In praise of urban farmers: A Q&A with City 2.0 essayist Roman Gaus
Imagine a city skyline — a jagged line of peaks, drops and plateaus — all filled with rooftop farms. This is the dream of Roman ...
Sharing makes the city go ‘round: A Q&A with TED Book essayist Emily Badger
Do city people really like to share more? Emily Badger of The Atlantic Cities suggests a new and fascinating phenomenon in urban areas ̵...
Cities without highways: A Q&A with TED Books essayist Diana Lind
In the 1950s, 3 out of every 10 people on the planet lived in a city. Today, that ratio has nearly doubled — and the United Nations pr...
A new way to judge nonprofits: Dan Pallotta at TED2013
Dan Pallotta created two huge charity initiatives — AIDS Rides bicycle journeys and Breast Cancer 3-Day events. These initiatives rais...
How societies grow old: Jared Diamond at TED2013
Growing old in traditional societies Jared Diamond is the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was a provocative answer to the question o...
Escape from North Korea: Hyeonseo Lee at TED2013
Hyeonseo Lee saw her first public execution at age 7. A child growing up in North Korea, the moment affected her, but she didn’t have ...
Remembering and responding online: Lakshmi Pratury at TED2013
Once, Lakshmi Pratury says, she was deeply troubled by the public lives of young people on the Internet, but now she has hope — becaus...
How I named, shamed and jailed: Anas Aremeyaw Anas at TED2013
Anas Aremeyaw Anas can’t show you his face, but his name carries enough weight. Famous in Ghana for his investigative journalism, Anas...
The winner of the TED/Prezi contest remixes Bryan Stevenson’s “We need to talk about an injustice”
Last spring, Robyn Grobler shared a fascinating theory at TED@Johannesburg, one of the 14 stops on our worldwide talent search to find untol...