Water management
Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus
How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

12:33

How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing projects and retained earnings, bank borrowings against the corporate balance sheet, or project finance specifically loaned against the capacity of that project. The chapter also details the various analyses and assessments done by companies technical, social, governmental, and financial. Sir Mark Moody Stuart stresses that…

How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project
The Sustainable Development Goals
Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus

12:03

Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus

In this chapter, William Vendley finds the points of consensus between religious traditions, and shows how religious communities are well-positioned in terms of both spirituality and infrastructure to play a role in sustainable development.

Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus
The Role of Universities and SDSN
The Sustainable Development Goals

24:10

The Sustainable Development Goals

This lecture looks at the 40 year history of sustainable development on the international stage and the development of the SDGs from past failures of attempts to mitigate climate change, and the destruction of biodiversity, and protect against desertification.

The Sustainable Development Goals
Cities as Centers of Cultural and Social Transformation
The Role of Universities and SDSN

10:57

The Role of Universities and SDSN

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the role of universities in contributing to global partnerships for achieving the SDGs. He explains the history and formation of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, as well as its work as a global framework of universities.

The Role of Universities and SDSN
Introducing Sustainable Development
Cities as Centers of Cultural and Social Transformation

08:29

Cities as Centers of Cultural and Social Transformation

Many people see cities as primary places of economic activity, but cities are also sites of social, cultural, and religious relevance. Examples of cities and their roles are given in their historical and cultural contexts. Cities are the center where intellectuals, artists, musicians, revolutionaries and others congregate, as well as where power and inequality is often seen. This is all explored in this chapter using historical examples.

Cities as Centers of Cultural and Social Transformation
Thinking about Alternatives
Introducing Sustainable Development

12:24

Introducing Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development.

Introducing Sustainable Development
Getting to Know the SDGs
Thinking about Alternatives

07:36

Thinking about Alternatives

In the first video of his series Freedom Now: The Economic and Political Alternative, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that traditional progressive politics do not go far enough in their reimagining of the status quo, and sets the stage for his vision of a truly progressive alternative.

Thinking about Alternatives
Water management
Getting to Know the SDGs

11:52

Getting to Know the SDGs

An introduction to the course Transforming Our World: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Jeffrey Sachs profiles the history of the sustainable development agenda, from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to the creation and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The chapter provides a brief overview of what each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are and how to achieve their associated 169 targets.

Getting to Know the SDGs
How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project
Water management

13:47

Water management

This chapter looks at water’s role in sustainable agriculture intensification focusing on three main ideas: how water is used globally in food production and agriculture, climate and water sensitivity, and the stresses of water systems globally as relate to agriculture. ‘Green water’ refers to water that is used in agriculture from rainfall, while ‘blue water’ comes from irrigation or surface water sources. Rain-fed agriculture accounts for 80% of agriculture…

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