrepreneurs.

Sustainability Clean Tech and Energy, thought leadership, 2010.