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According to environmental justice advocate Majora Carter, getting serious about job creation in NYC will mean funneling money toward green manufacturing and clean tech industries, not professional sports.
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Since her famous TED talk, Majora Carter has found that many in the business community want to do well by doing good.
What’s a green collar job? Anything that has a positive impact on the environment, Carter says.
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In the South Bronx, environmental degradation has led to high rates of asthma, diabetes and learning disabilities, Carter says.
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Many in Carter’s community once lived in synch with nature.
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Carter built the first waterfront park her community has had in over sixty years.
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How Majora Carter cleaned up the South Bronx.
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Judge Posner believes that as a social good, privacy is overrated because it means people are able to conceal things.
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Judge Posner talks about why he is pessimistic about destructive technologies that continue to be developed.
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Judge Posner talks about the “Rise of knowledge.”
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Posner first talks about the challenge of constitutional interpretation and how he believes that the entire body of constitutional law was created with free interpretation of the Constitution.
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Buy products produced by companies with a vision, says Moriarty
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Surfrider CEO Jim Moriarty explains the green business revolution.
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Jim Moriarty cites Australia as the shape of things to come.
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We’re not past a tipping point, but the threat is certainly there.
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Every the countries that didn’t have a part in creating the mess, have to be going green.
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They certainly make strange bedfellows, Moriarty says.
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Jim Moriarty talks about the greening of Silicon Valley.