- -: TEDxDU Martha Symko-Davies -- Harnessing the sun with disruptive technologies
May 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The sun delivers more energy in a single day than the entire population of earth uses in a year. As head of the photovoltaic incubator at the US's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Symko-Davies sees early stage technologies that are driving down costs and increasing the efficiency of our most...
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- -: TEDxGunnHighSchool-Emmanuel Mayssat & Sierra Fan- One Million Lights.mov
June 30, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)On weekdays, Emmanuel Mayssat, a graduate of Yale, is an important businessman. On weekends, he is a volunteer at One Million LIghts. In 2007, Emmanuel joined ONe Million Lights to help distribute rechargeable solar powered lights in off-grid, rural areas around the world. Initially investigatin...
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- -: TEDxBoston - Spencer Culhane & Julianne Rhoads - Let the Sun Shine In
July 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)"Most often in architecture school you do get to build the things that you design, but they're at 1/40th of their actual scale. For a group of us this just wasn't enough. We wanted to do something more, something bigger, something real." Spencer Culhane and Julianne Rhodes, students from Massach...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Jackie Savitz - Myths About Offshore Oil Drilling
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jackie Savitz is Campaign Director and Senior Scientist for Oceana's Pollution Campaigns. She has shaped and led campaigns and projects dealing with global warming pollution from ships, mercury contamination of fish, and cruise ship pollution among other issues. Savitz has a background in marine ...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Jigar Shaw - Technology Can Solve the Energy Crisis
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A renowned visionary committed to renewable energy, Jigar Shah launched SunEdison in 2003 based upon a business plan he developed in 1999. That plan became the basis of the SunEdison model: Simplify solar as a service. Shah was tapped by Virgin mogul Richard Branson to head up the Carbon War Room...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Mike Mendez - Green Crude is the Answer
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mike Mendez has held a number of top industry positions at the forefront of the molecular biology revolution. In addition to serving as Director of Bioengineering at GenWay, Mr. Mendez was also associate director of Exploratory Research at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. There he established a new depart...
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- -: TEDxOilSpill - Phil Radford - Can We Kick Our Habit?
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Phil Radford is the Executive Director of Greenpeace USA. He has a background in grassroots organizing, campaign planning, and energy policy. As Grassroots Director, it was Phil's vision and leadership that built Greenpeace's $9 million Grassroots Program and our cutting edge online to on-the-gro...
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- -: TEDxSantaCruz: Joe Jordan - The Solar Window Of Opportunity
August 31, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Joe Jordan worked at NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute for more than 20 years, serving on various projects, including flying observatories for infrared astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope design, studies of stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change, the search for plane...
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- -: TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Arun Majumdar - This is the Future of Energy
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Arun Majumdar became the first Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Energy (ARPA-E), the country's only agency devoted to transformational energy research and development, in October 2009. Dr. Majumdar also currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Secretary. Dr. Majumdar help...
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- -: TEDxSJU - Lynn McConville - Power Up Gambia
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)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 connection in a small group. These local, self-organized even...
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