• Sustainability: A History, by Jeremy L. Cardonna

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hho1h7OR6l8

    Duration: 5:29

    A well-presented and accessible account of the history of the idea, which suggests pre-industrial origins of the word in European languages which has subsequently taken on wider meanings and greater urgency because of the evident unsustainability of industrial capitalism.

  • Gro Harlem Brundtland: I’m A Lucky Person

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_6cL71L870

    Duration: 4:49

    In this clip Gro Harlem Brundtland looks back on a rather extraordinary life in which she became Norway’s first female prime minister and the lead author of a UN report which added substance and urgency to previously abstract notions of sustainability.

  • Gro Harlem Brundtland: Interview part 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTw3kyQkyk

    Duration: 1:11

    In this 2007 interview, Gro Harlem Brundland reflects on the impact of the 1987 report—Our Common Future—which is so closely associated with her name.

  • Gro Harlem Brundtland

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkn0Qk2KkE

    Duration: 2:38

    In this short 2009 clip United State Secretary of State Hilary Clinton praises the lifetime contribution made by Gro Harlem Brundtland.

  • Reflecting on Rio: Looking Back to 1992

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68WECTt_DfU

    Duration: 3:22 

    Twenty years after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit some of the prominent players in that event reflect on what was achieved and what its legacy has been.

  • Severn Cullis-Suzuki Returns to Rio 20 Years after Stopping the World

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNICantjJo

    Duration: 10:58

    In 1992, 12-year-old Severn Cullis-Suzuki – daughter of Canadian writer Tara Elizabeth Cullis and environmentalist David Suzuki – caught world attention for a heart-felt speech delivered at the Rio Earth Summit in which she said that she was deeply concerned for her own future. Twenty years later she returned for Rio+20 to say that she now wanted to speak about the concern she feels for her children’s future.

  • Tim Jackson: An Economic Reality Check

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsp_EdO2Xk

    Duration: 24:31

    A well-presented TED talk by the leading international ecological economist Tim Jackson explaining why the world cannot continue with existing trends in economic growth and development. An accessible account of the blind spots in global economic systems.