Notable links for this past week

Economist Jeffrey Sachs at the Westminster Town Hall Forum, Minneapolis

Broadcast: Midday, 10/24/2011, 12:00 p.m., Minnesota Public Radio

Jeffrey Sachs is a professor of health policy and management at Columbia University, and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia. The renowned economist speaks at the Westminster Town Hall Forum about his work to promote economic development with environmental sustainability.

James Howard Kunstler: Peak Oil and Our Financial Decline

In this fourth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, author, blogger and social critic James Howard Kunstler opens up on two circumstances he sees running neck and neck “that are going to put us out of business as an advanced industrial civilization”—the “fiasco” in banking, money and finance and the unfolding “energy predicament.” He explains that the crises are really all about "capital" and that we need to look at how wealth has been accumulated and deployed for productive purposes.