Big Business is often blamed for the environmental and social ills that we are faced with today. But these speakers suggest that a business with a conscience can also provide solutions to the world’s biggest problems.

Melinda Gates says foundations and nonprofits can learn important lessons from big business — to turn honorable intentions into widespread impact.
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Ray Anderson is a businessman and a recovering “plunderer.” Now that he has seen the light, he says that business and industry should lead the charge in preserving the earth and its peoples by adopting a “take nothing, do no harm” mentality.
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Jeff Skoll’s film production company Participant Productions (producers of Waiting for ‘Superman’ has a new take on Hollywood – his films promote best practices and ideas for environmental sustainability and social impact.
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John Doerr proclaims that panic is now our appropriate response to a world in jeopardy: companies and individuals together must use this panic, and their overwhelming power to save the world.
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Curator of this playlist: Rachel Tobias