- -: Not In My Backyard: Is Activism Impairing Energy Reform?
June 18, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/14/Americas_Energy_Future_A_Debate Christine Todd Whitman, Karen Harbert and James Woolsey argue that the Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) activist movement prevents improvement to the national energy grid. Harber says 244 energy projects have been halted by l...
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- -: Cities That Pre-Date Religion: Real Estate and Human Civilization - Stewart Brand
March 17, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/01/Long-Term_Thinking_in_the_Next_10000_Years Why are there so many histories of architecture, but none of real estate? Futurist Stewart Brand discusses the central role that land has played throughout human civilization. ----- Long Finance is an initi...
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- -: What if San Francisco Bay Rose by One Meter? Sayonara SFO
April 30, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/17/Climate_Change_in_California_Impact_on_Marine_Ecosystems Dr. Frank Schwing, Director of Environmental Research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, presents a "reasonable projection" of climate change-induced sea level rise in the San...
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- -: Can the Earth Feed a Population of 9 Billion People?
April 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Matt_Ridley_Deep_Optimism Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, looks at past rates of food production to explain why it should eventually be possible to produce enough food to feed a global population of 9 billion people. ----- Via trade an...
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Eric Sanderson: Eric Sanderson Pictures New York - Before the City
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Eric Sanderson shows how New York City has evolved from the green patch of land into the building-clad city known all over the world.
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Pete Alcorn: On the World in 2200
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Pete Alcorn presents a future world in positive light. He illustrates two trends that will benefit the world's poor as the population pans out and declines.
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