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Timberland CEO Jeff Swartz: Action in Service to the Planet and Its Citizens
October 29, 2010
Jeff Swartz president and CEO, Timberland Company [homepage]

Jeff Swartz is the rare top executive who sees profitability and “doing good” as inextricably linked. The Timberland Company, a world-wide manufacturer and retailer of outdoors wear, may be just as heralded for its commitment to social and environmental causes and strong focus on the betterment of its employees, as its popular and profitable footwear and apparel.

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Eco Innovations: Small Sparks, Big Impact
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This Carnegie Council panel asks: How do sustainable innovations make it to market? Three very different inventors talk about their creative process, how their inventions have had a social impact, and what a more sustainable society might look like.
Lobsters and Their Kids on the Move in the Gulf of Maine
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Do lobsters migrate like many birds and whales? Studies of egg-bearing lobsters indicate seasonal movement patterns that may serve to expose eggs to optimal water temperatures over their 9-to-12 month incubation period.
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Randi Rotjan, a coral ecologist at the New England Aquarium in Boston, shares stories from her time spent studying coral reefs.
Tracking the Great White Shark
Greg Skomal
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Dr. Greg Skomal discusses the process of tagging several great whites off of Chatham in the summer of 2009 in order to track their migratory patterns. Several months later those tags returned valuable information. To Dr.
Confronting Corruption & Ethics in Emerging Markets
William O'Rourke Jr.
00:26:59
Is it possible to grow a company to $1 billion in revenue in Russia without giving a single bribe? In this interactive workshop with high-level professionals, Alcoa's Bill O'Rourke shares how he navigated the murky ethical conundrums that that come with leadership of a global business.
Sea Level Rising: The Chatham Story
William Sargent
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On April 15, 2007 a new inlet broke through the barrier beach that protects Pleasant Bay in Chatham, Massachusetts. Overnight the town of Chatham faced more sea level rise than most communities will face in the next 50 years.

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