The American economy will face significant and widespread disruptions from climate change. Our health, safety and prosperity are threatened unless policymakers and businesses take immediate action to respond to and reduce climate risk. This panel will highlight innovative public-private solutions and discuss how businesses, governments and communities can work together to become more resilient.

Panelists
- Joel Beauvais, Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy, U.S. EPA
- Pam O’Connor, Councilmember, City of Santa Monica, CA
- Harriet Tregoning, Director of the Office of Economic Resilience, U.S. Office of Housing and Urban Development
- Kate Dineen, Director, NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program, New York Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery

Polly Curtice is the Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She talks about our need to change our thinking and incorporate sustainability principles and practices in our thinking and actions. Published on May 22, 2014

Doug Fine is a comedic investigative journalist, best-selling author, and solar-powered goatherder. He's reported from five continents for the Washington Post, Wired, Salon, the New York Times, Outside, NPR, and US News and World Report. A one-time New Yorker, Doug now resides at the Funky Butte Ranch in Silver City, New Mexico. Published on Sep 27, 2013

He talks about our indigenous gene, the I-gene, that connects us to nature, key to awakening this gene is getting outside and spend time connecting to your i-gene in this hurried digital age and live in both worlds.  TEDx ABQ, September 2013.

At no time in Portland's history have so many citizens been affected by new architecture. New buildings --bold, beautiful, middling, or downright ugly-- are rising in every neighborhood of the city. The city has a process --Design Review-- to decide what buildings make the grade. But its most stringent oversight only applies to downtown and few other, innermost districts.

How does design review work? How well is it working? Should it be expanded to other parts of the city? Three prominent design advocates who have overseen the city's review during three distinct eras share their opinions about how to get the best buildings for the city. Panelists: Michael McCullouch, architect, urban designer and developer; Guenevere Millius, President of Parachute Strategies and chair of the Design Commission; John Russell, President of Russell Development Company. Randy Gragg, director of the University of Oregon's John Yeon Center, will moderate the program.Published on May 30, 2014

Award-winning economist Paul Collier shows how we might reconcile our economic and environmental interests.  Plunder - few exploit the many, taking now what belongs to the future. Our obligations to the future is basic principle. Uploaded on May 20, 2010

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 Produced by RSA, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce.

4 Principles to Win the Sustainability 'Game' (conditions of success)

In this video I present the 4 conditions of success that define sustainability at a principle level and that have been peer reviewed and continuously refined over the last 20 years. It builds on the work of Dr Karl-Henrik Robèrt and The Natural Step.

Alexandre Magnin is the creator of this series, Sustainability Illustrated, a channel on YouTube.