Green Ethics

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How can we work towards a greener planet and a more sustainable lifestyle? Businesspeople, environmentalists, and scholars discuss the issues and offer solutions, many of which will surprise you.

Green Ethics is a curated collection from the Carnegie Council. It includes half hour interviews from the Just Business and Advocates for Ethics in Business series and short 90 second and two minutes pieces from the Global Ethics Corner series.

Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.

In the Carnegie Council's Advocates for Ethics in Business interview series, leaders confront the ethical minefield of global business practices.Experts from many sectors create their own definitions of corporate social responsibility, environmental sustainability and successful economic development.

Global Ethics Corner is a weekly 2-minute interstitial examination of newsworthy ethical issues, hosted and produced by Carnegie Council Senior Fellow William Vocke.
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Green Ethics is a curated collection from the Carnegie Council. It includes half hour interviews from the Just Business and Advocates for Ethics in Business series and short 90 second and two minutes pieces from the Global Ethics Corner series. Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society. In the Carnegie Council's Advocates for Ethics in Business interview series, leaders confront the ethical minefield of global business practices.Experts from many sectors create their own definitions of corporate social responsibility, environmental sustainability and... Show full description


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Oil is cost-efficient as a primary energy source -- in the short term. Long-term, however, oil poses economic risks and damages the environment. Sh...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Due to the high demand of energy, competitive costs, and environmental concerns, nuclear power seemed like a reasonable option. The earthquake and ...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Joan Krevlin's work as an architect demonstrates what integrity can bring to a career. Deploying form and function with integrity is key to design....

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 25:25
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A professor at Yale University, a landscape architect, and an urban ecologist, Alex Felson creates designs that take local and built environments i...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 26:42
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Jonathan Rose discusses his focus on green building and transportation as key drivers in combating climate change.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 27:17
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The global circulation of goods is a major source of both prosperity and carbon emissions. This short video on ethics asks: Can trade be regulated ...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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Julia Kennedy interviews Joan Krevlin on the architect's role in creating sustainable communities.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 25:13
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As an executive at RecycleBank, Ian Yolles is familiar with incentives and sustainability. The company's business mission is to entice consumers to...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 30:22
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William Powers discusses his life's journey, including time in Liberia and Bolivia, and a stay in a 12 x 12-foot cabin with no electricity or runni...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 25:14
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Global warming makes it impossible to limit environmentalism to one country. Should geoengineering be regulated multilaterally before rogue countri...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
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Offshore oil spills have devastating consequences, yet storm-drain runoff from leaky cars and gas stations can be just as bad. Do the risks of deep...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
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What should be the balance between preservation and consumption? Should there be a global ethic for protecting endangered species? If so, how shoul...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
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Three-quarters of the world's fish stocks are in distress and many fisheries could collapse by midcentury. Should we ban industrial fishing or regu...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
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Half the world now lives in cities, and they are growing. Are megacities an opportunity or a threat?

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
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How do we balance the short-term interests at stake in the energy debate with our long-term needs?

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
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Is climate change a common public burden, or should individuals make their own choices? Globally do modernized countries have an obligation to deve...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
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By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. Wh...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
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Can we regulate international space like the oceans? Pollution and illegal or unregulated fishing plague international waters. How can the problem ...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
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Who pays to stop global warming? How to allocate emissions allowances? If people are entitled to an equal share of the world's resources, should na...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
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How do we put value on the forests as an indispensable element of our survival? Can we balance market mechanisms with regulations and consumption w...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
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