Inspired by the Capital Institute's Third Millennium Economy initiative, this collection highlights those voices - ecological economists, sociologist, finance professionals, environmentalists, community developers - advocating a restructuring of our economy to transition to a truly sustainable economic system.
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What's the Purpose of Business? Not Shareholder Value by Gil Friend |
Running a profitable business that takes care of the environment, provides meaningful jobs, and helps the community is an oxymoron, right? Not so fast. Friend states that green business practices are good for business and the world. It's not shareholder value or profit. Gil Friend is Founder/CEO of Natural Logic, Inc. and Author of The Truth About Green Business EarthSayer Gil Friend |

Building A Caring Economy by Riane Eisler

Give It Back! Oil and the Smart Citizen Dividend by Johnny West

The Environmental Imperative by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Part 1 of 2

Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability by David Korten

The Economics of Happiness

What and How To Measure By Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

Rio+20 Summit - Sha Zukang

What Is Value by Rory Sutherland

Enough is Enough by Ashol Khosla

Pioneers of the new economy by Michael Shuman

Davos Annual Meeting 2011 Economic Outlook

What's the Purpose of Business? Not Shareholder Value by Gil Friend

The Economic Naturalist by Robert Frank

The Blue Economy by Gunter Pauli

Building A Caring Economy: Four Actions by Riane Eisler

Prosperity Without Growth 1 of 2 by Tim Jackson

The Future of Globalization by Jeffrey Sachs

GrowthBusters Hooked on Growth by Dave Gardner

Sustainability: Looking Away by John Perkins

Visions of a Sustainable World by Paul Raskin

The Unregulated Free Market by Mat Stein, Part 2 of 2

Top Ten Largest Military Budgets in 2011

Prosperity without Growth 2 of 2 by Tim Jackson

Grameen Bank: Humanizing the Face of Poverty by Shan Ali

Rethinking Our Economic System

Canada's Social Finance Report

The New, New Deal by EcoTrust

Measuring What Matters by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Part 2 of 2

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy by Juliet Schor

How can financial markets help protect the environment?

At the Intersection of Politics and Economics by Gar Alperovitz

Sustainability and 3(e) TBL by Julia Anastasio

The Environment and Economy in Conflict by Dean Gus Speth

The Pricing Trap by Gerard O'Neill

Sustainability and Externalizing Costs by John Fullerton

A Sustainability Culture Pays Off by George Serafeim

Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing

How Free Is the Free Market? - Raj Patel

Introduction to New World Bank President Dr. Jim Kim

Toward a Truly Free Market by John Medaille

How do environmentalism and sustainabiliy differ?

Green Economy and Sustainable Development

There is no one policy, no one recipe by Elinor Ostrom

Conscious Capitalism: Triple Bottom Line

Sustainability and Impact Investing by John Fullerton

Nature's Role in Economic Development by Sir Partha DasGupta

Sustainability, Innovation and Economic Recovery by Jean Brittingham

Fueling a Green Recovery by Richard Pollin
Challenges to Economic Prospects: Gordon Brown 2008

New Economics Party in New Zealand by Deirdre Kent

Vision Across Boundries and Understanding Connections

Can financial markets protect the environment by Adam Davis

Born to Buy by Juliet Schor

Changing Structural Context of our Economy by Jeffrey Hollender

How Corporations Became Persons by Thom Hartmann

We Are Laying Groundwork for "Next Great Revolution" by Gar Alperovitz

Just The Way It Is by Dr. Susan Krumdieck

What is Impact Investing? by Jed Emerson

The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones

RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: Building a Whole Earth Economy by Peter Brown

Can We Afford the Future by Dr. Frank Ackerman

Plan A, Because There is No Plan B - Mike Barry, Marks & Spencer

The Paradigm Project by Greg Spencer

Alan AtKisson: Describing the History of GDP

Sacred Ecomics by Charles Eisenstein

What is artificial material scarcity? by Marcin Jakubowski

Occupy Wall Street by Joseph Stiglitz

Who controls the world? by James B. Glattfelder

Sustainability and The Future of Capitalism by Jonathon Porritt

Can A Green Business be a Profitable One by Gary Hirshberg

A View of Occupy Wall Street by David Korten

Poverty and the Recovering Economy by Elizabeth Lynne

The Ten Principles Of Economics and What They Mean

Proving Sustainability Drives Commercial Success by Anthony Kleanthous

The Future of Economic Growth by Michael Spence

Grasslands and Carbon by John Fullerton

Introduction to the Future Prosperity Panel

Are we in control of our own decisions? asks Dan Ariely

Economic Transformation Not Enough by Professor Will Steffen

Criminality and Morality by Sharif Abdullah

Sustainability: Accounting Reform? by Larry O'Connor

Scoring Green Prosperity by Hazel Henderson

Entrepreneuring the Green Economy by Hunter Lovins

Broadband, the Internet and Economic Development by John Davies

The Right Thing To Do by William Rees

Redefine Profit and Reset the Economy by Prof Roger Steare

Peak Oil and the Globe's Limitations by Richard Heinberg

Ecological Sustainability vs. the Growth Imperative

Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

The Failure Of Success by George Land

Cultural Capitalism by Slovoj Zizek, philosopher

Measuring Carbon Data by David Metcalfe

Jobs in a Schrinking Economy by Peter Victor

Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff

Re-thinking the Future by Ellen MacArthur with Jon Snow

Capable Citizens and Functioning Ecosystems by Joss Tantram

The Lost Decade of the Middle Class by Pew Research Center

Change or Be Changed by Lester Brown

The Challenges Ahead for a Sustainable Future by Robert Costanza