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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Interview with Jigme Thinley, the first democratically elected prime minister of Bhutan. While in office the Thinley government was dedicated to Gross National Happiness (GNH), an idea that was born in the early 1970s when Bhutan's fourth King, an absolute monarch, drew international attention by commenting that "gross national happiness" was more important than gross national product. His government steadfastly pursued that objective for the next...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Interview with Ron Colman, the founder and executive director of Genuine Progress Index Atlantic, a non-profit research group that has constructed an index of wellbeing and sustainable development for Nova Scotia, Canada. The GPI is a response to narrow conventional measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which record ecological destruction and illness as economically positive. Since 1997 his organization has authored and co-authored nearly 100...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Interview with Ronald Colman, Executive Director of Genuine Progress Index Atlantic, a non-profit research group that has constructed an index of wellbeing and sustainable development using Canada's province of Nova Scotia as its test-bed. GPI Atlantic is one of the world's most comprehensive attempts to supply a GPI to a government to guide its legislative decisions, using a wide range of social, economic, and environmental indicators that have been...
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Language
English
Description
The Big Picture of Business, offers a creative approach to strategy development and planning for companies in today's turbulent business environment that prepares them for an unknowable tomorrow.
Each year, one-third of the U.S. Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and other high costs caused by companies that failed to take proper actions. Look no further than the cost of the current financial crisis for an example. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
With clear, simple prose, and poetic turns of phrase, this inspirational collection of quotations reflects the unique country of Bhutan and its universal embrace of compassion, understanding, and kindness. Some of the quotes are also a bit quirky and funny-why not? After all, this remarkable little kingdom in the Eastern Himalayas just may hold the secret to lifelong happiness. Renowned for their government edict that "gross national happiness is...
Author
Language
English
Description
To many people, economics is as confusing as physics. Just as
we use physics every day even if we don't know its technical
aspects, we all use economics on a daily basis even if we don't
know its technical aspects. Yet, unlike physics, introductory
Economics is not as difficult as it might appear at first.
However, it is true that economists speak a different "language"
in the sense that we often use terms that are not common in
everyday conversation.
For...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An original half-hour documentary film, using footage of Bhutan shot by Silver Donald Cameron and by Nova Scotia film-maker Kent Martin in 2009. The film focuses on the country's unique and inspiring pursuit of Gross National Happiness as a vision for development, which is in stark contrast to the rest of the world's reliance on Gross Domestic Product.
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"In Storms, see what happens when huge masses of air collide. Destructive or not, storms benefit us. The tropical regions of the Earth would be too hot to inhabit--and the subpolar regions too cold -- if we didn't have hurricanes and typhoons to distribute the Earth's heat so efficiently"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"Join Bill as he explores the ... world of caves! In Caves, you never know what kind of living things you'll run into. Surviving in complete darkness requires an array of natural adaptations. Caves have their own unique forms of life -- it's a whole different world where the sun doesn't shine"--Container.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Combined technology spending in today's global economy now tops {dollar}4.2 trillion dollars, a number larger than the gross domestic product of most nations. This rising global "Technology Economy" is most certainly a driving force in business today. In this program, IT benchmarking expert, Dr. Howard Rubin, introduces us to "Technology Economics," and explains how by "recognizing, mapping and understanding the interaction of technology investment...
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Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"Follow Bill Nye in Forests, when he goes swinging through the trees in Washington, Florida, Texas, and California, to bring viewers close to the tallest and possibly oldest living things in the world. Examine a real forest fire to see how it benefits a forest's ecosystem"--Container.
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