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| + | [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/social_issues/social_ent/ PBS News Hour] has a series on thos topic. For example, Oct. 28, 2009 Fred de Sam Lazaro takes a look at how one organization in the Southeast Asian island of Borneo is trading health care for rainforest preservation. | ||
[http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10174 Charlie Rose] is an excellent PBS interview series. Here, for example, he discusses foreign aid and development with Peter Singer, author of "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" as well as social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jacqueline_novogratz_on_an_escape_from_poverty.html (additional TEDtalk video by her)] and aid critic and Africa scholar Dambisa Moyo. | [http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10174 Charlie Rose] is an excellent PBS interview series. Here, for example, he discusses foreign aid and development with Peter Singer, author of "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" as well as social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jacqueline_novogratz_on_an_escape_from_poverty.html (additional TEDtalk video by her)] and aid critic and Africa scholar Dambisa Moyo. | ||
Revision as of 17:46, 30 October 2009
This theme explores the actions of people who, knowing full well the enormity of the challenges, still choose to act--often with audacity, creativity, and success. It is instructive to know what has worked (and not) in the past, so some history of previous waves of environmental action is included. Currently, a very promising approach, social entrepreneur, is having a great deal of success by using the very market forces that have historically been so destructive to improve the environment for people and other species. This also involves using the power of six degree social networks and digital technology.
See also eco-heroes
Histories of Environmental Movement
Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (1993) Review of Gottlieb book that tells alternative history of the environmental movement.
American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990 / edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig. Published Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis, c1992 (provides a succinct conventional overview of U.S. environmental movement in introductory chapter)
Philip Shabecoff, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Island Press; Revised Edition, 2003
California Environmental History bibliography
US Environmental History bibliography
One of the early debates about the environment was between Preservationists such as John Muir and Conservationists such as Gifford Pinchot is explored in the video The Wilderness Idea, which can be found at McHenry Library (ask for VT2197) Discussion of the evolution of the term "conservation"
Social Entrepreneurs
See also Social Entrepreneur page
Social entrepreneurship is a new concept, but it weaves together strands that have been around for a long time. It's about forging social relationships and organizing people, but also attempts to work with the market and leverages the power of the Internet. See brilliant video explaining one aspect of this, Web 2.0 issues such as tagging.
Tactics of Hope video offers a brief overview.
Anita Roddick, social entrepreneur, founder of The Body Shop, one of the first and most successful socially conscious businesses.
The Skoll Foundation is dedicated to fostering social entrepreneurs. Good resources
Skoll Foundation definition and discussion
An overview/editorial by a student
Social Entrepreneur Corps has summer internships in Central America video
Academic Earth has video lectures from first rate universities on entrepreneurship, some with social aspects. Larry Brilliant on social entrepreneurs. Guy Kawasaki (Apple).
Additional Organizations
Wiser Earth map of socially conscious organizations, many with an social entrepreneur approach.
http://www.ashoka.org/ Here's a list/links to Fellows working in environment.
Video:
PBS News Hour has a series on thos topic. For example, Oct. 28, 2009 Fred de Sam Lazaro takes a look at how one organization in the Southeast Asian island of Borneo is trading health care for rainforest preservation.
Charlie Rose is an excellent PBS interview series. Here, for example, he discusses foreign aid and development with Peter Singer, author of "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" as well as social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz (additional TEDtalk video by her) and aid critic and Africa scholar Dambisa Moyo.
Academic Earth has video lectures from first rate universities on entrepreneurship, some with social aspects. Larry Brilliant on social entrepreneurs. Guy Kawasaki (Apple).
UCTV has videos about entrepreneurship (not necessarily social).
Short interviews with a variety of folks working on various issues.
The New Heroes (ucsc owns: DVD2816)
sample: Nick Moon & Martin Fisher
Project: ApproTEC (Appropriate Technology for Enterprise Creation)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya, offices in Tanzania, Mali and San Francisco, Calif.
Nick Moon and Martin Fisher founded ApproTEC out of their belief that poor people don't need handouts, they need concrete opportunities to use their skills and initiative. ApproTEC provides these opportunities by specially designing and manufacturing tools that help people work more productively, allowing them to break the cycle of poverty.
Books
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein
UCSC People
Economist Robert Fairlie has written about entrepreneurship.
| Course Themes |
| Ecological and Social Utopias |
| Literature, Art, and the Environment |
| Environmental Science and Skeptical Challenges |
| Activism and Entrepreneurship |
