Artists@Google: Tom Sachs
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The Authors@Google program welcomed Tom Sachs to Google's New York office to discuss his work, and his recent project "Space Program". "Tom Sachs is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll offi... Read more
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- -: Artists@Google: Tom Sachs
March 31, 2009 (about 15 years ago)The Authors@Google program welcomed Tom Sachs to Google's New York office to discuss his work, and his recent project "Space Program". "Tom Sachs is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one ki...
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- -: Authors@Google: Jeffrey Sachs, "The Price of Civilization"
November 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)"The Price of Civilization" As he has done in dozens of countries around the world in the midst of economic crises, Sachs turns his unique diagnostic skills to what ails the American economy. He finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering s...
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- -: Re: Is Jeff Sachs just throwing money at Africa's problems?
January 30, 2008 (over 16 years ago)We're throwing resources, Legend says, not cash. http://www.bigthink.com/the-world/africa/6589
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- -: Jeffrey Sachs on Fighting Global Poverty
September 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)We need a mix of government, private and voluntary sectors, Sachs says. More Jeffrey Sachs videos are here: http://www.bigthink.com/user/jeffrey-sachs
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- -: Jeffrey Sachs's Advice for Young People
September 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://bit.ly/k8QAs2 - Sachs encourages students to go abroad and see life as it is lived for the poor up close.
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- -: Jeffrey Sachs on the Power of Solar Energy
June 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The deserts of the world could provide enough electricity for vast populous regions of the world and do it in a clean and sustainable way—at least until the sun explodes in 5 billion years.
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- -: Life in a Concrete Cube: Albie Sachs Recalls Apartheid
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/21/Albie_Sachs_The_Strange_Alchemy_of_Life_and_Law Albie Sachs, a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, recalls being placed in solitary confinement without trial while living under South African apartheid. Sachs describes the experie...
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- -: Call to Action: Sachs Encourages Funding for Global Women's Rights
March 10, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/29/Meeting_the_Millennium_Development_Goals Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, calls for more funding directed to the UN Millennium Development Goals that benefit women. He emphasizes the importance of providing second...
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