- -: Brooke Betts Farrell: Waste as Treasure
November 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The amount of resources -- money, energy, land, water -- that go into dealing with the stuff we throw away is staggering. Brooke Betts Farrell's idea is simple: she wants her company, RecycleMatch, to be the eBay of trash. Matching those who have waste with those who need it, RecycleMatch lowers ...
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- -: Pieter Hoff's Groasis waterboxx
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Dutch bulb grower, Pieter Hoff has an idea about how to make deserts bloom: capture the humidity in the air, store it in a box, and use that condensation to water plants. He calls this box the Groasis waterboxx and he thinks it can change how we feed the world and reduce greenhouse gases.
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- -: Alan Rabinowitz: Saving Big Cats
January 3, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Alan Rabinowitz overcame a debilitating stutter to lend his voice on behalf of big cats. After creating the world's first jaguar sanctuary and world's largest tiger reserve, the wildlife biologist now calls for new models of conservation that rely on wildlife corridors to allow humans and animals...
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- -: Carlo Ratti: Oil-absorbing Robots
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab Carlo Ratti wondered if there was a way to create a small, inexpensive, scalable, self-organizing system to help remove the oil after the Gulf oil spill. He discusses the inception of Seaswarm, a fleet of low-cost oil-absorbing robots in his PopTech 2010 talk.
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- -: Shaily Mahendra: Bioremediation
November 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In a process called bioremediation, Shaily Mahendra uses bacteria and fungi to indicate levels of pollution and ecosystem health. These same microorganisms can also be used to detoxify a wide variety of environmental pollutants, restoring a contaminated environment back to its healthier state.
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- -: TEDxNovokuzneck-Perfileva Elena-How to reduce environmental risks.flv
November 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxNovokuzneck-Ovsyannikov Vecheslav-Slavic roots of Yoga. 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. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and c...
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- -: TEDxHongreung - Moonjae Lee - Fight against being distracted
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Moonjae Lee is an ecological poet who is dreaming of healing, recovery, and new way of life. In this video, he talks about being distracted.
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- -: TEDxHONOLULU - Susan Cox - No Green Power Hero Left Behind: Activation for the Planet!
November 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Susan created and implemented the Green Power Hero energy awareness program that has now reached 150,000 students in over 300 schools in Hawai'i, California and New Orleans. Her Green Power Girl (GPG) and Green Power Hero (GPH) super power characters are designed to educate, inspire and activate ...
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- -: John Baez - Ecological Damage from Global Warming
February 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=584 Celebrated mathematical physicist John Baez looks at global warming from an historical perspective, and details the widespread ecological damage that may result from rapid climate change. ----- John Baez - "Zooming Out in Time" The g...
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- -: Amazon Experience Gives John Perkins New Perspective on Global Warming
March 2, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/22/John_Perkins_The_Hit_Men_Strike_Home John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Hoodwinked, explains how his experiences with an Amazonian tribe led to a "mind set change" on the issue of global warming. Perkins insists that "we mu...
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