Eero Paloheimo has worked as designer, politician and university professor. He has written eight books and many articles about the prospects of future and environmental issues. In this lecture, he emphasizes we have but decades to change our attitude from us being the disease to being the doctor.  Here are the first two of his strategies to change the world. First strategy is first aid. Second strategy is user (consumer) health care - we produce things and do not design to work properly and must plan new cities.

These are the world's largest defense budgets, broken down by total spent and percentage of world total by continent.

Monckton's Stance on Climate Change is bunkum that is to say nonsense.

"Yes, there is a greenhouse effect. Yes, CO2 contributes to it. Yes, it causes warming. Yes, we emit CO2. Yes, warming will result. But not a lot."

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.

Community partnerships challenge each of us to understand our own relationships and experience, to come to grips with your own day to day living - a comparison action that you have to take part in.  Mr. Patton was addressing the NW Environmental Health Conference sponsored by Portland State University, February, 2012 as a panelist on A Case Study of University-Community Partnership in Portland, Oregon.  Special thanks to videographer Maegan Prentice of Eyeopening Video.

We need to move from one-way systems to ones that create cycles - recycling as it is practiced in our natural systems. Canadian Lehna Malmkvist reviews some projects to demonstrate what she is talking about and what has been learned. This is her speech at TEDXBerlin in March of 2012.

TEDxBerlin brings the artist and musician Nik Nowak to talk about how sound claims space and its use as a weapon, particularly against civil demonstrators. He includes a discussion of the use of the "human microphone" and the speechlessness of the system.

This is "a really really really short history of nearly everything", in four amazing facts that reveal important and fundamental things about the world and our lives within it.
The first is that we exist, under the circumstances of inestimable chance within the history of the universe, the three others follow with telling consequences about how we should think about our lives on this planet. (2010)

Raw materials, rare-earth metals, conflict minerals are discussed by John Elkington in this interview.

John Elkington is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Volans, co-founder and Non-Executive Director at SustainAbility. He blogs here.  www.johnelkington.com/journal and tweets @volandia. Read the blog at www.kajembren.com