The City 2.0: Read (and watch) the TED Prize wish
This powerful wish asks us all to build the city that the future needs. Visit theCity2.Org to join in. Here’s the full text of this in...
Cities and the art of listening: Suja Lowenthal at TED2012
Suja Lowenthal is the Vice Mayor of Long Beach, but she’s also involved in a major project on the other side of the world. She tells u...
Four commandments for cities of the future: Eduardo Paes at TED2012
Eduardo Paes became the mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 2008. He shares his four commandments for ensuring that cities are a great place to live....
How cities make us smarter: Ed Glaeser at TED2012
Ed Glaeser is a economist at Harvard, and the author of Triumph of the City, and as his business casual look he wears a bow-tie with ice-cre...
A musical about climate change: The Civilians at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson On stage now is an excerpt from The Civilians Investigative Theater, performing an excerpt from their musical T...
After tsunami, the Japanese spirit: Ken Mogi at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Ken Mogi, a Ph.D and researcher from the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, bears a flag nearly twice h...
Video: UNHATE showing at TED2012
We’re currently watching this video, shot by director Laurent Chanez for the UNHATE Foundation, founded by the Benetton Group to promo...
Creating a world of abundance: Peter Diamandis at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Chris Anderson comes on stage to acknowledge that the TED stage is more often the domain of the techno-optimist...
Fear and the coming collapse of civilization: Paul Gilding at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Paul Gilding starts his TEDTalk with four words that say almost everything: “The Earth is full.” It...