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Worldview

Sustainable Development

The UN's 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development aimed to fight poverty and protect the environment. Worldview devoted a series of programs to issues concerning development.

On this page, you'll find:

  • Audio of the programs in this series
  • Previously aired interviews
  • Outside links concerning sustainable development
Link to UN Summit

 
Listen to Programs in This Series
  August 26, 2002
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link for audio Hopes for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
Netin Desai — Secretary General of the WSSD
link for audio Sustainable Development
Amory Lovins — Chief Executive Officer of the Rocky Mountain Institute, author of Natural Capitalism
 

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  August 27, 2002
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link for audio Vietnam: Environmental consequences of war
 Barry Weisberg, Director — Violence Prevention and Peace Promotion Strategy
link for audio Unsustainable development in Southeast Asia?
 James David Fahn — journalist and author of the forthcoming A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom
 

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  August 28, 2002
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link for audio Year of the mountain
Martin Price — Director of the Center for Mountain Studies at Perth College in Scotland
  Iceland: becoming a hydrogen-economy
photo of Kárahnjúkar mountains
 
Iceland's Kárahnjúkar mountains
link for audio Bragi Arnason — Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iceland
Arni Finnsson — Chairman of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association
link for audio Iceland: impact of planned Kárahnjúkar dam
 Arni Finnsson — Chairman of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association
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  August 29, 2002
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link for audio Opening of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Thabo Mbeki — South African President
link for audio Computers and solar power in Ghana
Dr. Osei Darkwa — GhaCLAD 2002 Technology Camp Initiator, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Jane Addams College of Social Work
link for audio Local sustainable development initiatives in Africa
Sam Chimbuya — Director of African Division of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
link for audio Sustainable transport: Bikes in Africa and beyond
Paul Steely White — Africa Regional Director, Bicycle Accessibility Program, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy
 

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  August 30, 2002
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link for audio U.S. position at the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Steve Sawyer — International Climate Policy Advisor for Greenpeace
link for audio Health and social development in India
Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan — physician, long time worker for public health and social development, special investigator to the Karnataka Lok Ayukta, a position created to combat corruption in the Karnataka public health system
link for audio Local governance in India
Rangaswamy Elango — President of Kuthambakkam village of Thiruvallur, founder of Trust for Village Self Governance
 

Serve India Forum
August 31 - September 2 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
more information at http://www.serveindiaforum.net
or by calling Rachna Prasad, (773) 929 1298
  September 3, 2002
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link for audio Sun ovens: using solar power to cook the world’s food
Paul Munsen — Sun Ovens International
 
Jerome McDonnell with Paul Munsen
 Cookies in the Sun Oven
Jerome McDonnell with
Paul Munsen
   Cookies in the Sun Oven
link for audio Wind power
Arthouros Zervos — President of the European Wind Energy Association
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  September 4, 2002
link for audio Colin Powell speaks at World Conference on Sustainable Development
link for audio Update/Critique of summit outcome
Steve Sawyer, International Climate Policy Advisor for Greenpeace
link for audio Jailing Brazilian environmentalists
James Cavallaro, Executive Director, Global Justice Center
 

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Additional Audio
Previously aired interviews concerning sustainable development
link for audio Chicago a No-Show at WSSD
Jody Becker — Chicago Public Radio Correspondent
link for audio Documenting the impact of humans on Earth
Lester Brown — Founder, president and senior researcher of the Earth Policy Institute
link for audio

UN Conference on Sustainable Development Preview
Nitin Desai — United Nations Secretary General of the Johannesburg Summit and Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
aired August 6, 2002
link for audio Greener Capitalism?
Amory Lovins — founder and co-CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute
aired October 16, 2000
   
Outside Links
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