Here is my highly subjective selection of powerful video files that say things that make us think - and re-think.
November 28, 2008
November 22, 2008
A Cassandra for the financial crisis
On the financial crisis: Financial pundit Peter Schiff predicting - to general laughter - the crisis in 2006-07.
November 21, 2008
Chief Oren Lyons on Climate Crisis
This is a speech by Chief Oren Lyons (Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee, Six Nations, Iroquois Confederacy Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, New York), illustrated with beautiful footage from Greenland.
November 20, 2008
Disappearing forests in the US (a New York Times video)
A very powerful report on the pine beetle epidemic, destroying forests all across western North America.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/science/1194811622277/index.html#1194833211431
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November 6, 2008
November 5, 2008
Obama's victory - live with Jon Stewart & Steven Colbert
The historic moment, live on The Daily Show's Election Night Special. Now, were those real tears or not? And where were YOU at that moment?
October 20, 2008
Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama - a beautiful moment
Words of wisdom from a man who really knows how to present an argument. Beautiful and powerful.
September 26, 2008
September 17, 2008
September 15, 2008
September 12, 2008
Jon Stewart on the Republican Convention (...and more)
Sarah Palin gender card. Exposing hypocrisy is so much fun.
September 11, 2008
David Letterman: Rant on Global Warming
When introducing Thomas Friedman, David Letterman went wild on the topic of global warming.
August 31, 2008
Two great MTV commercials
MTV is running a campaign called MTV Switch. Here are two of its great commercials - read more at www.mtvswitch.org.
August 1, 2008
July 7, 2008
July 6, 2008
July 5, 2008
A Conversation with James G. Speth
A one-hour armchair conversation on a wide range of issues with Gus Speth, a towering figure of environmental policy.
July 4, 2008
Thomas Berry on Humans and the natural world
Thomas Berry, soon 95 years old, talks about the difficult relationship between humans and the natural world
July 2, 2008
Ashok Khosla on poverty eradication
Ashok Khosla, founder of Development Alternatives in India, on poverty eradication
July 1, 2008
Manfred Max-Neef (1)
Part 1 of an interview with Manfred Max-Neef - on the limits of economic thinking
June 29, 2008
Jared Diamond on why societies fail and collapse
From TED2003, a 20-minute digest of his important book.
June 7, 2008
Obama's "Yes we can" by will.i.am
Viral online activism at its best: will.i.am and friends adapting Obama's "Yes we can" message into a music video.
May 7, 2008
March 8, 2008
John P. Milton teaching
John P Milton, ecologist and teacher, demonstrates simple meditation stances
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- Alexander Crawford
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Här är min samling inspirerande artiklar och tankar om världen vi lever i 2012. Jag arbetar på Tällberg Foundation i Stockholm, där jag är sköter vår löpande omvärldsanalys (och jobbar med program- och processdesign för Tällberg Forum). Men innehållet här är endast mina egna tankar.
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