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A speech by environmental chemist Michael Braungart about the Cradle to Cradle design philosophy held in New Zealand.

Another C2C documentary!

An awesome concert of Lupe Fiasco ft. Matthew Sanchez and Gemstones. Great band makes the live experience a lot better! Lupe Fiasco rapping a lot of songs in accapella. Sound quality not always the best, but still it is great!

Ausra, the developer of utility-scale solar thermal power headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, today officially opened the reflector production line of its first North American manufacturing and distribution center in Las Vegas. The 130,000-square-foot, highly automated manufacturing and distribution center will supply the reflectors, absorber tubes, and other key components of the company's solar thermal power plants to the rapidly growing Southwestern solar power industry.U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Ausra President and CEO Robert Fishman officially started the reflector production line. They were joined by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President Rhone Resch, Nevada Development Authority (NDA) President & CEO Somer Hollingsworth, and a bipartisan group of southern Nevada government and business leaders in opening the factory line – the first of its kind in the United States.

The latest movie by the legendary Coen brothers!

In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Budhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, trough experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis...

Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At approximately the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.

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A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented, but troubled eighteen year old art student befriends an elderly alcoholic genius painter who has turned his back on not only art, but life. The two form, what appears to be at first a tenuous relationship. The kid wants to learn all the secrets the master has locked away inside his head and heart. Time has not been kind to the old master. His life appears pointless to him until the kid rekindles his interest in his work and ultimately gives him the will to live. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The kid learns to see the world through the master’s eyes. And the master learns to see life through the eyes of innocence again. This story is based on a real life experience.

In A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, elderly Mr. Shi (Henry O) arrives from China to spend time with ... his divorced daughter, Yilan (Faye Yu), hoping to help her sort out her life in this strange new country. That, after all, is his duty as a parent. Yilan, although polite, doesn’t feel like being the dutiful daughter. Unlike Geraldine in DIM SUM, Yilan can’t wait to be rid of her parent, whose need to pry into and control her like becomes a nuisance - even if he does lovingly cook up multi-course meals for her at the end of the workday.

Every family has a black sheep. This one is blue. Inept Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to his holy terror nephews while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. Salman must take a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot in order to help make ends meet and hold the family together.

Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time."

Trailer for an animation film consisting of short stories. The animation is truly stunning!

Waste = Food is the principle doctrine of the Cradle to Cradle concept of environmentally good production where this documentary is about. The Dutch version of this Documentary caused for incredible movement on the Sustainable business front.

A teaser trailer for the New Industrial Revolution movie about creating sustainable growth in balance with nature. For more see Mcdonough.com.