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• Paul Zak: Trust, Morality – and Oxytocin
  This 16:35 minute TED talk identifies oxytocin as the moral molecule found only in mammals and responsible for trust, empathy, and other feelings that help build a stable society.  It identifies the sources of oxytocin and what inhibits oxytocin.  According to this research empathy makes us moral.
   
• Nate Garvis:  Change Our Culture, Change Our World
  This 10:43 minute presentation looks at regulations as built in habits.  It gives concrete examples of how to get serious about intrinsic motivation to concentrate public policy on outcomes rather than outputs.
   
• Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities
  This 10:13 minute TED talk addresses how cities and neighborhoods are planning and taking responsibility for reducing density in communities.  This allows for green projects in urban planning.  Citizens want access to capacity to do things, not just to have more and expensive things.  This is an example of the New Public Service theory in practice.
   
• Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic
  This 12:50 minute TED talk looks at plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Poor people are limited by income in the choices they make and suffer the consequences. There are new opportunities to change our disposable society.  We can join together as a community to make better economic choices that do not destroy our ecology or our people.
   
• Values-Driven Leadership 
  Mick Yates discusses values-driven leadership in this 7:54 video, for the University of Leeds Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre, where he is Visiting Professor.
   
• David Gergen on the Common Good 
  Former presidential advisor David Gergen discusses ethics, government, and the common good in this 1:12:44 video for the Chautauqua Institute.