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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
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Blessed Unrest
12.20.2009
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Future Perfect: Dreamers, Schemers & Visionaries

Part Three

 

Our environment is in trouble. It's not hard to imagine global catastrophe as problems like climate change and overpopulation take their toll. But there's always hope and in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll introduce you to the visionaries who are making a difference. Like Wangari Maathai, who won a Noble Peace Prize for her extraordinary efforts to plant trees in Kenya. And Geir Haarde, the former President of Iceland, whose country is now running on over eighty percent green energy.

  1. Thomas Friedman on the Future of Green

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    We need a green revolution, and our current crop initiatives are not adding up to such things.

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  2. Jane Goodall on Activism & Primatology

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    Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates and forced people to reconsider what it means to be human. She tells Steve Paulson about her decades of work with chimpanzees.

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  3. DJ Spooky on "Sinfonia Antarctica"

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    Hip hop artist DJ Spooky brought a crew to Antarctica and created Sinfonia Antarctica. He tells us how his audio portrait documents the effects of climate change on the continent.

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  4. Geir Haarde on Iceland's Green Economy

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    It has depended on thermal energy for centuries. Thanks to its hot springs, Iceland is 80 percent independent from fossil fuels.

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  5. Paul Hawken on "Blessed Unrest"

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    Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.

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  6. Wangari Maathai on Reforesting Africa

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    Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She is dedicated to re-foresting Africa and talks with Steve Paulson about some of her Greenbelt Movement projects. Her memoir is called "Unbowed."

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