Architects@Google: Dan Barasch, "The Delancey Underground"
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The Delancey Underground project envisions a fresh approach to solar technology-- using innovative fiber optics to reflect light underground, saving electricity and reducing carbon emissions, and generating the capacity for plants, trees, and grasses to thrive indoors. The "LowLine" is essentially part of the next phase in urban design, in which... Read more
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- -: Architects@Google: Dan Barasch, "The Delancey Underground"
February 28, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The Delancey Underground project envisions a fresh approach to solar technology-- using innovative fiber optics to reflect light underground, saving electricity and reducing carbon emissions, and generating the capacity for plants, trees, and grasses to thrive indoors. The "LowLine" is essentiall...
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- -: Miru Kim: Making art of New York's urban ruins
February 27, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com At the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in them, nude -- to bring these massive, dangerous, hidden spaces into sharp focus. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best tal...
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- -: Guilt By Participation
October 12, 2008 (over 15 years ago)AyersGuilt By Participation
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- -: What is the Large Hadron Collider? - Frank Wilczek
November 13, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/25/Frank_Wilczek_The_LHC_and_Unified_Field_Theory Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explains the Large Hadron Collider, how it works, and what scientists hope to discover with it. ----- Light and matter have long been seen as separate: spirit...
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- -: Rewarding Farmers to Sequester Carbon - Michael Pollan
May 14, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/Michael_Pollan_Deep_Agriculture "Estimates are between 10-15% of all atmospheric carbon could be returned to the soil with sustainable agriculture practices," says author Michael Pollan. He suggests developing a method to measure and reward farmers fo...
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- -: Is the Black Market All Bad? - Nils Gilman
May 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/10/Nils_Gilman_Deviant_Globalization Author Nils Gilman argues that black markets may not be a negative from every perspective. "If you like entrepreneurship, if you like innovation," says Gilman, "then you've got to love deviant globalization." Gilman n...
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- -: How the Sex Trafficking Industry Is Evolving - Lydia Cacho
September 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/Lydia_Cacho_Goes_Undercover_in_the_Global_Sex_Trade Investigative journalist Lydia Cacho traces the increasing sophistication of sex traffickers, who she describes as having gone from simply abducting girls and women to "creating a pop culture of por...
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