TEDxUtrechtUniversity - Ann Pettifor - Decarbonising the economy: How we can finance it.
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Ann Pettifor is a director of PRIME, an economic think-tank, and a Fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She has won wide acclaim for her work in explaining how society can finance the Green New Deal. By helping us understand the 'magic' of quantitative easing, she explains that, as a society, we can afford what we can do - within the limits o... Read more
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- -: TEDxUtrechtUniversity - Ann Pettifor - Decarbonising the economy: How we can finance it.
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ann Pettifor is a director of PRIME, an economic think-tank, and a Fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She has won wide acclaim for her work in explaining how society can finance the Green New Deal. By helping us understand the 'magic' of quantitative easing, she explains that, as a society, ...
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- -: TEDxUtrechtUniversity - Jacqueline Cramer - The power of the people: Grassroots impact
May 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)As head of UCAD, the Utrecht Center for Earth and Sustainability, former Dutch Environmental Minister and former professor of sustainable entrepreneurship, Dr. Cramer will emphasize the role that grassroots movements can play in leading society toward sustainability. By discussing current project...
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- -: TEDxUtrechtUniversity - Katja Gruijters - Beautiful by Nature
May 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)As a food artist and designer concerned with the link between waste and the human relationship with food, Katja Gruijters discusses the development of the social project Mooi van Nature (Beautiful by Nature). She uses powerful images to show us how our disconnection with one of the most basic nee...
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- -: TEDxUtrechtUniversity - Marc Cornelissen - Arctic explorations
May 15, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)As an arctic explorer Marc Cornelissen will take us on a journey of the mind by using his personal traveling experiences in the planet's polar regions to illustrate how climate change impacts the eco-system, native population and the global climate system. Through the use of storytelling and exci...
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- -: TEDxUtrechtUniversity-Paul Heistein-The elephant in the room.
May 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)As a former globetrotter and founder of One Planet, Paul Heistein works towards implementing carbon reduction practices in various settings. Although, there are many technologically based solutions for sustainability, Paul focuses on behavioral change as the most important key to unlocking a bett...
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- -: TEDxUtrechtUniversity-Saskia Teppema-The Four Elements
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Executive coach Saskia Teppema will share the story of four elemental aspects of successful leadership and why they are important for building a sustainable future. Using a personal story to bring these concepts to life, Saskia introduces us to a character who helps us to understand how we can ap...
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- -: TEDxTheHague - Rachelle Eerhart - Urban Farmer, Taking a Natural Cycles Perspective
July 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Rachelle Eerhart, Urban farmer, Japanologist, reader, writer and dancer. My first motivation is having a good life. Not the planet, not nature, me. In search of this good life however, I have found that living it more in sync with nature makes me happy. Taking care of the planet means taking care...
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- -: TEDxTheHague - Kathy Voyles - Changing the World One Dinner at a Time
July 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Kathy Voyles, Cook, connector, food inspirer, gardener, local food lover, speaker and writer. I grew up on a dairy farm in the grasslands of New Zealand. My earliest memories are of my mother Patricia making picnics for the once weekly trip to "town". Those picnics featured egg and bacon pies, ca...
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- -: TEDxTheHague - Peter Westbroek - Earth and Wagner!
July 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Peter Westbroek, Geologist and emeritus professor Geophysiology. Peter Westbroek studied geology and did his PhD in fossil brachiopod paleobiology at Leiden University (the Netherlands). He then had a postdoctoral position at Queen's University in Belfast where he began biochemical research on bi...
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- -: TEDxTheHague - Eva-Maria Westbroek - Music is a Language
July 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Eva-Maria Westbroek, Soprano. Charismatic, knowledgeable, and self-ironizing: this is how world-class soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek comes across in conversation. Westbroek is passionate about her work and she is aware of the cathartic qualities of music, fully conscious that every performance can p...
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