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- -: Open for Questions: Earth Day from the South Lawn

April 21, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

In honor of Earth Day, Nancy Sutley, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, and Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, take your questions from the South Lawn of the White House. April 21, 2011.

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- -: Announcing New Fleet Management Practices & Advanced Vehicle Pilot

May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, General Services Administrator Martha Johnson, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley announce a major step in moving the Federal fleet further towards advanced vehicles and decreased petroleum consumption, while also cutting costs asso...

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- -: Authors@Google: Joel Salatin discusses 'Folks, This Ain't Normal'

October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)

Farmer, author, and activist Joel Salatin discusses his new book, "Folks, This Ain't Normal," as well as sustainable farming, food policy, and solutions to America's food woes

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Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

March 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)

In this fascinating talk, Biospherian Jane Poynter tells us about Life in Biosphere 2. She gives a background of it's history, how it was made. She also defines what a biosphere is and the questions it would be able to answer. She describes one of the major problems they had in Biosphere 2 as wel...

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Source: TED

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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Source: TED

Arthur Potts Dawson: A Vision for Sustainable Restaurants

July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)

In this talk, Green Chef Arthur Potts-Dawson tells us about his vision for sustainable restaurants. He shows us first how wasteful restaurants are and he shows us all the different types of waste. He then lets us see how a sustainable restaurant works with his 4 R's - reduce, reuse, refuse, and r...

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Graham Hill: Why I'm a Weekday Vegetarian

February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)

In this talk, Graham Hill suggests an alternative to being a vegetarian. He not only talks about the advantages and benefits of this new diet to you but how it's better for the whole environment.

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Source: TED

David Keith: Unusual Climate Change Idea

September 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)

In this talk, Environmentalist David Keith tells us about climate change. How this has already been an issue for conversations since the 1950's and what we have been able to do so far. He also presents some radical ideas for climate control and airs his concerns regarding man's march towards geo-...

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