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Carnegie Council's Advocates for Ethics in Business is a unique series of interviews that includes conversations with business, civil society, and academic leaders. Through their discussions, these leaders share innovative ideas, examine the role of business in society, and address the ethical considerations connected to conducting business globally.
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Carnegie Council's Advocates for Ethics in Business is a unique series of interviews that includes conversations with business, civil society, and academic leaders. Through their discussions, these leaders share innovative ideas, examine the role of business in society, and address the ethical considerations connected to conducting business globally.
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JULIA TAYLOR KENNEDY: Welcome to Global Ethics Forum. I'm your host, Julia Taylor Kennedy.
On a hike through the woods after a spring rain, you might come across what looks like a random puddle full of salamanders and tadpoles. Ecologists call it a vernal pool. Come back in the fall, and the vernal pool could have vanished. But the salamanders aren't gone; they usually just migrate to a drier area to forage and spend the winter, and in the spring they return to the very same puddle to mate.
Moving around so frequently, it's easy for salamanders to escape the notice of real estate developers. If their pool has disappeared under a new home, a whole population of salamanders can disappear.
Enter Alex Felson. He's a professor at Yale University, a landscape architect, and an urban ecologist. Felson is a champion of salamanders and other creatures that lived in vernal pools, and he creates...
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