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Environment

Q&A with Yann Arthus-Bertrand: The environmentalist behind the camera

Today, photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand launched his movie Home, an environmentally conscious tour of our planet through panoramic vistas t...

Jun 5, 2009
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Environment

From software exec to electric car revolutionary: Exclusive interview with Shai Agassi

Shai Agassi has a record of accomplishing huge tasks in record time — from completing his college degree by 18 to founding several suc...

Apr 13, 2009
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Biology

An immune system for the planet: Exclusive interview with Nathan Wolfe

Using genetic sequencing, needle-in-a-haystack research, and dogged persistence (crucial to getting spoilage-susceptible samples through the...

Mar 27, 2009
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Biology

Read all about Willie Smits' 20-year tale of hope

Willie Smits works at the complicated intersection of humankind, the animal world and our green planet. In his early work as a forester in I...

Mar 3, 2009
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Environment

TED2009 minutes from Ethan Zuckerman: Willie Smits is an orangutan hero

Willie Smits at TED 2009 Photo: James Duncan Davidson Ethan Zuckerman has been liveblogging TED2009, sharing the experience in detail. Today...

Feb 6, 2009
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Environment

Twitter Snapshot: Nalini Nadkarni hugs trees and Chris Anderson

Nalini Nadkarni, researcher of and advocate for trees has caused quite a sensation at TED2009. Her passionate projects to save the canopy pr...

Feb 6, 2009
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Environment

I walk the Earth: John Francis on TED.com

For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect...

Nov 5, 2008
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Environment

Bjorn Lomborg asks, Why worry about global warming?

Bjorn Lomborg has a bone to pick with environmentalists, and he’s not afraid to let us know about it. In two recent articles in the Br...

Oct 15, 2008
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Environment

Gore's call for a carbon/jobs Marshall plan

Al Gore (TED2006 speech) at last week’s Clinton Global Initiative: “The key to fighting global poverty is to have the wealthy na...

Oct 1, 2007
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