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China's capitalist revolution Drugs, uses & abuses Ethical Markets. 5 Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy Listening to America with Bill Moyers Local News (New York, N.Y.) Standard deviants core curriculum State of the planet The Wide Angle Collection: Human Stories, Global IssuesSummary: What forms the bedrock of America's wealth? Home ownership? Small businesses? Wall Street? This program lays out an entirely different economic conception, pointing to the vast amount of unpaid labor and services that keep the rest of society afloat. Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations, analyzes the significance of volunteer work, medical support provided by family members, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program with Bill Moyers focuses on what we can do to repair the U.S. economy. A business executive explains why his company closed its factories in the U.S. and moved manufacturing operations to Mexico. Among those who discuss potential solutions to problems facing the American economy are Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect; Henry Nau, author of The Myth of America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this program, Hazel Henderson and Louis Bohtlingk, author of Dare to Care, discuss the growth of the new sharing economy, including open source volunteerism, crowdfunding, and local currencies. People can overcome the domination of money over their lives by participating in new opportunities for sharing services, exchanging community forms of wealth, and fostering local relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2013
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Summary: In segment one of this program, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman, Cisco Systems' John Chambers, and other top Cisco executives discuss how the computer network infrastructure giant, whose routers are the brains of the Internet, uses Internet technology to enhance its own operations and growth. In segment two, correspondent Ray Suarez talks with Jay Whitehead, CEO of EmployeeService.com; labor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Transactions that use "time dollars," or currency offered and consumed in the form of services, have become more than just a novelty. This program looks at organized systems known as time banks, through which thousands of people-many of whom would likely subsist on charity or government aid in the traditional cash economy-now maintain rewarding and productive lives. Taking a global approach,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Months after his arrival, WCNC-TV news director Keith Connors feels he has assembled a winning team, but beneath the surface the newsroom family is riven by tensions. Promotions and demotions cause the reporters to question their director's motives. One reporter openly rebels after having to cover a story he felt was beneath him. Connors experiences the isolation of leadership's tough decisions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In response to pressure from the station management for higher ratings, WCNC-TV news gets a reformatted program, a new anchor, and a new emphasis on breaking stories, especially in crime coverage. Once again, ethical conflicts arise as news director Keith Connors and his reporters try to determine how much information regarding an ongoing murder case they can air without jeopardizing the police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The banking industry is turning Charlotte, North Carolina, into a boomtown; for WCNC-TV news, the city's growth brings its share of problems. Veteran reporter Bea Thompson became the city's first black female TV news journalist 22 years ago. Now on the verge of being fired, she touches off a protest that escalates into picketing and boycotts. News director Keith Connors and general manager Rick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Reagan Press Conference. He answers a question about the economy and his economic plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982
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Summary: When news director Keith Connors goes home to Ashtabula, Ohio, for Christmas, he is struck by the contrast with booming Charlotte and realizes why he left to cover news in other people's communities. His former reporter, Bea Thompson, made the opposite bargain, forsaking opportunities elsewhere to serve the city in which she grew up. After Connors orchestrates his news team's coverage of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In December 2001, the Argentine government defaulted on
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When a wave of bomb threats hits Charlotte's schools, newly hired WCNC-TV news director Keith Connors reins in his reporters while the competition rushes to air with misinformation. Connors loses the big story but hopes he is building viewer trust. The station confronts a different ratings dilemma when several white families sue to overturn the city's landmark 1971 school busing plan. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Leonard Nimoy narrates this wide-ranging documentary on hydrogen-based energy solutions in the United States and around the world-including systems that are fully operational as well as those currently in development. Visiting China, Germany, Iceland, and other countries, the program examines the PEM fuel cell and equipment that incorporates fuel cell technology, avoiding fossil fuel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: At the current rate of resource depletion, humankind stands to lose fully half of Earth's remaining species over the next 100 years. At this crucial point in world history, a choice must be made: will coming generations inhabit a healthy planet or, quite possibly, a dying one? In this program, David Attenborough searches for solutions to this impending eco-disaster. The research of demographer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Given the vitality of China's economy today, it is difficult to imagine that Deng Xiaoping's early reforms met any resistance-but they did. This program examines Deng's transformation from a Maoist functionary into the leader who broke from pure Communism and, despite the highest of stakes, reinvented his country. Helping viewers understand Deng's creation of China's Special Economic Zones, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: As more and more companies view low-income Americans as opportunities for profit, the "poverty business" is taking off. In this program, Bill Moyers Journal and Expose: America's Investigative Reports follow a team of BusinessWeek reporters as they track corporate practices that some say are exploiting the working poor. Bill Moyers then talks with economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: It's easy to talk about environmental stewardship, but quite another matter to practice it. This compilation of 12 ABC News stories shows how governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are taking concrete, eco-friendly action. Each engaging example of "going green" offers an opportunity for class discussion, further study, and perhaps even genuine change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In part one of this program, filmed prior to the foundering of the Internet economy, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman examines the methodology of Amazon.com's founder Jeffrey Bezos and Drugstore.com's CEO Peter Neupert, who faced stiffening retail and online competition by innovatively adapting their business plans. In part two, correspondent Margaret Warner analyzes the meteoric rise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this program, stoichiometry goes swimming. The topics of molarity, dilution, acid/base reactions, titration, limiting reagents, and yield-theoretical, actual, and percent-are all carefully examined. Practical problems involving the Molarity Equation give the program a quantitative analysis flavor, while "Cooking with Professor Rowley" and other skits present key stoichiometric concepts with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: While many nations and communities benefit from the fast track to globalization, others are in danger of being left behind. This program explores concepts embodied in the mantra, "Think globally, act locally," focusing on businesses and organizations that help to revitalize isolated and disadvantaged areas, thereby expanding access to the wider economy. Judy Wicks, founder of Philadelphia's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Just as the industrial revolution changed the way people work, so has the rise of digital technology-leading to the radical reorganization of business models and workplaces, as well as the geographical redistribution of labor and services. This program inquires into 21st-century work paradigms, presenting commentary from scholars and business leaders about what it means to be an employee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: There are fortunes to be made in China today-but fortune-seekers from overseas face immense challenges. This program offers three engaging business case studies, each following a Western entrepreneur who grapples with Chinese business practices and culture. Tony Caldera's cushion business has been ruined by Chinese imports, but he hopes for a turnaround by building a factory here. Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this program, noted correspondent Paul Solman inquires into how Japan's star economy fizzled out-and why America deceived itself regarding Japan Inc. Seth Sulkin, President of Pacifica Corporation; Professor Yoshi Tsurumi; and investment banker Eugene Dattle present crony capitalism, flawed financial institutions, a dearth of skilled public regulation, and Yakuza involvement as factors that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A 150-pound bag of coffee beans might earn a farmer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005