Geeta Aiyer, sustainable investing entrepreneur and Founder and President of Boston Common Asset Management, has been awarded the seventh-annual Joan Bavaria Award for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets. The announcement was made at the Ceres Conference 2015.

Sailing solo around the globe necessitates careful use of life sustaining resources such as food and water, and serves as a micro example of the massive resource challenge facing humanity today. Dame Ellen MacArthur shares the inspiring story of her journey as a record breaking yachtswoman to an international champion for the circular economy a system change in which we stop selling one-way consumption and instead focus on models that retain the value of our vital, finite resources.

Her story is followed by a QA with Jack Ehnes, Chief Executive Officer, California State Teachers Retirement System and Ceres Board member.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy delivers the keynote address at the Ceres Conference 2015, discussing the Clean Power Plan, Climate Change and how businesses and investors can support the transition to a clean energy economy.

Sam Pizzigati, Associate Fellow at the IInstitute for Policy Studies, discusses his new book, "The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970." He is editor of the blog, Too Much.The Institute for Policy Studies Youtube channel is here.

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A special presentation by Ellen MacArthur on the circular economy. BSR Conference 2015.November, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

Why are we so prone to creating silos in our institutions and workplaces and how can we break free of them to transform the way we think and act for the better? Award-wining FT columnist and author Gillian Tett investigates.Join her at the RSA as she lays bare the perils of the silo effect, and explains how individuals and institutions can break free of such barriers, to think and act more effectively, productively and creatively.

Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing, examines the concepts of freedom and liberty in relation to the free market economy. He suggests Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom's notion of collaborative governance known as "the commons" may be a better alternative to resource management.

If economics is about choices, who gets to make them? Activist and academic Raj Patel says that prices often mislead us, and he reveals the "hidden costs" of goods. To demonstrate his argument that the free market and corporations distort price and value, Patel suggests that the true price of a hamburger would be $200 if we factor in the hidden environment and health costs.

Naomi Klein author of "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate" speaking;

at the event The Nation LIVE!! at Town Hall Seattle October 15, 2015.

Kate Raworth flips economic thinking on its head to give a crash course in alternative economics, explaining in three minutes what they'll never teach you in three years of a degree. Find out why it's time to get into the doughnut...

Watch the video,Introducing 'The Doughnut' of social and planetary boundaries for development YouTube here.

Kate is an economist focused on the rewriting of economics to make it fit for addressing this century's realities and challenges. She is the creator of the doughnut of social and planetary boundaries which, since being first published by Oxfam in 2012, has gained widespread international recognition and influence in reframing sustainable development, including shaping the United Nations' post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. She is currently writing Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, to be published by Random House in Spring 2016.

Kate is a senior visiting research associate and lecturer at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, and a senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She has presented doughnut economics widely – from the UN General Assembly to the Occupy Movement – and her writing has featured in The Guardian, The New Statesman, Resurgence, Nature Climate Change, and Wired. She has been named by The Guardian as "one of the top ten tweeters on economic transformation”.

Over the past two decades she was senior researcher at Oxfam, co-author of the UN Human Development Report, and a fellow of the Overseas Development Institute in Zanzibar. She holds a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a MSc in Economics for Development, both from Oxford University.

Kate blogs about Doughnut Economics at www.kateraworth.com and tweets @KateRaworth.

March 28, 2015 - Oregon’s Broad Hemp Future panel led by Hemp Author Doug Fine, with Oregon Hemp Farmer: Edgar J Winters, Biomass Refinement Expert: Ed Lehrberger from PureVision Technology, Don E. Wirtshafter from The Ohio Hempery, Oregon Hemp Attorney: Courtney Moran; Rick Kiyak-Nighton with Tradewinds Hemp Co. and Dave Seber from Hemp Shield Wood Treatments. Special thanks to Jerry Norton and the Oregon Hemp Convention and the O.A.F.R.C. (Oregon Agriculture Food and Rural Consortium).

Video by: Barry Heidt
Production by: Brian ~The Red