As with many aspects of American life, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted BIPOC communities. For Black businesses, this meant closing their doors and for Black workers,

As with many aspects of American life, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted BIPOC communities. For Black businesses, this meant closing their doors and for Black workers, either being laid off or made to work in unsafe conditions. In a system where Black workers are proportionally overrepresented in low-wage work and sharply underrepresented in executive positions, this negative impact is exacerbated. However discouraging this reality is, it serves as a call to action to close the wide, possibly widening, racial gap. At INFORUM, a panel of experts on the economic state of Black America will provide insight on what a path to equal and just recovery looks like, expanding upon research by McKinsey & Company. Further, juxtaposing the current reality with the prosperity offered by a better future, they will drive home the need to make change, and do so quickly. NOTES This important community program is made free to the public thanks to McKinsey & Co. AUGUST 27, 2021 SPEAKERS Shelley Stewart III Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-author, "The economic state of Black America: What is and what could be" Michael Chui Partner, McKinsey Global Institute; Co-author, "The economic state of Black America: What is and what could be" Dr. Kristen E. Broady Ph.D., Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution Jeffery Wallace CEO and President, LeadersUp Jennifer Ablan U.S. Assistant Managing Editor, Financial Times—Moderator 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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Mike and JoAnna Bresnan of Costa Rica's, Children Feeding Children, program and the change and transformation that is occurring around the world. They introduce interviews with Annie Leonard and David Orr while attending the 2010 Bioneers Conference held October 15-17, 2010 in San Rafael, California.

Filmed by Barry Heidt of GeoSpirit.tv and edited by Rob Russo.

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Uploaded on Dec 22, 2010

This animated video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board distinguishes the roles of mitigation and

Uploaded on Dec 22, 2010

This animated video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board distinguishes the roles of mitigation and adaptation in responding to climate change. The video offers examples of actions that humans can take as individuals and a society to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change on natural and built environments.

More info and educational resources available here.

Production Credits:
Finn Ryan -- producer, director
Threehouse Media -- illustration, animation
Ted Leonard -- voice

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The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard is the starting point of a discussion of the linear system that depletes forests, empty lakes, erode the land, abuses atmospher and exploits the poor in third

The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard is the starting point of a discussion of the linear system that depletes forests, empty lakes, erode the land, abuses atmospher and exploits the poor in third world countries.  The Viable System Model and Management Cybernetics is used to take a hard look at the system that is producing so much waste and resource depletion in order to suggest important change

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Inspired by The Story of Stuff Project founder, Annie Leonard, an example of how using smart phone and video cameras citizens, like me, can develop and flex their citizen muscle. Produced and written by Ruth Ann Barrett and Published on Nov 2, 2014 as an intro to her YouTube channel, PDXDowntowner.

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