Bill Becker is the Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) who have been tasked with creating a 100 day action plan that sets the agenda for President Obama focussing on what the administration can do under its own authority in its days in office to combat climate change. Furthermore he speaks of his hope for what Obama and his team can do in combatting climate change, where America is currently as a carbon emitter, what it needs to do in terms of creating a new green economy. You can download the presentation Bill gave at a Tomorrow's Company event here. 

Playing Time: 19:28 (format: mm:ss)

Issue(s): Creating Frameworks , Climate Change , Sustainability , Tomorrow's Green Economy

Region(s): North America

Tag(s): ClimateChange , NewGreenEconomy , Obama , PCAP

Bill Gates makes a insightful speech on the social inequalities that we are surrounded by today, and hoe technology can make a difference to the one billion people in the world who live on less than one dollar a day. According to an article in Time Magazine, governments and non profits play an integral role in helping them, but it is mainly corporations that have the resources and the technology to help in fulfilling social, ethical or environmental goal. This is where his idea of ‘Creative Capitalism’ comes in. The question is then, is it different from what the social business ideal is? Something to think about… 

Issue(s): How to be a Force for Good company , Social Business

Region(s): North America

Tag(s): CreativeCapitalism , SocialBusiness