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Showing videos filed under: urban
Helena Norberg-Hodge: The Economics of Happiness
January 28, 2011"Economics has a lot to do with unhappiness," says Helena Norberg-Hodge, co-director of The Economics of Happiness. "We have an economic system that is systematically creating job scarcity worldwide," she notes, and it's time that we stopped obsessing about bottom lines, corporate growth, and income at the top and started to think about other ways of measuring positive effects in global society.Laurie Penny, the Economics of Happiness, and Snow Justice
January 27, 2011"It's a very, very exciting time to be involved in politics," says the New Statesman's Laurie Penny, who has a cover story in the magazine this week on what's next for the student protesters in London now that the Liberal Democrat/Conservative government has passed the education budget cuts. Disability funding and even the National Health Service are in the sights of the government's hatchet, and the students are hard at work reaching out to broaden their coalition.Got Docs: Lasting Scars
December 18, 2010Kelly Anderson is a longtime Brooklyn resident, but when she found herself being priced out of neighborhoods, she decided to take a closer look at the forces of gentrification, and their impact on the city's race and class makeup. Zeroing in on the Fulton Mall, a historically black shopping district in Downtown Brooklyn being eyed by developers for a "renaissance," Anderson and her crew examine the forces reshaping the city.Raj Patel & David Kirby, Lasting Scars, and Marjorie Ingall
December 17, 2010"We are heading toward a two-tiered food system in this country," notes David Kirby, author of Animal Factory. The food safety bill that just passed Congress puts some safety standards back into the U.S. food system, but does it do anything to change the ability of poor folks to buy healthy food? Raj Patel points out that when wages are kept low and work is devalued, it doesn't matter how cheap food is; people won't be able to afford it.Making Infrastructure Sexy Again
February 17, 2010After our terrifying experience with a manhole explosion and fire at the office last Thursday, the pressing need for infrastructure investment was brought home to us here at GRITtv in a very real way. Years of budget cuts and tax cuts have led to public safety hazards around the country, and the stimulus bill isn't enough to fix all the electrical, structural, and other problems.Infrastructure, Kathleen Hanna, and Jay Smooth
February 16, 2010After our terrifying experience with a manhole explosion and fire at the office last Thursday, the pressing need for infrastructure investment was brought home to us here at GRITtv in a very real way. Years of budget cuts and tax cuts have led to public safety hazards around the country, and the stimulus bill isn't enough to fix all the electrical, structural, and other problems.An Appreciation of the New Times Square
February 10, 2010From our friends at Street Films, we have this look at the changes to Times Square, helping to make it a more pleasant, usable space for pedestrians and people.Abolish the Senate, Joe Sacco and Lisa Graves
February 9, 2010With the election of Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Democrats in DC seemed to give up on getting any major legislation passed. 59 votes (well, 58 and Joe Lieberman) was just not good enough. The blame has been flying--it's Obama's fault, Rahm Emanuel's, Harry Reid's--but what if the problem simply is the Senate?Public Housing and the American Dream
December 17, 2009Reinhold Martin, Columbia professor of Architecture joined us in the studio for a fascinating discussion public housing, urban and rural living, and the fact that many "public" provisions that do not carry a stigma.Fixing Capitalism, Public Housing, and Kambale Musavuli
December 16, 2009Breaking News: Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time’s Person of the Year. The recession's over! Not so fast.
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