TEDxWWF - Emmanuel De Merode: A Story of Conflict Renewal & Hope
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Emmanuel De Merode, Director for Virunga National Park, gives an account of the struggle to save one of the world's great national parks with its population of mountain gorillas, renders accessible to an audience one of the darkest conflicts in recent history, the bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is not just a story of bl... Read more
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- -: TEDxWWF - Emmanuel De Merode: A Story of Conflict Renewal & Hope
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Emmanuel De Merode, Director for Virunga National Park, gives an account of the struggle to save one of the world's great national parks with its population of mountain gorillas, renders accessible to an audience one of the darkest conflicts in recent history, the bloody civil war in the Democrat...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Carlos Drews: The Faces of Conservation
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In our globalized world, species conservation is no longer about local solutions to local problems. WWF's Global Species Programme Director Dr. Carlos Drews aruges that because we are all connected, conservation is everybody's business. Carlos Drews is the Director of the WWF International Speci...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Justin Hall-Tipping: The Power of the Simple Electron
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Justin Hall-Tipping works on nano-energy startups - mastering the electron to create power. Some of our most serious planetary worries revolve around energy and power - controlling it, paying for it, and the consequences of burning it. Justin Hall-Tipping had an epiphany about the need for findi...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Kamal Quadir: Audacity to take Part
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Kamal Quadir is the CEO of bKash. Kamal talks about how digital platforms are increasingly becoming available in poor countries at a reasonable cost, and so is the endless flow of innovative applications that are riding on those platforms. The trick is to make poor people see that they are alread...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Michael Spencer: Sound and Sustainability
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)One of the most evocative relationships we make with the natural world is through its sounds. As an abundant source of information they have influenced our survival rate and enriched our cultures and traditions. Erosion of these connections not only impoverishes our aural spectrum but marks a los...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Dawa Steven Sherpa: Initiating Action
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dawa talks about how we all have a natural urge to better the world we live in, but due to the obstacles placed before us we give up before we even start. He shares stories of how he managed to start working on small ideas, developing them until they are joined and continued by a bigger mass. Da...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Mike Barry: A Manifesto for a Sustainable Business Revolution
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mike Barry is Head of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer. Mike talks about how we are living beyond our environmental and social means in the developed world and, on current trajectories, in the not too distant future a growing middle class in the developing world will too. There is a growin...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Jason Clay: Biogas Digesters in Africa - A "10X" Opportunity
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The distribution of household biogas digesters in Africa could reduce green house gas emissions and violence against women and children, increase life expectancy, food security and literacy, and offset carbon emissions from China. About TEDx: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a p...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Andy Wales: The Water-Food-Energy Nexus - Why Everything you Consume is Connected
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)We are used to tackling challenges as single issues - rainforest depletion, overfishing, water scarcity - to name but a few. NGOs run compelling campaigns on single issues, companies develop issue-based targets, and most critically governments set policy and regulation in issue-based silos. But t...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Jason Clay: Feeding 9 Billion and Maintaining the Planet
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jason explores why food production is the most important conservation issue in the 21st century, where we stand today and with 'business as usual' projections for 2050, and what the nine food wedges are that would allow us to produce enough food for all, but still have a planet. There is no sil...
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