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Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
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Organized religion may be influenced by culture as much as by divine inspiration, and yet there are many similarities among the mainstream faiths. This program compares the defining features of the seven largest religions and finds common threads among Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and the Baha'i Faith. Using detailed examples, the video looks at structural similarities-a persecuted prophet, the importance of scriptures...
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this poignant and timely biography, Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good shows how the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) saved the United States economy during the Great Depression and militarized industry in time to win World War II. RFC strategies and Jesse Jones’s approaches can be adapted now to address the impacts of the new coronavirus and climate change. President Herbert Hoover had established the RFC...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gardens do not take care of themselves. Poor soil, pests, disease, fungus, and inclement weather can ruin plants and a gardener’s zeal. In When Good Gardens Go Bad, veteran author and pioneer organic gardener Judy Barrett offers safe, practical, and inexpensive advice for handling common garden problems and challenges. Plants thrive and fail for many reasons, but if you improve the soil, choose the right plants, plant them at the right time, and...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Can Finance Save the World? Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good
Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007–2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badré says that finance is inherently neither good nor bad....
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English
Description
This program with Bill Moyers examines why America has become an unfriendly culture for families and children, and explores ways to rebuild a web of support for families. Among those featured on the program are Rosalie Streett, Exec. Director of Parent Action (Baltimore, MD); Jill Bradley, Director of Child Care Services, Chicago Housing Authority; and Richard Louv, author of the book Childhood's Future. They discuss some of the practical steps needed...
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Language
English
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In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses a range of global challenges and transition management strategies with Frank Dixon (Harvard MBA), former head of global research with social auditing firm Innovest. They consider the ways in which global geopolitics is evolving in response to the systemic changes to our planet's ecosystems due to human activities. Frank Dixon's book, Global System Change, maps these global issues and connects the dots. The...
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English
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In this program Hazel Henderson and Los Angeles-based asset manager Gregory Wendt, principal of Stakeholder Capital, talk about the importance of new ways of managing assets based on wider analyses beyond the failed economic and financial models which crashed in 2008. This new view is multi-disciplinary and based on whole systems analyses. Just as asset managers who invested in fossil fuels had to learn principles of geology, and are now learning...
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