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Very inspiring speech by the president of Schumacher Collage which is a holistic education school focus on ecological and spiritual issues. "SOIL, SOUL AND SOCIETY" Satish Kumar introduces the trinity that captures the essence of an eco-philosophy that cares about all life.

Théo Bondolfi speaks about a solution for todays human challenges : the awareness of netizenship, alias "responsible behaviour at digital age". He explains the socio-technical properties of todays digital environments, and how we can apply them in our everyday life, with coopetitive behaviours for example. He shares his vision of a society were digitally-supported cooperation becomes the rule, simply due to the necessity of respecting these natural digital properties to survive socially and economically. He connects netizenship with his vision of new cities built from scratch, inspired by netizenship culture, through wiki-culture and free licensing, that internauts can also find in TED and TEDx culture with its thousands of contributors worldwide.

This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor (http://www.julietschor.org).

"The documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person."

"Green rooftops have many benefits in society; they reduce stormwater runoff, keep a building cool in the summer, warm in the water and are simply absolutely beautiful! "