In these four videos world renowned authors, scientists, and scholars provide
convincing, illustrated discussions of the challenges we face as we restructure our economy to include environmental and social “externalities”. The concepts of
national accounting methods, resource exhaustion, energy efficiency, carrying capacity, and biodiversity are clearly presented in interviews, lectures, and documentary illustrations.
In “An Introduction to Ecological Economics,” you’ll learn about the field with
Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day; Herman Daly, founder of
ecological economics and co-author of the classic book, For the Common Good.
“Investing in Natural Capital” explores carrying capacity issues related to
agriculture, international trade, property rights, and over-population.
“Conversation for a Sustainable Society” features Amory and Hunter Lovins, Dennis Meadows, David Orr, and others, discussing energy efficiency, economic renewal,
utility reform, resource efficient technologies, and commercial retrofits.
“Costa Rica Counts the Future” is produced in Spanish and English and presents examples of Costa Rica’s adoption of ecological economics as official policy.
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