CNBC - 09.12.2009 - Interview with Tom Knutzen CEO of Danisco, a Denmark company that develops and produces food ingredients, enzymes, and bio-based solutions. He discusses opportunities to invest in technology solutions with solid businss plans and with support from politicians in terms of time horizons and even a carbon tax. All part of the need to combat climate change. Briefly discusses need for support of their natural product designed to replace the rubber coming out of rain forests and from fossil fuel. Not sure it can be cost-competitive, a tax on carbon would make it easier. 

Sustainability: Audio: Costas Christ, an international expert on sustainable tourism, talks about how sustainable tourism is transforming the travel industry; in essence, how and why good stewardship is now good business and what this can mean for conservation efforts.

Public talk by Dr. Christine Woerlen, former head of the German Renewable Energy Agency; now an independent consultant with governments around the world.  Sponsored by the Climate Action Network of Canada, the principle here is that we must learn from the experience of other cities and countries, in this case, Germany. The question: Can Nova Scotia develop jobs throughout the province with an eco-economy that grows with the renewable energy revolution?

All eleven parts available at the Crest Halifax YouTube channel.

Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture talks about how being organic doesn't automatically mean you are in the camp of sustainability. Greening up what you are doing isn't going far enough and move from concept of steady state to resiliency. We have been drawing upon natures reserves of stored energy (hydrocarbons) and water resources at unsustainable rates, and those finite resources are diminishing rapidly; technology alone, will not provide substitute solutions.

Fred Kirschenmann is a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and a third-generation farmer (an organic farmer himself).  A record from his talk at the Organicology conference in Portland, Oregon. 

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Race for American Jobs in Columbus, Ohio

Part of a series featuring business and civic leaders to include the following, all of them addressing important issues of job creation and moving towards a low carbon economy.

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