- -: Open for Questions: The Year in Clean Energy
January 11, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate, takes questions on progress in clean energy.
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- -: 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient: John Adams
February 17, 2011 (about 13 years ago)John H. Adams co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970. Adams served as Executive Director and, later, as President of the nonprofit conservation group until 2006. His tenure is unparalleled by the leader of any other environmental organization. Rolling Stone writes: "If the plane...
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- -: Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. TEDTalk...
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- -: Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs. TEDTalks is a daily v...
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- -: Quick takes: Kim Cobb
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Kim Cobb studies the climate variability of the past in order to construct a sense of what we can expect in the future. Having a clearer sense of rainfall, for example, over the next 100 years will be incredibly valuable in informing public policy.
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Bill McKibben: Bill McKibben Speaking at Power Shift 2011
April 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Bill McKibben delivers a rousing speech at the Power Shift 2011 convention in front of passionate people willing to change their lives to save the planet from the dangers of climate change.
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Barack Obama: A Bold New Course for NASA
April 15, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Barack Obama's speech in the JFK Space Center is all about the next step of space exploration that NASA is going to pursue to bring new jobs to the US citizens and to bring new understanding of the Earth's qualities, which may ultimately help in human survival.
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Al Gore: Averting Climate Crisis
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Former US Vice President Al Gore talks a bit about his life and how homes can start helping out the movement to resolve thge world's climate crisis.
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Rachel Pike: The Science Behind a Climate Headline
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this quick talk, scientist Rachel Pike tells us about the effort behind a Climate headline. She shows us the work being done in order for us to get accurate and current data on our climate. She gives as an example a molecule that they tracked over in Malaysia.
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John Doerr: John Doerr Sees Salvation and Profit in Greentech
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)John Doerr uses inspiring success stories of going green to inspire the audience to start minding our CO2 consumption and emission and save the earth from the disasters climate change could ultimately bring about.
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