TEDxOilSpill - Andrew Sharpless - Answers to Oil Drilling Questions
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Andrew Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana, the world's largest international nonprofit dedicated to ocean conservation. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the London School of Economics, Sharpless was one of the founding managers of RealNetworks, the Seattle-based pioneer in the field of online music and video play-back technolog... Read more
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Andrew Sharpless - Answers to Oil Drilling Questions
August 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Andrew Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana, the world's largest international nonprofit dedicated to ocean conservation. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the London School of Economics, Sharpless was one of the founding managers of RealNetworks, the Seattle-based pioneer in the f...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - BPGobalPR - BP Cares
August 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Leroy Stick is the pseudonymous humorist behind @BPGlobalPR, the Twitter account that has satirized BP's statements to the public and in the process, given a way for those frustrated by the oil spill to vent their anger with humor. He has over 160,000 followers on Twitter and continues to spread ...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Casey DeMoss Roberts - A Precautionary Tale About Oil
August 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Casey DeMoss Roberts works to develop and implement water resource campaigns and advance GRN public policy positions through public education and mobilization, including organizing outreach events and workshops. Casey has worked on climate and energy related issues for several years with both nat...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Dave Gallo - Why We Need to Care About the Ocean
August 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dave Gallo works to push the bounds of oceanic discovery. Active in undersea exploration, he was one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of manned submersibles and robots to map the ocean world with unprecedented clarity and detail. Gallo is now working with director James Cameron an...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - David Johnson - An Untold Story About the Spill
August 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)David Johnson is a professor at American University, former director and board member of the Institute of Maritime History, a non-profit dedicated to the preservation and documentation of archaeological remains related to maritime history. The IMH is currently working in the Gulf on mitigating th...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Diarmuid O'Connell - How Electric Cars Can Help Get Us Off Oil
August 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Diarmuid joined Tesla in 2006, and currently serves as the Vice President of Business Development in which capacity he manages commercial relationships and all aspects of government affairs. Before joining Tesla, Diarmuid served as Chief of Staff for Political Military Affairs at the US State Dep...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Darron Collins - Witnessing the Oil Spill
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Darron Collins joined WWF in 2001. A cultural anthropologist and an expert in ethnobotany, Darron has designed and implemented human-centered conservation programs for WWF in Latin America, Russia, China and Mongolia. His most recent endeavors involve using creative media to share WWF's work ...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Jackie Savitz - Myths About Offshore Oil Drilling
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jackie Savitz is Campaign Director and Senior Scientist for Oceana's Pollution Campaigns. She has shaped and led campaigns and projects dealing with global warming pollution from ships, mercury contamination of fish, and cruise ship pollution among other issues. Savitz has a background in marine ...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Jigar Shaw - Technology Can Solve the Energy Crisis
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A renowned visionary committed to renewable energy, Jigar Shah launched SunEdison in 2003 based upon a business plan he developed in 1999. That plan became the basis of the SunEdison model: Simplify solar as a service. Shah was tapped by Virgin mogul Richard Branson to head up the Carbon War Room...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Jim Geringer - Mapping the Oil Spill Damage
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jim Geringer was elected as Wyoming's 30th governor in 1994 and completed his second term in January 2003. His advocacy for technology in government has centered on the end result of using technology to enhance citizen services. That advocacy has led Jim to join in a full-time capacity with Envir...
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