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Business is about purpose: R. Edward Freeman at TEDxCharlottesville 2013
EXPECT MORE FROM COMPANIES & BUSINESSES TODAY
R. Edward "Ed" Freeman is a prolific educator, consultant and speaker, best known for his work on the topics of Stakeholder Management and Business Ethics. He also teaches Leading with Meaning, helping organizations create a culture that brings out the best in everyone.
Freeman is perhaps best known for his award winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, first published in 1984 and reissued in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. This landmark book has helped to define and shape our understanding of how good management practice really is based on relationships—relationships with the stakeholders who affect or are affected by the business. Today, Freeman is working passionately to create long-term stakeholder value in business through the Institute for Business in Society and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. He believes that the ultimate purpose of business is to create value rather than to maximize profit. Freeman is excited about innovation and entrepreneurs that can help to solve the world's toughest problems. His massive online offering course (MOOC), New Models of Business in Society is reaching thousands around the globe.
Urban Design for Successful Cities: Alexandros Washburn at TEDxEQChCh
As Chief Urban Designer for the City of New York, Alexandros Washburn understands one key thing about designing successful cities: it doesn't work until it works for the pedestrian.
Sustainability: Are We The Monsters?: John Robinson at TEDxStanleyPark
John Robinson is the Associate Provost, Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, and a professor with UBC's Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability and Department of Geography. John will be speaking about regenerative sustainability and the unique potential for universities to become living laboratories of sustainability — by engaging students, staff and faculty in testing and evaluating sustainable behaviours, policies and programs at an urban neighbourhood scale, in partnership with the public, private and NGO sector. He believes that a regenerative sustainability future that is net positive in both human and environmental terms is possible, and much more desirable than the alternative. His greatest hope is that soon we collectively recognize that this is so.
Sustainability is fun AND easy!: Justin Mog at TEDxUofL 2012
Justin Mog's mission in life is to help people understand that sustainable solutions are not only fun and life-affirming, but they are all around us...we need only change the way we perceive and respond to the daily (and long-term) challenges of life.
Justin has served as the University of Louisville's Assistant to the Provost for Sustainability Initiatives since 2009. He earned his B.S. in Environmental Studies & Geology under the tutelage of David Orr at Oberlin College (1996) and went on to acquire an M.S. and Ph.D. (2003) in Land Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Environmental Studies. His graduate research focused on assessing the sustainability of international rural development projects, and his studies took him to Ghana, Costa Rica, and the southern Philippines as a Fulbright scholar in 2001. He continued this work from 2005-2008 when he lived with his wife in Paraguay working on sustainable rural development efforts with the U.S. Peace Corps and Plan Paraguay.
Justin seeks an Earth restored and lives his life accordingly, as a car-free, TV-free, vegetarian, beekeeping, gardening Quaker with a fully solar-powered home.
Truly sustainable economic development: Ernesto Sirolli at TEDxEQChCh
HOW TO START SUSTAINABILE BUSINESS REVOLUTION
Ernesto Sirolli got his start doing aid work in Africa in the 70's -- and quickly realised how ineffective it was. In this funny, challenging and passionate talk, Ernesto shares his deep insights into sustainable economic development, and how entrepreneurs can be truly supported to live their passions.
Sustainable is Possible: Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig at TEDxCarletonCollege
Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig is the Executive Director of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, the pioneering sustainability educator who heads up Ecovillage Education US, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Fellowship for Intentional Community. She believes strongly that sustainability is possible, assuming we can learn to cooperate, share and assess what really makes us happy, rather than staying bought in to the material excess culture we've been raised in.
In addition to more common sustainability work, she teaches cooperative group dynamics as a key skill set in moving us toward sustainability and spiritual activism as a framework for linking the personal and political. Ma'ikwe is a regular writer for Communities magazine and is the author of Passion as Big as a Planet: Evolving Eco-Activism in America.
TEDxHONOLULU - Matthew Lynch - Beyond Sustainability: The Story of a Reformed Capitalist
MORAL ETHICS: COLLABORATION BEFORE WE COMPETE!
& COMPETES FAIR: FIRST PEOPLE, PLANET & THEN PROFIT
Matthew is a reformed capitalist exploring Regenerative Design Sciences at the forefront of human innovation. He spent two years wandering the planet, in search of people, places, and projects working to make our world a better place. His work in Regenerative Agriculture, Regenerative Business, and Regenerative Economic Development has taken him (so far) to Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, Germany, and now Hawai'i. Matthew is the author of Regenerative Business 1.0: Beyond Sustainability and founder of The Asia-Pacific Center for Regenerative Design.
TEDxPotomac - Colin Beavan - To Hell with Sustainability
MORAL ETHICS: COLLABORATION BEFORE WE COMPETE!
& COMPETES FAIR: FIRST PEOPLE, PLANET & THEN PROFIT
Colin Beavan is an American grassroots green movement leader whose non-profit, The No Impact Project, helps citizens choose happier, more sustainable lifestyles. He founded the effort after launching a year-long project in 2006 when he, his wife, his daughter, and his dog went off the grid and attempted to live in the middle of New York City with as little environmental impact as possible.
Colin's experiment in lifestyle redesign is the subject of his book and a Sundance-selected documentary. He also was named one of MSN's Ten Most Influential Men of 2007 and an Eco-Illuminator in Elle Magazine's 2008 Green Awards. He has been featured in the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, and he has appeared on "The Colbert Report," "Good Morning America," and "Nightline."
Colin, a PhD electronic engineer, spent the late 80s and early 90s as a consultant to philanthropic organizations such as social housing providers, drug treatment agencies, and hospitals, helping them to promote themselves in order to maintain funding.
A life built on experiences, not stuff | Sean Bonner | TEDxVienna
Sean Bonner has been involved with media, online and off, for the better part of the last 16 years. He has been featured in GOOD, Wired, Playboy, Salon, Forbes and others, been included in Yahoo!'s Best of the Web, and has spoken at conferences, events, and coffee shops around the world. As co-founder and CEO of Bode Media Inc, Sean helped create Metblogs, the worlds largest network of local media blogs. As a consultant, he has helped The Groop, Jack In The Box, LAPD, Suicide Girls, Obey Giant, Shopzilla and others interact with their customers, clients, and fans online. He also speaks frequently at conferences covering blogs, media, networks and grassroots journalism. Recently he's spoken at IzeaFest (Orlando, FL), SXSWi (Austin, TX), Roboexotica (Vienna, Austria) and Re:Publica (Berlin, Germany). As an event organizer, Sean brought BarCamp to Los Angeles, NSC1 to Singapore, produced the first art exhibition comprised solely of phonecam images, ran art auctions and benefits for the West Memphis Three. Sean has also been a guest blogger/contributor for BoingBoing and hosted the iPhone game review show iPhun. He is also one of the founders of Crash Space, a Los Angeles hackerspace and is the creative director for the brand R5315T.