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Hero for the Planet
Talking with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute argues that the United States can operate on a fourth of the energy it now uses, while still providing the same or better services. This may seem far-fetched, but Lovins has been accused of taking off on flights of fancy before, though time has a remarkable way of proving his assertions correct. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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The Next Generation of Global Health Works
In 1982, ophthalmologist Oliver Foot founded Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, a unique mobile teaching facility housed in a DC-10 jet aircraft. In this audio interview With Globeshakers host Tim Zak, he discusses how his organization brings dedicated eye care professionals to the developing world to restore eyesight through surgery and other treatments. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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The Promise of Biomedical Engineering
Robert Langer has been referred to as "a medical pioneer in the guise of an engineer" who has revolutionized the delivery of drugs and the engineering of human tissue. In this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Langer reveals his tenacious nature and talks about what it takes to persevere in the face of public criticism. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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Investing in Worldwide Social Change
In the early 1990s, Cheryl Dorsey got a fellowship from Echoing Green to launch the Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit that provides basic medical and outreach services to at-risk residents of inner-city Boston neighborhoods. Now president of Echoing Green, Dorsey talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak in an audio interview about the challenge of building on the impressive track record of one of the world's leading investors and supporters of worldwide social change. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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Urban Villages: Art as Social Innovation
Rick Lowe has given new meaning to the phrase "artist-in-residence." This Heinz Award winner and former Loeb fellow at the Harvard School of Design is the founder of Project Row Houses, an organization that merges art and architecture with social activism. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Lowe describes how this experiment in "social sculpture" is redefining the role of art and artists in society. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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Leadership in Global Health Technology Initiative
Ticia Gerber sits at the center of one of the world's important current debates: How do we keep people healthy without having it cost an arm and a leg? At eHealth Initiative and LIGHT, Gerber is working across three continents to bridge the public, private, and social sectors. She talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak in an audio interview about the role of technology in the future of health care and what it means to create a dialogue between the developed and developing world. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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Heinz Award Winner Series
Dean Kamen has literally changed the world by turning breakthrough ideas into practical products. In this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Kamen discusses the power of technology to change society. He also talks about what it takes to persevere in the face of public and professional resistance toward inventions and technology that can actually make people's lives better. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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Partners In Health
Recipient of the 9th Annual Heinz Award for the Human Condition, Paul Farmer is a medical doctor and a professor of anthropology at Harvard's Medical School. He shuttles between Harvard and Haiti, where he maintains a practice at Clinique Bon Saveur, a charity hospital he founded. Farmer talks in this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about the challenges and rewards of providing health care to the poorest of the poor, and the evolving, innovative models for getting drugs to those who need them most. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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Globeshakers
David Bornstein is a leading expert on the global rise of "social entrepreneurism." In this audio interview, Globeshakers host Tim Zak asks how we would know a social entrepreneur if we saw one on the street. More important, why should we care? Who invests in social enterprise and what is at stake for our world if we don't? You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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Globeshakers with Tim Zak
As a technologist, Ethan Zuckerman has spent much time working with the new generation of African entrepreneurs, programmers, organizers, and young people who are hooking up their continent to the web. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Zuckerman explains how these new netizens are changing the way villagers and urban dwellers learn, organize, network, and face the challenges of poverty, AIDS, political strife, and making a living. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Resource: Audio
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