This talk by Loren Swift is about the role of social sustainability in serving and supporting environmental sustainability and global problem solving. The way we relate to one another, how we communicate, how we know ourselves in relationship, all play a vital role in creating and supporting all the endeavors necessary to come through this time of great transition.

Barbara Simic, Manager, Community Investment & Volunteerism of ConocoPhillips Canada sat down for an interview by Peggy Connolly at the 2011 International Corporate Citizenship Conference, April 10-12, convened in Minneapolis by the Carroll School of Management Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College.

Parts of a lecture by M. Jahi Chappell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Justice at Washington State University, Vancouver to the Social Sustainability Colloquium at Portland State University, January 27, 2012. Entitled, Ecological Sustainability, Food, and Human Rights: The Necessity of 'Action Ecology' Dr. Chappell discusses the role of scientists as citizens and credible advocates. He suggests both are appropriate and when coupled with participation and outreach to the community, especially in the University setting, are effective at changing the status quo.

Videotaped by Ruth Ann Barrett, Sustainability Advocate, and founder of www.EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability.

Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Elinor Ostrom. She worries about the news and text books promoting one way solutions to complex issues. There is not one way, no one recipe. She is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University.

Rick Ridgeway gives the Patagonia mission statement and the five prescribed actions, starting with examine your own life. He is a National Geographic Lifetime Achievement in Adventure award winner as well as an author, photographer and environmentalist.