Theme: The New Economy
Acknowledging that everything is interconnected, these videos reflect on economic prosperity in balance with the well-being of people and the planet.
RADICAL BANKING
What North Dakota has been doing for a century that saved the state from the 2008 market crash. Innovator Ellen Brown, Founder Public Banking Institute
RETHINKING OUR ECONOMY
A radical take on our assumptions of money’s purpose. Innovator David Korten, Advocate & Author of When Corporations Rule the World.
THE BUSINESS OWNERSHIP REVOLUTION
Making money nurture life rather than Wall Street. Innovator Marjorie Kelly with Democracy Collaborative; co-author of The Making of a Democratic Economy
THE NEW NEW DEAL
The time is right for economy’s next big change. Innovator Gar Alperovitz, political economist, co-founder of Democracy Collaborative & The Next System Project.
THE EVERGREEN WORKER OWNED COOPERATIVES
Creating prosperity in Cleveland. Social Entrepreneur Ted Howard, co-founder of Democracy Collaborative & former Senior Fellow for Social Justice at Cleveland Foundation
TURNING THE BLUES GREEN
How simple music could be driving economic development. Innovators John Horhn, Mississippi State Senator & Malcolm White, Director Mississippi Tourism.
BEYOND THE MIGHTY DOLLAR
A sharing economy maximizes the value in non-monetary assets. Innovator Arun Sundararajan, Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the Stern School of Business, New York University.
EAT MORE CHOCOLATE
No need to sacrifice pleasure while striving to do good. Innovator Sophi Tranchell, CEO Divine Chocolate
HOUR WORLD
Social currency and community capital replace dollars in this bank. Innovator Linda Hogan, Founding Member of hOurworld Cooperative.
THEME: DIVERSITY
Understanding family values assists in loving and caring for our children, parents, and other community members and treating them the way we wish to be treated.
RECLAIMING SACRED BEINGS
One man’s quest to restore Native American cultures. Innovator Terry Cross (Seneca Nation), Founder of National Association of Indian Children’s Welfare.
NO RESERVATIONS
New Native American organizations combat stereotypes and foster leadership in innovative ways. Innovator Darius Smith (Navajo), Director Denver Anti-Discrimination Office & Liaison to American Indian Commission.
THE MISSING PIECE
An Arizona teacher discovers a key to closing our schools’ achievement gap. Innovator Curtis Acosta, Mexican American Ethnic Studies Educator
GAY RIGHTS IN FLORIDA
The woman putting Florida at the forefront of the gay rights movement. Innovator Nadine Smith, Co-Founder & CEO Equality Florida.
DIVIDED WE SINK
The importance of unity in efforts to save our planet. Innovator Mel Hoover, Reverend Emeritus Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
HEALING WINDS OF CHANGE
An Ogalala woman’s drive to create a pillar of Indian power, commerce
and community. Innovator Shadana Dickerson Sultan (Ogalala Lakota), Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce
THE SACRED WITHIN THE PROFANE
A Santa Clara Pueblo Indian artist strives to honor items in a Pueblo dump while following tribal traditions and questions a culture of consumption. Innovator Nora Naranjo-Morse (Tewa), Mixed Media Artist & Poet
AMERICAN FOOD YOU’VE NEVER TASTED
This Native American eatery serves food you’ll have to see before you eat. Innovator Ben Jacobs (Osage Nation), Co-Owner Tocabe, An American Indian Eatery
THEME: FOOD
The way we produce, consume, and handle food and its waste encompasses multiple aspects of the human experience
SISTERS OF THE LAND
Future farmers and policymakers learn spiritual land stewardship in Indiana. Innovators Sisters of Providence with the White Violet Eco Justice Center in Terra Haute, Indiana.
LOCAVORE’S DILEMMA
Good food grown locally doesn’t have to be so hard to find. Innovator Carolyn Goodwin, Co-Founder of Sound Food in Bainbridge Island, WA.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Rocky Horror Picture Show, feeding college students, and improving local farmers’ lives. Innovator Mark LoParco, Director of University of Montana Dining at the University of Montana in Missoula.
EAT MORE CHOCOLATE
No need to sacrifice pleasure while striving to do good. A Chocolate Company co-owned by African Cocoa Farmers. Innovator Sophi Tranchell, CEO Divine Chocolate
A CULTIVATED CITY
How urban agriculture is blossoming in Portland, Oregon. Innovators Caienna Bierwirth & Rex Rolle, Simpson Street Farmers; Innovators Dena & Noel Lieberman, Sun Blossom Farm
HATCHING SOLUTIONS
Working with nature to increase salmon populations without chemicals. Innovator Al Seale, Pillar Creek Hatchery Manager in Kodiak, Alaska
AMERICAN FOOD YOU’VE NEVER TASTED
This Native American eatery serves food you’ll have to see before you eat. Innovator Ben Jacobs ( Osage Nation), Co-Owner of Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery
NO SCRAP LEFT BEHIND
A retired teacher prioritizes reducing waste and feeding the hungry. Innovator Dennis Karas, retired teacher and professional gleaner.
NEIGHBORHOODS
Neighborhoods create and form communities. People thrive when a collective sense of trust and being able to count on one another exists in a neighborhood. All over the country, individuals are creatively building healthy and flourishing neighborhoods.
THE MIRACLE OF CAMP QUIXOTE
A group of churches and nomads discover together the true meaning—and power—of sanctuary. Innovators Jill Severn & Timothy Ransom, Panza Board of Directors Members, who were instrumental in the establishment of a model tiny home community for the homeless.
