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October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)

http://www.ted.com Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk you'll ever see ... ...

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Kate Orff: Reviving New York's Rivers with Oysters!

December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)

Kate Orff hopes to save the Gowanus canal through a system inspired by and using oysters. Other canal and river systems with such pollution problems can also adopt the oyster system to help clean-up the future generation's environment.

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Jeremy Jackson: How We Wrecked the Ocean

April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Jeremy Jackson talks about how people played a major role in depleting the living treasures of our planet's oceans.

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Stephen Palumbi: Following the Mercury Trail

April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

In this talk, Stephen Palumbi discusses the state of our Oceans. He explains how the ocean's health is connected to our own by showing us how pollution in the ocean travels all the way back to us through the ecosystem. He also gives us examples on how this problem can be fixed and save not just t...

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Majora Carter: Greening the Ghetto

February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)

Majora Carter's ghetto life opened her eyes to the environmental crises the urban cities, such as New York, are facing as technology and development overtake natural processes in the surroundings.

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