Debate: Food – Who Pays the Price? (TVE, BBC World, IFAD)
Food – Who Pays the Price? (October 2008) raises important questions about who produces the food we eat and how.
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Development in Bad Waters (AMRF)
A 60-minutes video documentary of an action research programme on drinking water and public health in Bangladesh, in collaboration with
Read moreOpen source hardware (Marcin Jakubowski)
Some questions that came up while watching this: Could open source hardware help achieve a greater global distribution of the
Read moreThe iPhone Economy (New York Times)
Apple’s iPhone is a model of American ingenuity, but most of its components are manufactured somewhere else. The decline of
Read moreInfinite growth in a finite world: risk or certainty? (John Thackara)
2012 PopTech talk by social critic John Thackara, where he argues that the current human paradigm of endless growth is obviously unsustainable,
Read moreIs water still running? (Ned Breslin)
Tired of seeing broken hand pumps and taps litter Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Breslin sees these as signs of
Read moreThe Largest Mass Poisoning in History (AMRF)
In Bangladesh, millions of rural poor are currently drinking water that is contaminated with high levels of arsenic. Although the
Read moreReading Marx’s Capital Vol I & II (David Harvey)
Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I (13 video lectures) Reading Marx’s Capital Vol II (12 video lectures)
Read moreSymposium on Limits to Growth (Club of Rome and Smithsonian Institution)
A 9 hours symposium on the Limits to Growth study. The Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution hosted a
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