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Author, journalist, TV presenter and human rights advocate, Tara Moss, tours the darkest corners of the web to uncover the cyber violence that's impacting so many people today. Moss tells her own story of dealing with online threats and abuse and affirms the positives and negatives of online life. She reveals first-hand stories of cyberhate from others in the public eye and everyday people who have unwillingly been thrust into the spotlight through...
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President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law 50 years ago. Gwen Ifill examines its legacy and unfinished business with President Johnson’s daughter, Lynda Johnson Robb; Shirley Franklin, the former mayor of Atlanta; Ranjana Natarajan of the University of Texas School of Law; and former House Republican aide Robert Kimball.
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In this program, Hazel Henderson explores the personal story of award-winning civic leader and Leadership Is Global co-author Thais Corral. Thais and her family came to Brazil from Spain, bringing their entrepreneurial skills and creativity. She studied in Italy and in the U.S. at the University of Chicago and Harvard. She created 400 radio programs broadcasted to empower women across Brazil and became a co-founder of the global Women's Environment...
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In this video, Hazel Henderson explains the controversy and problems surrounding mining gems from the earth and her own solution to the issue. By creating a standard for scientifically crafted diamonds called Ethic Mark Gems, Henderson hopes to shift the trend from favoring Earth-mined diamonds for fine jewelry to the crafted gems. Meet author and consultant Frank Dixon, who shares information and perspective with Henderson regarding her goals for...
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In this program, Ethical Markets Media founder Hazel Henderson discusses with award-winning civic leader Thais Corral, co-author of Leadership Is Global, the transitions occurring in her country Brazil. Brazil has all the resources and capital assets it needs to make the transition to sustainability. However, the obsolete fossil-fueled industrial model is still imposed by foreign investors and traditional financial models. Thais Corral points to Brazil's...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Frank Dixon, MBA, author of Global System Change, the massive transition now underway to innovate and build societies powered by renewable energy and resources. All are based on more cooperative sharing models. This transition management is driven by paradigms beyond traditional economics, based on new understanding of human behavior and the integrated science of Earth systems. This new knowledge is...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses a range of global challenges and transition management strategies with Frank Dixon (Harvard MBA), former head of global research with social auditing firm Innovest. They consider the ways in which global geopolitics is evolving in response to the systemic changes to our planet's ecosystems due to human activities. Frank Dixon's book, Global System Change, maps these global issues and connects the dots. The...
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Dystopia is a word to label fictional portrayals of negative utopias. This film deals with the very real hell on earth that is experienced by nearly a billion people right now. It predicts that the dystopia that is here for many will become increasingly prevalent for more and more of us. Humanity faces many different sorts of crises: environmental, political, and economic. These crises will continue to worsen unless the drastic systemic change is...
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The third documentary in the collection deals with the vast farming lands that the waters of the river irrigate. The most impressive beneficiaries of the river’s lavishness are the orchids and the lotuses. All along the Southern part of the course of the stream, the climate is very warm and favorable to the production of a large diversity of fruits. They are sold on the great market of Bangkok or, in a more traditional way, on the boats of the numerous...
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Nowadays, people can live in the Doge's Palace of Venice in China or pray in a copy of St. Peter's Basilica in West Africa. This program investigates these and other replicas of the world's most famous landmarks to understand why they were built and how they are inhabited. Doppelgängers are as ancient as the history of architecture, but today's copies have changed in both scale and purpose. Between lucrative investments, architectural piracy, and...
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In this video, watch founder and president of Ethical Markets Hazel Henderson discuss climate change, rising sea levels, greenhouse gas emissions, and more with author and consultant John Englander. Englander is a geologist, an ocean expert, and the author of High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis. Topics include the geology of varying coastal cities, the Earth's rising temperature, and the disruption of natural ice...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson and geologist/oceans expert and author of Rising Tide on Main Street John Englander discuss the ways that humans can practice transition management: by mitigating and adapting to rising sea levels. The long-term processes set in motion by rising global temperatures, melting glaciers, and polar ice sheets are altering risk-analyses models in finance, insurance and business. Henderson and Englander consider how investments...
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For the Canela, peace is more important than justice, and sharing-especially of sexual partners-means survival and prosperity. By putting the good of the tribe first, the Canela have retained their tribal identity for centuries, thanks both to the bonding that occurs through ritualized, extramarital, multiple-partner sex and to their ability to maintain communal harmony via their intricate family relationships. But can they survive the outside influences...
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Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa—eventually dominating the planet. How did these early humans acquire the skills, technology, and talent to thrive in every environment on earth? Takes a global journey through the past, following our ancestors' footsteps out of Africa along a trail of scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of how we got where we are.
16) Isolated Tribes
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Today, there are approximately 100 tribes in the Amazon rainforest that have not interacted with the modern world. A hundred years ago, there were many more.
17) Plutocrats
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Plutocrats, a term coined by Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who won the Lionel Gelber Prize, and an FT Best Book of the Year for her book carrying the same name, is a documentary that travels through a world increasingly paralyzed by joblessness, debt, and economic uncertainty. The film depicts a world where the wealth gap is now greater than it was in the Gilded Age, the age of the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts. Shot in the Ukraine,...
18) Tashirabgais
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This program by anthropologist Barrie Machin features Tashirabgais, an important member of the Ladakh Ecocentre and interpreter of Buddhism and the environment.
19) Tribe: Layap
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Trekking into the high Himalayan Mountains of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people is a spiritual journey for Bruce Parry. The Layap are devout Buddhists and yak herders, cut off from the outside world for half the year by deep snow.