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Meet Mindy Lubber. Mindy Lubber was a founding board member of Ceres, Inc., in 1989 and became its president in 2003. The organization’s goal is to advance institutional responsibility and environmental sustainability, persuading corporations to change their practices by galvanizing institutional investors. More than two dozen companies took action on climate change as a result of Ceres’ 2003 summit. Its 2005 convening produced a 10-point Call for Action that includes an investor commitment of billion to clean energy technology. Ceres now plans to persuade 25 more companies to make public commitments on climate change by 2008.

Meet Taddy Blecher. Taddy Blecher was ready to emigrate from South Africa when he took a second look at his native country. “I saw aching poverty,” he said, and he made a life-changing decision to do something about it. In 1999 he and his colleagues opened CIDA City Campus to provide disadvantaged youths a chance to earn a four-year business administration degree. At a cost of just 00 per student, CIDA has produced 1800 graduates with potential lifetime earnings of 5000 to .5 million who teach and sponsor other students. CIDA plans to open new campuses, increase enrollment and create a franchise model called University-in-a-Box entirely built and managed by students. Learn about his story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More information at www.skollfoundation.org.

Meet Victoria Hale. In the year 2000 Victoria Hale launched the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company that develops drugs and vaccines for diseases that primarily affect developing countries. Although infectious diseases account for only 10 percent of deaths in developed countries, they cause 60 percent of deaths among the world’s poorest people. OneWorld intends to bring drugs to market at costs affordable to poor people and countries. It has set up a manufacturing and marketing collaborative to begin production of its first drug, which will treat visceral leishmaniasis, a fatal tropical disease transmitted by insect bites that currently afflicts 1.5 million. Learn about her story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More information at www.skollfoundation.org.

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10. We used to regard many areas as too essential to the public good to be commercialized; they were protected by tradition and regulation. Now, everything is becoming fair game in the private taking of the commons — land, oceans, air, water, education, health, energy and social assistance. Where do we draw the line? For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: www.youtube.com

8. The profit motive drives the actions of the corporation and creates a mindset of competition and anything goes. Meet corporate spy and self-described predator Marc Barry as he describes his tactics for gathering intelligence from competing corporations. Juxtapose his attitude with Ray Anderson, President of Interface, who, in an epiphanic moment, realized he was a plunderer and it was only a matter of time before the law figures it out. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: www.youtube.com

21. A coup is no longer necessary for the corporation to dominate governments. Capitalism’s protagonists and players are the new high priests of our day. Industry and government have become intertwined to the extent that it’s hard to tell when one ends and the other begins. But citizens are resisting and protesting their dissent to the centralization of power in corporate hands. The corporation has responded by enacting programs of corporate social responsibility. Are they just a tactic responding to market pressure? For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: www.youtube.com