TEDxGuelphU- Ben Bradshaw - Environmental Governance
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Ben's research broadly seeks to identify the economic, political and cultural determinants of environmental degradation in Western society, and the various tools of governance that might best alleviate such degradation. To date, case studies have been drawn from mining (e.g. company-community agreements, corporate social responsibility), forestr... Read more
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- -: TEDxGuelphU- Ben Bradshaw - Environmental Governance
May 4, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Ben's research broadly seeks to identify the economic, political and cultural determinants of environmental degradation in Western society, and the various tools of governance that might best alleviate such degradation. To date, case studies have been drawn from mining (e.g. company-community agr...
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- -: TEDxOslo - Øyvind Vada - Hierarchies and networks
June 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Øyvind Vada is an entrepreneur, social scientist and the founder of Memetor. Memetor turns strategy into action releasing individual and collective potential. The company has offices in Brussels, Oslo and Singapore. The concept is delivered all around the world, from Brussels, Geneva, Paris, Stoc...
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- -: John Fetterman: Reviving Braddock
July 13, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Braddock, Pennsylvania Mayor John Fetterman is fighting for the future of his rust belt town's future. Braddock has lost ninety percent of its buildings and most of its population. Yet Fetterman's ambitious plans include repurposing abandoned lots and fostering numerous arts and community initiat...
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- -: Porter and Mykleby: A Grand Strategy for the Nation
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Naval Captain Porter and Col. Mykleby of the Marines, military strategists working at the highest level of government, present highlights from their paper, "A National Strategic Narrative." Their ideas—less military force, more social capital and more sustainable practices in energy and agricultu...
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- -: Anne-Marie Slaughter: Lego World
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Anne-Marie Slaughter shares her insights on the transformation of state and non-state actors. Whereas we used to exist within a world of nation-states, billiard balls knocking against one another, we now live in a network of modular, ad hoc organizations—both governmental and non-governmental. We...
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- -: Arvind Subramanian: China's ascendance
November 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Arvind Subramanian explains that China's ascendance is not approaching but already upon us. The country's growing dominance will be more imminent, broader in scope and greater than previously imagined. He asks us to imagine a world with, not the G20, nor even the G2, but the sole G1: the reality ...
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- -: Jonathan Greenblatt: New models for social progress
November 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jonathan Greenblatt, the White House's new head of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, describes the rise of an "impact economy" - a new approach to social problem solving that involves impact investing and new hybrids of business and philanthropy to scale social progress.
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- -: الرئيس أوباما يتحدث في غانا
July 14, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)"لحظة وعد جديدة" الرئيس أوباما يخاطب برلمان غانا في العاصمة أكرا يوم 11 تموز/يوليو 2009 (لا قيود على إعادة النشر) Also available in other languages here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvwYWabWvs
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- -: Olafur Grimsson: Iceland Bounces Back
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The President of Iceland describes how his country encountered social and democratic upheaval after the economic crisis of 2008. Over the last three years, by combining wide-scale systemic inquiry into governance and judicial systems as well as a long-standing investment in clean energy and techn...
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Paul Collier: The "Bottom Billion"
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Paul Collier shows the different huge opportunities to help out the countries at the bottom billion.
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