BEYOND GENTRIFICATION
A Portland neighborhood leader seeks to reverse trends and bring opportunities and amenities to communities facing the invasion of affluent immigrants. Innovator Jeff Gerwing serves on the Cully Eco-District Advisory Board in Portland OR and is an Associate Professor at Portland State University
HELLO, NEIGHBOR
How 75,000 people around the globe are using social media to get to know their neighbors and pool their resources. Innovator Rebecca Rockefeller is the co-founder of the Buy Nothing Project.
TIME WELL SPENT
Time, not money, is the currency at the Hour Exchange. Innovator Stephen Beckett, lead programmer and participant in Hour Exchange Portland.
COMMUNAL LIVING
Communal living with all its benefits that uses a new model for decision-making that trumps consensus. Innovator Heather Carver is a resident at Columbia Eco-Village in Portland, OR
NO SCRAP LEFT BEHIND
A retired teacher prioritizes reducing waste and feeding the hungry. Innovator Innovator Dennis Karas, retired teacher and professional gleaner.
A CULTIVATED CITY
How urban agriculture is blossoming in Portland, Oregon. Innovators Innovators Caienna Bierwirth & Rex Rolle, Simpson Street Farmers; Innovators Dena & Noel Lieberman, Sun Blossom Farm
HOUR WORLD
Social currency and community capital replace dollars in this bank. Innovator Linda Hogan, Founding Member of hOurworld Cooperative.
EDUCATION
Children and youth spend a large majority of their days in school. The way they are taught about others and themselves is as much a core subject as science, reading, or mathematics.
THE MISSING PIECE
An Arizona teacher discovers a key to closing our schools’ achievement gap. Innovator Curtis Acosta, Mexican American Ethnic Studies Educator
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Rocky Horror Picture Show, feeding college students, and improving local farmers’ lives. Innovator Mark LoParco, Director of University of Montana Dining at the University of Montana in Missoula.
SISTERS OF THE LAND
Future farmers and policymakers learn spiritual land stewardship in Indiana.Innovators Sisters of Providence with the White Violet Eco Justice Center in Terra Haute, Indiana.
BRAINIACS LEARN A LESSON
Sometimes those being taught unintentionally become the teachers themselves. Innovator Brian McEwen, Former Executive Director of Champions for Children Tampa Bay, Florida.
FARMERS’ CO-OP IN ZAMBIA
A Floridian couple, Michigan school students, and an African farmer team up to enhance the education of girls and launch agricultural reform. Innovators George Sherman & Valerie Gallina, educators and philanthropists.
ENVIRONMENT
Initiatives to reduce the use of fossil fuels and preserve the planet are plentiful and being seen in homes, places of worship, and various community endeavors.
LET THE $UN SHINE
A synagogue, a dancer, 13 countries, and 500 strangers. Innovator Andreas Karales , Executive Director ReVolv Solar Nonprofit.
A DETECTIVE STORY
A group of determined citizens join scientists and discover the truth about the contamination of their water supply. Innovator Pulitzer Prize Winner Nonfiction Dan Fagin.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Member-owned electric company reaches 100% in use of renewable resources. Innovator Jim Devlin, Operations & Engineering Manager at Kodiak Electric Association in Alaska
HATCHING SOLUTIONS
Working with nature to increase salmon populations without chemicals. Innovator Al Seale, Pillar Creek Hatchery Manager in Kodiak, Alaska
UNITED FOR LIFE
The citizens of Charleston come together to protect their water. Innovators Retired Reverends Mel Hoover and Rose Edington , Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
THE ARTS
Arts are a powerful conduit for mainstreaming societal issues and solutions as well as for strengthening a sense of community.
THE SACRED WITHIN THE PROFANE
A Santa Clara Pueblo Indian artist strives to honor items in a Pueblo dump while following tribal traditions and questions a culture of consumption. Innovator Nora Naranjo-Morse (Tewa), Mixed Media Artist & Poet
A MOVEABLE MUSICAL VILLAGE
New Orleans’ artists use recycled materials to build homes that are able to double as musical instruments. Innovator Delaney Martin, Artistic Director of Dithyrambalina and Co-founder of New Orleans Airlift.
TURNING THE BLUES GREEN
How simple music could be driving economic development. Innovators John Horhn, Mississippi State Senator & Malcolm White, Director Mississippi Tourism.
HEALTHCARE
Healthcare is a multifaceted issue that can be explored in many different ways
PLAYING MONEY-BALL
Exploring options in making healthcare more affordable for patients and more lucrative for doctors. Innovators Don McCormick, founder of the Patients Physicians Cooperative operating in Houston and in other cities;Fred Trotter, Data Scientist at Patients Physicians Cooperative;
PUNC POWER
Communal napping and healing for a sliding scale. Innovators David Barfield, receptionist and Whitsitt Goodson, licensed acupuncturist at Working Class Acupuncture in Portland, OR.
MIND OVER BODY
A woman uses the power of thought to expedite her healing process. Innovator Roberts Fernandez, Master Practitioner of Hypnosis in Eden Prairie, MN.
MEDIA
Media is communication through publication, broadcast, Internet, smoke signals and intuitive powers that raises awareness or broadens and deepens knowledge about positive solutions to societal problems. The solutions covered are beyond band aids that simply treat the symptoms of societal ills.
YES! MAGAZINE
Your outlook on the world may be determined by where you get your news. Innovator Fran Korten, Publisher YES! Magazine
A DETECTIVE STORY
A group of determined citizens join scientists and discover the truth about the contamination of their water supply. Innovator Dan Fagin, Pulitzer Prize Winner Nonfiction.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Children and youth are the future. It takes a community of different people interacting with them to help them experience and grow in a caring and safe environment. Organizations that take on this responsibility with love, competence and deep dedication are highlighted in this theme.
BRAINIACS LEARN A LESSON
Sometimes those being taught unintentionally become the teachers themselves. Innovator Brian McEwen, Former Executive Director Champions for Children, Tampa Bay, Florida.