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This program discusses the importance of ethics in research and presents an overview of research studies that have raised ethical issues, including Milgram's obedience study, the Tuskegee studies, and Zimbardo's prison study. The program looks at such elements of ethical research as informed consent, right to privacy, right to withdraw, and debriefing.
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As corporations continue to think globally, the rapidly deteriorating state of the environment is demanding that they act locally-now. This program brings together the president of the World Bank and visionary corporate leaders to map out a plan for a sustainable future that everyone can live with. British Petroleum, an industry giant committed to reducing greenhouse gases; the Otto Group, a German conglomerate that factors environmental protection...
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Some call it a winner-take-all opportunity. Others call it the exploitation of scarcity in its most extreme form. This program challenges big business's alarming rush to commodify the world's common resources-things as basic to life as drinkable water and human genes. Proponents of the common good square off against promoters of "business as usual," speaking out on controversial issues including exporting water from Canada, creating hybrid crop seeds...
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The debate over athletes' use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs has taken on newfound urgency in recent years with more and more revelations of widespread use throughout the sports world. Are these athletes breaking the rules for an unfair advantage over others? Are they endangering their own health, and that of younger athletes encouraged to follow suit? Or is it hypocritical for society to disdain drug use for sports, when it encourages...
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As traditional cattle-raising by independent producers is displaced by the intense livestock production of agribusiness giants, consumers are paying the price. This in-depth program examines the practices of North American meat multinationals, which raise livestock on huge feedlots. Genetic engineering, growth hormones, antibiotics, the monopolization of world markets, and other issues are addressed, along with concerns that these beefed-up cattle...
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From texting to email to video calls, digital technology has transformed how we communicate with each other. But in formal situations like at work or in school, which forms of communications are appropriate, and when? Viewers of this video, especially digital natives, may be surprised to discover that communicating isn't just about sharing information-it's creating it-and that the ways in which emails, texts or voice messages are composed and conveyed...
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Businesses have invaded the web and found ingenious ways to make money from a free space - at a cost to our culture and privacy. What lessons did retailers such as Amazon learn from the gold rush years of the dotcom bubble? How did Google forge the business model that has come to dominate today's web?
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This video includes four short segments (HOLY WAR, JUST WAR, THE PRIEST WHO BLESSED THE BOMB, and CONTEMPT OF CONSCIENCE) specifically designed to assist teachers in delivering dynamic lessons on the ethics of war and peace including. Produced with much skill, this film explains clearly and succinctly the challenges faced by those who have the terrible responsibility of engaging in a war and how those who are engaged should behave.
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In this video, Hazel Henderson interviews Terry Mollner, author of Common Good Capitalism: It's Next!. They discuss the future of capitalism and their desire that private companies will implement ethical rules on competition. Topics include: social responsibility, Ben and Jerry's, Unilever, and the role of duopolies.
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This NewsHour program scrutinizes the state of business ethics in an America riddled with financial fraud. In segment one, correspondent Paul Solman and Columbia Business School's Barbara Toffler cite Arthur Andersen and Stew Leonard, Sr., as examples of ethics gone awry. Segment two gathers the opinions of veteran business journalists Adam Smith, Carol Loomis, Allan Sloan, Jim Grant, and Andrew Tobias on the practices of Enron, Tyco, Morgan Stanley,...
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Robert Greenwald's UNMANNED: AMERICA'S DRONE WARS investigates the impact that U.S. drone strikes have across the globe. Focusing on Pakistan, the film challenges official government casualty reporting and exposes the human face of civilian victims, the far-reaching implications for the communities that live under drones, and the potential for fallout if policies are not changed.
13) Global Gay
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Whether it be regarding legalization in the Middle-East and Africa or the focus of gay marriage laws in the West, after years of long diplomatic struggle, several world leaders have declared themselves in favor of the universal decriminalization of homosexuality. But victory won't come easily. The countries that still punish homosexuality refuse to give in to international pressure. This film follows this battle for decriminalization through the lives...
14) Fashion Victims
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The Australian Broadcasting Company made this film shortly after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, which killed over 1000 factory workers. The film presents the human consequences of that disaster and focuses on the connection of Australian and other international retailers to suppliers in Bangladesh who pay low wages, abuse workers, and provide often unsafe working conditions.
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In this program, Hazel Henderson and Michael Grunwald continue discussing how the cleaner, greener knowledge-rich technologies and companies are affecting the overall market. The stimulus from the Obama administration trickle into many unacknowledged areas of everyday life. Listen as they discuss the successes and failures of the stimulus and compare it to the use of Austerity in other Nations.
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In India, farmers struggle to grow their crops during the long dry months. International Development Enterprises India, led by Amitabha Sadangi, has developed simple drip irrigation systems which hydrate plants a drop of water at a time and cost as little as $1. They enable farmers to produce crops in the dry season-farmers who would normally have to look for other work while waiting for the monsoon, even migrating to urban slums for part of the year....
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In a 2009 poll, around 1 percent of American adults reported eating no animal products. In a poll two years later, that number had risen to 2.5 percent-more than double-but still dwarfed by the 48 percent who reported eating meat, fish, or poultry. Considering issues of health, morality, and the environment, should people be vegetarians or carnivores?
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This program travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh-some traditional, some fair trade-to expose unsafe work environments and labor exploitation. Finding little meaningful difference between fair trade and non-fair trade operations, questions arise: Are fair trade organizations such as the E.U.'s Max Havelaar Foundation being duped by tea growers? Or are growers doing the best they can in a brutal industry and a market that...
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We are on the brink of a technological revolution. Machines and artificial intelligence are beginning to replace jobs like never before. This program looks at the workplaces already using this new technology and asks whether we should feel threatened by it, or whether it will benefit all of us. Are we ready for one of the biggest changes the world of work has ever seen?
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The UN estimates that there are more than 150 million homeless children worldwide. Most are at risk of abuse, prostitution, and drug addiction, and frequently enter adulthood without any schooling or employable skills. In the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, thousands of children live on the streets. Friends International provides education, vocational training, and work experience in shops and restaurants so these youngsters can find a way off the...