Rural community development

Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for micro-lending; now he plans to help the poorest of the poor through “social business.”

Micro-loans have helped some of the poorest people in the developing world become entrepreneurs.

Author Rowan Gibson talks about how businesses can encourage innovation even if their host countries don’t.

Farmer and writer Wendell Berry reads his poem, “A Vision,” from his most recent publication, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. The last in a series of his poetry readings on Living On Earth, this poem offers a hopeful look at humanity’s future.

Writer Wendell Berry reads his short poem, The Wild, about finding nature even in the most urban setting.