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Environment

Notes from the TED Salon: "Hot Science: Radical Ideas to Combat the Climate Crisis"

Last night in New York City, 250 TEDsters gathered to hear some radical proposals for outsmarting climate change. It’s a fact: Atmosph...

Sep 27, 2007
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Development

Fighting slash and burn in Madagascar: African bloggers take action

At TEDGlobal2007, blogger Andriankoto Ratozamanana, of Harinjaka, gave a 3-minute talk on a developing environmental crisis: the “craz...

Aug 27, 2007
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Environment

Wired's Anderson on Lomborg's "Cool It"

Wired editor Chris Anderson got an advance copy of Bjorn Lomborg’s upcoming book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide...

Aug 12, 2007
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Environment

Ed Burtynsky’s beautifully monstrous "Manufactured landscapes"

If you are planning (you should) to go see Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary “Manufactured landscapes“, which opened last week in ...

Jul 29, 2007
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Development

National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis on TEDTalks

In this stunning talk, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indi...

Jan 10, 2007
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Environment

Al Gore's Climate Project in full swing

At the end of his first speech at TED2006, Al Gore announced that he was going to train a thousand people to give the climate change present...

Jan 8, 2007
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Environment

The cheeseburger footprint

TED2006 speaker Jamais Cascio has a very interesting way of considering cheeseburgers. He tries (in this post) to calculate their carbon foo...

Jan 4, 2007
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Art

2005 TEDPrize winner Ed Burtynsky on TEDTalks

Photographer Ed Burtynsky accepts the 2005 TEDPrize, and presents a stunning slideshow of his work, which explores human impact on the natur...

Oct 31, 2006
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Development

The superefficient Google.org car

To TEDsters, Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google – is mostly known for the inspiring speech its director Larry Brillian...

Sep 15, 2006
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