Why Life Matters - Morrison, Jane Gray

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Résumé :
Part One: Nature & Human Economics.-1)Technology, Business and Nature: An Economic Primer on Winners and Losers.- 2) Women, Wall Street and Mitigating Climate Change: The Critical Importance of WOCAN.- 3) The New Business of Business: Evolution of Culture and the Survival of Humankind.-4) Wall Street After Rio: A Discussion With Calvert Investments' Senior Sustainability Research Analyst, Ms. Ellen Kennedy.- 5) Investing in the End-Game: An Earth Day Post-Mortem.- 6) Just When You Thought You Could Bank On It.- Part Two: The Carbon-Negative Ideal.- 7) Super Grid.- 8) Ecuador's Imperiled Paradise: One of the World's Most Important, If Least Known Battles - A Conversation with Dr. Ivonne Baki.- 9) Native American Tribes Get a Seat at the Climate Table.- 10) Climate Shock: UC-Berkeley Scientist Dr. John Harte Puts the World On Notice.- Part Three: Human Health and a Living Earth.- 11) Occupy Your Diet: A Discussion About Food, Health and Kindness With Dr. Neal Barnard.- 12) Eating You Alive: Environmental Cancer.- 13) Food That Might Protect Your Brain and Save Your Life: A Discussion About the Ecology of Alzheimers With Dr. Neal Barnard.- 14) Biological Shock-Treatment: A Discussion With 'Deadly Monopolies' Author Harriet A. Washington.- 15) Bioeconomics: A New National Blueprint.- Part Four: Ecology and the Human Population Explosion.- 16) Six Billion or Fifteen Billion People: A Discussion With Environmental Scientist Leon Kolankiewicz.- 17) A King's Speech That Could Help Save The World: A Discussion With UC-Berkeley's Dr. Malcolm Potts.- 18) Planet Under Siege: Family Planning Critics Soon to See Global Population Reach 7,000,000,000.- 19) China's Demographic and Ecological Conundrum.- Part Five: Ecological Heroes.- 20) One Woman's Remarkable Quest to Save Africa's White Lion.-21) A Discussion With UNOPS Luminary Ms. Maria-Noel Vaeza.- 22) Down To Earth: The World According to Ted Turner.- 23) How the Life of a Chipmunk in Michigan Came to Save Elephants and a Million Acres in Cambodia.- 24) Helen Clark: UNDP's Pragmatic Visionary.- 25) A Jain Leader Addresses the World.- 26) A Discussion With Jane Goodall.- Part Six: The State of the World.- 27) China Declares Global State of Emergency: An Urgent Telegram from Taihu.- 28) Japan's Tragedy: Global Ecological Uncertainty.- 29) Before the Fall: Syria's Ecosystems.- 30) Sir Simon Jenkins, England's National Trust, and the Future of Conservation in Great Britain.- 31) Extinction: Poachers Test the Right to Life.- Part Seven: Animal Rights.- 32) Compassionate Conservation: A Discussion From the Frontlines with Dr. Marc Bekoff.- 33) Animal Rights in China.- 35) Why Insects Sing: A Discussion With David Rothenberg.- 36) Protecting Bambi With Drones: PETA's Ingrid Newkirk on Hunters, Horsemeat and More.- Part Eight: Why Your Neighbor Is Important: New Strategies for a Bright Future.- 37) The Heart of Education: A Discussion With Zoe Weil.- 38) Journey to the Center of the World: An Interview With Dr. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian.- 39) How A Single National Park Might Help Transform a Nation: Haiti's Pic Macaya.- 40) Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises.- 41) The Future of Life on Earth.- 42) On Parrots, Eagles and Fighting Species Extinction.- Part Nine: Ecological Paradise?.- 43) An Ecological Paradise in Southern India: A Discussion About the Todas With Dr. Tarun Chhabra.- 44) J. P. Morgan, Edward Curtis and Christopher Cardozo: An Inspired Collaboration.- 45) A New Natural History Blueprint for Universities: A Discussion With Graham Arader.- 46) God's Country: TheNew Zealand Factor.- 47) New Territories: Artist Astrid Preston Celebrates the Earth in a Landmark Nature Exhib...