Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). April 2011.

Open Source Ecology Website is here.

Biggest challenge is bringing sustainability to people and making it relevant to lives of our customers says Director of Plan A, CSR & Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer.  Richard Gillies shares his thoughts on "shwopping" and other opportunities for making sustainability relevant to consumers at BSR Conference 2012: Fast Forward.

Documentary on the Fair Trade movement. Direct by Jamie Moffett.

Interview with Sir Mark Moody Stuart, Foundation for the Global Compact and Member of the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC), on why Integrated Reporting is so vital in today's business and next steps for ensuring its success.

Interview, Beijing January 2011

Bjorn Stigson is president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development.His key message to business people, climate issue is primarily a question of competiveness. Resource constrained, pollution constrained, the ones that can deliver green, clean solutions will be the winners. ABC Radio/Australia.

L. Hunter Lovins is President and founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. Here she discusses the business case for sustainability and the role of entrepreneurs. This is a TEDx San Joaquin event. This images is a link on Amazon to one of her books, The Way Out or visit your local bookstore. Thank you.

America's multi-billion dollar convention industry adopts new sustainability standards in a growing effort to reduce the environmental impact of large meetings and events. Read more here, SPAN magazine, bridging U.S. India Relations.

Adoption of environmental and social sustainability principles increases performance.  An "ESG" (Enterprise Strategy Group) corporate culture creates high performance in the long term: George Serafeim, Assistant Professor of Business Management, Harvard Business School discusses the results of research presented in the white paper "The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance", which he co-authored with Professor Robert G. Eccles (Harvard Business School) and Prof. Ioannis Ioannou (London Business School). Courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre.

Download Working Paper here.

TED takes a look at health and medicine with a conference each year. The 2013 TEDMed conference is April 16-19 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Their YouTube channel features nearly 200 videos from previous conferences.