- -: TEDxDubbo - Prof Susan Pond - Can Human Ingenuity Make Oil?
September 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr Susan Pond AM FTSE is Adjunct Professor of the Dow Sustainability Program at the United States Study Centre, which is based at The University of Sydney. The Program brings together Australian and international academic, business and policy experts in order to address a range of sustainability ...
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- -: Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world
January 12, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.
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- -: Al Gore: 15 ways to avert a climate crisis
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter "brand name" for global warming. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the be...
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- -: David Keith: A surprising idea for "solving" climate change
November 15, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ...
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- -: Juan Enriquez: Why can't we grow new energy?
November 15, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he argues, needs to change. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Larry Brilliant: The case for informed optimism
December 7, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com We've known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other depressing trends, he's optimistic and tells us why. From Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK, www.skollfoundation.org TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
April 8, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com - In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that b...
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- -: Andy Hobsbawm: Do the green thing
December 1, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www/ted.com Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.
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- -: Al Gore: Alarming new slides of the worsening climate crisis
May 7, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal." TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the...
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- -: Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of f
August 31, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring....
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