Whether we want it or not, the "smart grid" is on its way. In this animated guide we show you the essential features. From the folks at Scientific American, visit their YouTube Channel for more video.

David Korten presentation to 39th Trinity Institute National Theological Conference on Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability. He is the author of the Agenda for A New Economy. Click on image to order from Amazon.com.

Why is it so hard to give it back? Citizen dividends in oil rich countries. Johnny West is a social entrepreneur and writer with 20 years professional experience in and around the oil industry. He began covering energy markets as a Reuters correspondent in the Middle East in the early 1990s.  He is founder of OpenOil and a transparency activist.

Animated explanation of Gunter Pauli's idea around a blue economy,moving beyond green. This is a link to his YouTube Channel.

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Impact Investing is an investement approach that allows you to pursue a financial return with social and environmental impact.  Author Jed Emerson, co-author of the book, Impact Investing, gives excellent examples and explaines how it differs from responsible investing.

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Professor Bartlett explains "sustainability" in the context of the First Law of Sustainability. Problems at local, national, and global levels are all tied together with arithmetic. And our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function. 

Joseph Stiglitz talks about Occupy Wall Street. Joseph E. Stiglitz is a graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT and became a full professor at Yale in 1970.  He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Co-Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information.

Hear Ray Anderson, Founder and Chairman of Interface, Inc., discuss his next book, CONFESSIONS OF A RADICAL INDUSTRIALIST. As leader of an organization that has been on the path toward sustainability since 1994 with the goal of zero footprint by 2020, Ray credibly proves the business case for sustainability. (August 2009)

At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce. (May 2009 TEDtalksDirector)

In response to Germany's expanded reliance on nuclear energy, Ursula Sladek, Goldman Prize winnder, created her country's first cooperatively-owned renewable power company. Learn more at http://www.goldmanprize.org/2011/europe.