TEDxOilSpill - Darron Collins - Witnessing the Oil Spill
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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 with new, influential audiences and use storytelli... Read more
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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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- -: Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity
August 16, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Convince just 100 key companies to go sustainable, and WWF's Jason Clay says global markets will shift to protect the planet our consumption has already outgrown. Hear how his extraordinary roundtables are getting big brand rivals to agree on green practices first -- before the...
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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 - 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 - 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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- -: TEDxWWF - James Alexander: Creativity versus climate change
October 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What if creativity and smart marketing could be combined to help inspire people to lead a greener life? James will show us how it could be done. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. A...
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