An excerpt from a speech Nick Jankel gave at The Global Summit II: Humanity Uniting for a Global Future, November, 8-10, 2010, San Francisco, California. A "Mind Maverick" & Global Expert on Collaboration, Leadership and Innovation, Nick Jankel is the founder of an influential global community of 1500+ ethical innovators called RadicalReinvention.org (formerly Disruptive Social Innovators) and has worked on social innovations in many countries, consulting to, and collaborating with, the Young Foundation, the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, the Carbon Trust, the World Wildlife Foundation, the Social Enterprise Coalition, Mars Sustainable Innovation and the British Heart Foundation amongst others.

Nick is a practical philosopher -- and the thinking man's life coach -- who blends together enlightening and enabling scientific insight, sharp political and social thinking and a treasure trove of psychological and spiritual wisdom researched over 20 years of personal exploration and professional commitment.

His newest book, Switch On: How to Ignite Your Creative Spirit with the New Science of Breakthrough is available through Amazon (click on image) or check with your local bookstore.

If we don't begin to instill the new seed, a seed of the heart, based on being connected, not separated and do this at the global level then we will keep spending money on programs that don't work.

Nick Jankel is the founder of an influential global community of 1500+ ethical innovators called RadicalReinvention.org (formerly Disruptive Social Innovators.) He is Nick is a practical philosopher -- and the thinking man's life coach -- who blends together enlightening and enabling scientific insight, sharp political and social thinking and a treasure trove of psychological and spiritual wisdom researched over 20 years of personal exploration and professional commitment.

Nick was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv, the voices of sustainability.

Lorie Wigle is the General Manager, Eco-Technology Program Office of the Intel Corporation and President of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. She talks about how she was eco-minded beginning in high school and continues to be so in her work at Intel.

Lorie was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv, the voices of sustainability at the Portland State University's The Center for Global Leadership in Sustainability, Business and Sustainability Conference, November, 2010. 

Voices of Sustainability: In his new book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, Dean Gus Speth asserts that today's environmental reality is linked powerfully with growing social inequality and the neglect and erosion of democratic governance and popular control.

Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. "The Way We're Working Isn't Working" offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we're both more satisfied and more productive—on the job and off.

By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, co-author of the #1 bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we're neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we're at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs.