Here Pilar Saborio, Abassador of Costa Rica for the UK, disusses Costa Rica's actions to address climate change and the leadership small countries can provide in combatting global warming

EarthSayer — June 14, 2010 — Introduction by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of the Green Festival, this is a look around the convention floor at the Green Festival Seattle, June 5/6, 2010 showing attendee interest in green products and services and featuring some of the people who represent companies ranging from the Vegetarian Times to the New York Times and the principles of a more sustainable economy and social justice. Co-sponsored by Global Exchange and Green America, this is the premier sustainability and green commerce event in the country and they are held each year in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Sustainability, sustainable development, green commerce

IBMLabs — May 05, 2010 — IBM launches multi-year research effort to model and simulate factors surrounding the health of the individual, community, and the planet. Visit asmarterplanet.com for more information on this and other projects. Objective is better decisions made on understanding of a very complex world actually works, rather than having systems in isolation.

Jacqueline Novogratz brings us a series of insightful stories and unforgettable characters — from women dancing in a Nairobi slum, to unwed mothers starting a bakery, to courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, to entrepreneurs building services for the poor against impossible odds. Her book, The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who has spent her life on a quest to understand global poverty and to find powerful new ways of tackling it.

 October 19, 2009 Acclaimed filmmaker and Internet phenomenon Annie Leonard exposes the often hidden costs of all that we consume and provides a hopeful vision for moving beyond the age of Stuff. (http://www.bioneers.org/annie-leonard) Other of Annie's work is on earthSayers, search "Annie."

John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Together with KPCB's partners, John has backed many of America's best entrepreneurial leaders, including Google and Amazon. Here he talks about his focus as a venture capitalist on recruiting talent and building teams. He makes some clear distinctions between the Internet and Energy market potential, the latter costing more, taking longer and being much more policy intensive.