2007.04.27-Building Democracy: Challenging Corporate Power
Consumer advocate, lawyer, and author Ralph Nader offers his perspective on?keeping corporate power in check?to?foster?a healthy democracy.
2001: Finding Our Way in the (New) Real World
Recollection, reflection, experience, life after college, path, choices, careers, family life, decisions, graduation, job, work, children, community, faith, employment, goals, living, class, reunion, alumni, alumnus, marriage, spouse, aspiration, universi
Is Global Warming Real? Climate Change and Our Energy Future
ocean, environment, greenhouse, gas, fossil, fuel, carbon, soil, temperature, polar amplification, melt, ice, natural variability, bjorn lomborg, science, pollution, Antarctica, Greenland, oxide, emission, earth, planet, hydrogen, snow, atmosphe
Reflections on Stanford in Challenging Times: A Conversation with Dick Lyman
clark kerr, bart, cal train, Washington university, history, bob sears, teach in, Vietnam, winds of freedom, war, david harris, sit in, military, service, exam, Hubert humphrey, race, discrimination, bob rosensweig, black, student, Hispanic, faculty, bruc
6. California Energy and Climate: Implementation of AB32 and SB1368 in Real Time
Science, government, legislation, bill, ethics, energy efficiency, environment, global warming, pollution, emission target, income distribution, electricity, utility, power investment, life cycle carbon, coal, climate control, natural gas, fossil fuel, ga
1. When the Rubber Hits the Road: The Real Story on Fuel Economy (January 7, 2009)
science, economics, engineering, environment, global warming, energy, climate change, policy, technology, research, education, international issues, oil, fuel emissions, carbon, transportation, congestion, car, mileage, automobile, vehicle, bus transit, A
2. Demystifying and De-Jargoning the Smart Grid: What's Hype, What's Real, and Where's the Value? (J
energy efficiency, energy policy, grid, renewable energy, smart grid
Real Work with Real People: Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom
art history, creative, history, politics, drama, geography, humanities, music, modern dance, public affairs, movement, performance, video, film, media, train, motion landscape, buffalo, native American tribe,
How to thrive in challenging times
Can the financial system, as we know it, continue? Over the coming decade, how is the political and economic framework of economic policy likely to change, and how is this likely to impact on business and industry?
Challenging the paradigm of materialism - Jay Lakhani
Jay Lakhani, a Theoretical Physicist, explores the findings at the cutting edge of modern Physics and how they relate to the broader ideas of spirituality at the heart of Hindu tradition.
The Campaign for Real Language
Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.
Marianne Hanson - Challenging the myth that we need nuclear weapons - Nuclear disarmament forum
Challenging the myth that we need nuclear weapons
Speaker: Marianne Hanson
Reader in International Relations, University of Queensland
Who will stop nuclear next use? A public forum on nuclear disarmament organised by the Australia-Japan Civil Society Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament, Nautilus Institute.
The possession of nuclear weapons does not make a state secure.
A human tendancy towards inertia. It is easier to do nothing than to take real steps to make change. A sense of complancy
Lecture 6: Hydraulic Engineering - How We Use Hydraulics to Solve Real Life Engineering Problems
Dr Jane Smallman on "Hydraulic Engineering - How We Use Hydraulics to Solve Real Life Engineering Problems". Hydraulics is used extensively to provide solutions to engineering problems. In this presentation the focus was on civil and environmental engineering projects in the maritime sector. A number of illustrations were given of the way in which research is developed into tools that are used to solve practical problems.
China Lecture Series: "China's Real Energy Crisis"
Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edward S. Steinfeld specializes in the political economy of reform in socialist and post-socialist systems. His book, Forging Reform in China (Cambridge University Press, 1998), explores the process of state enterprise restructuring in China and attempts to illuminate the institutional drivers of economic behavior in the Chinese system.
29/5: How to Thrive in Challenging Times
Can the financial system as we know it continue? Alumni Weekend - How to Thrive in Challenging Times 2 - 5pm, Saturday 20 June 2009
13/7: How to thrive in challenging times
Can the financial system, as we know it, continue? Over the coming decade, how is the political and economic framework of economic policy likely to change, and how is this likely to impact on business and industry?
The Campaign for Real Language
Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.
Challenging Macroeconomics
In part 6, our experts examine new models for monetary and fiscal policy, global financial markets and a world economy characterised by global imbalances.
Lecture 6: Hydraulic Engineering - How We Use Hydraulics to Solve Real Life Engineering Problems
Dr Jane Smallman on "Hydraulic Engineering - How We Use Hydraulics to Solve Real Life Engineering Problems". Hydraulics is used extensively to provide solutions to engineering problems. In this presentation the focus was on civil and environmental engineering projects in the maritime sector. A number of illustrations were given of the way in which research is developed into tools that are used to solve practical problems.
Podcasting People: Stories and Experiences from real life podcasters
Guests and delegates of the 2009 Beyond Walls conference share their stories and experiences of podcasting and offer tips to one another.
