In the United States, Mary Kay, Inc. is committed to changing the lives of women and children by helping to end and prevent domestic violence.

Cummins employees launched an ambitious program to eliminate all waste in a Pune, India neighborhood. In doing so, they transformed the lives of marginalized persons, known as "rag pickers" through a new economic model. The pilot serves as a model for the rest of Pune and, indeed, all of India.  The project was in partnership with Janwani, a social initiative of the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA).

In an ongoing effort to incorporate citizenship into the day-to-day operation of CSX, new management trainees in 2011 volunteered 2,328 hours over five different Saturdays to renovate The Sanctuary on 8th, an organization dedicated to providing education and enrichment to inner-city kids in a safe, welcoming environment.

Caterpillar invests with Mano a Mano to address the lack of access to health care in Bolivia, where the infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. By helping build roads, and thus growing access to medical clinics, the infant mortality rate is going down and many Bolivians are getting access to the health care they need.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of Bright Horizons, 25 employees were selected to spend a week in the poorest zip code in America creating a learning and play space for young children and their families. This is their story.

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Appiah and in this segment, Avital Ronel, literary critic, philosopher and feminist.

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Author of WeThink Charles Leadbeater talks about how web communities are revisiting older, more traditional forms of order.

Entrepreneur Ray Anderson visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his new book "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist." This event took place on October 5, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series

So what does sustainable innovation mean? Everybody says everything and anything about it and the concept can get blurry sometimes. We thought we'd give our own definition, elementary style, to get things clear! The "we" is Dassault Systemes the leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) headquartered in France.

Session 1 of "Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence", the Mind and Life XXIII conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in dialogue with contemplative scholars, activists and ecological scientists who discuss the interconnection between individual choices and environmental consequences. The conference was held at His Holiness's office in Dharamsala, India, from October 17-21, 2011.

Produced by the Mind and Life Institute ) and the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.