- -: TEDxOilSpill - Klaus Lackner - Renewable Liquid Fuels
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Klaus Lackner is the Ewing Worzel Professor of Geophysics at Columbia University, where he is also the Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, the Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and a member of the Earth Institute faculty.
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - John Francis - We Must Stop Exploiting the Planet
August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In the early 1970s John Francis gave up using motorized vehicles after witnessing the devastating effects of an oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Soon afterwards he took an even more radical step: a vow of silence that lasted 17 years, during which he undertook a pilgrimage by foot across America o...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Mike Mendez - Green Crude is the Answer
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mike Mendez has held a number of top industry positions at the forefront of the molecular biology revolution. In addition to serving as Director of Bioengineering at GenWay, Mr. Mendez was also associate director of Exploratory Research at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. There he established a new depart...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Mike Tidwell - We Need Windmills Not Oil Spills
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mike Tidwell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. He is also an author and filmmaker. Tidwell received the Audubon Natur...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Phil Radford - Can We Kick Our Habit?
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Phil Radford is the Executive Director of Greenpeace USA. He has a background in grassroots organizing, campaign planning, and energy policy. As Grassroots Director, it was Phil's vision and leadership that built Greenpeace's $9 million Grassroots Program and our cutting edge online to on-the-gro...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Reid Detchon - Say No to Oil
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Reid Detchon is Vice President for Energy and Climate at the United Nations Foundation. He is also the executive director of the Energy Future Coalition, a broad-based non-partisan public policy initiative supported by the UN Foundation that seeks to bring about change in U.S. energy policy to ad...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Ronald Atlas - How Do We Clean Up the Oil?
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Ronald Atlas pioneered the field of bioremediation and showed that fertilizer application can hasten the rates of oil removal following oil spillages. He has worked on several major oil spills, including the Amoco Cadiz spill in Brittany, the IXTOC-1 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Exxon Val...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Phillipe Cousteau - The Biggest Threat is the Oil We Can't See
August 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Philippe Cousteau is the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member of the legendary family, Philippe is continuing the work of his father through EarthEcho International, the non-profit organization he founded with his sister and mother a...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Sylvia Earle - By Killing the Ocean, We Kill Ourselves
August 19, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sylvia Earle, called "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress and "Hero for the Planet" by Time, is an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer with a deep commitment to research through personal exploration. Earle's work has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades. ...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Wolcott Henry - Photographing the Oil Spill
August 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)For over 20 years, Mr. Henry has been president of The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation, a private foundation that supports marine conservation with an emphasis on fisheries management, marine protected areas, and coral reefs. In addition, Mr. Henry is an accomplished underwater photographer. A...
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