- -: TEDxOilSpill - Lisa Margonelli - The Political Chemistry of Oil
August 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Lisa Margonelli writes about the global culture and economy of energy. Her book about the oil supply chain, Oil On the Brain: Petroleum's Long Strange Trip to Your Tank, was published by Nan Talese/Doubleday in 2007. Recognized as one of the 25 Notable Books of 2007 by the American Library Associ...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Carl Safina - The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims
August 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Carl Safina is a prominent ecologist and marine conservationist and president of Blue Ocean Institute, an environmental organization based in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He has also been a recreational fisherman since childhood. A winner of the prestigious Pew Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowsh...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Duncan Davidson - Documenting the Spill
September 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)This is a week-long project to document the current situation in the Gulf of Mexico and bring a first hand report back to the TEDxOilSpill event in Washington DC on June 28th. We'll be working on land, air, and maybe even on boat. Our team is composed of several talented photographers and videogr...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Francis Beland - Oil Cleanup X Challenge
September 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE is a $1.4 million competition designed to inspire a new generation of innovative solutions that will speed the pace of cleaning up seawater surface oil resulting from spillage from ocean platforms, tankers, and other sources. This one year competition wil...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - LaTosha Brown - Cleaning Up the Dirty South
September 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)LaTosha Brown is an award-winning community organizer, political strategist and philanthropic consultant with over twenty years of experience working on a wide variety of issues related to social justice and civil rights. A native of Alabama, after Hurricane Katrina she founded the Saving OurSelv...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Liz Barry - Grassroots Mapping
September 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Liz Barry demonstrates the Crisis Commons Grassroots Mapping.
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- -: Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims
July 12, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf -- and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse. T...
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- -: Lisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil
August 26, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com In the Gulf oil spill's aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract from the issue at its heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off of oil -- by confronting consumers ...
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