Charlie Chaplins great speech from "The Great Dictator" (1940) set to images from current events. (Original Film Footage here)
posted by maatc 1 decade 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 2,548 views • 3:38Ideas for a better world
Updated: 4 years 11 months 1 week ago
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It's up to us to rise to the task.
Here are some videos with novel ideas to improve the world we live in.
And a few of the problems that need to be addressed.
Themes (so far) include education, design, society, technology and sustainability.
David Mitchell discusses sustainability, and whether or not there is a way of combatting wastefulness and planned obsolescence. From tables to fuel, could a subscription fee perhaps be a viable solutions.
posted by DerHasisttot 1 decade 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,590 views • 4:15Food speculation.
posted by geo321 1 decade 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 4,266 views • 7:18The more oil and gas companies frack, the more trouble finds a way to happen. Presented by earthjustice.org.
posted by AdrianBlack 1 decade 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 5,000 views • 2:05Sometimes we are so focused on ourselves, we overlook everything else.-yt
posted by geo321 1 decade 3 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 3,327 views • 4:06Indian elder, Oren Lyons, speaks of the path we are on and the upcoming point of no return we are collectively approaching
posted by thatavguy 1 decade 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,776 views • 4:13The good doctor promotes recycling in a public service announcement from 1991.
posted by critical_d 1 decade 3 years 4 months ago • 958 views • 31 secsTED: Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single... continue reading
posted by luxury_pie 1 decade 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,890 views • 17:34Brilliant idea -- simple and effective.
posted by arvana 1 decade 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 13,274 viewsThe roof of the Vancouver BC Convention Centre is covered with over 2.5 hectares (6 acres) of native grassland. If more of these green roofs were to be put on more buildings, displaced birds and insects... continue reading
posted by paganif1 1 decade 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,666 viewsSteve Keil fights the "serious meme" that has infected his home of Bulgaria -- and calls for a return to play to revitalize the economy, education and society. (/TED) Viva la revolution.
posted by notarobot 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 933 views • 17:57A child's experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply.
posted by TickTock 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 3,303 views • 2:32Copenhagen's bicycle ambassador talks about how important the bicycle is for livable cities and how bicycle helmets are threatening bicycle culture.
posted by zeoverlord 1 decade 3 years 7 months ago • 5,750 views • 16:35Radioactive sludge within the sewers of a city outside the evacuation zone, unexpectedly high amounts of radiation inside the plants and a #4 reactor building that appears to be leaning -- yap, everything's... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,031 views • 5:42Sounds perfectly reasonable to me
posted by alien_concept 1 decade 3 years 8 months ago • 3,966 views • 17 secsA year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it. As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 3 years 8 months ago • 1,029 views • 2:00From Vimeo: Nice Game is an short Animation about child soldiers. It try to show two realitys, children on our world are in. The reality of playing or to be in an act of war. Based on official Informations... continue reading
posted by dingens 1 decade 4 years 1 month ago • 958 views • 2:35Nation-wide TV Commercial spot for the residential chemical herbicide, Round Up. "Roundup is the brand name of a systemic, broad-spectrum herbicide produced by the U.S. company Monsanto, and contains... continue reading
posted by notarobot 1 decade 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,690 views • 31 secs"The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see" On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist... continue reading
posted by Constitutional_Patriot 1 decade 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 6,105 viewsLegendary Canadian canola farmer who fought the corporate giant Monsanto! GMO Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeiser http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm... continue reading
posted by Sagemind 1 decade 3 years 9 months ago • 1,448 views • 13:29