Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,752 views

An interesting way of going about making environmentally friendly change. Will it work? It did in this example.

posted by twiddles 1 decade 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,488 views

Jeffrey Sachs gives a talk on his new book "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" to the Googlers. Listen closely -- it's not often you'll hear an economist question the first tenet of neoclassical... continue reading

posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,581 views

Paul Collier comes to TED with 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion". Collier’s book The Bottom Billion shows what is happening to the poorest people in the world, and offers ideas... continue reading

posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 1,429 views

Bittman extols the virtues of real food over fake food, and in this talk he describes exactly what's wrong with the way we eat now: too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking.... continue reading

posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,227 views

It seems to me that raising the topic of overpopulation has become a taboo subject, but as we move further into this century it is becoming a much larger problem.

posted by GreatBird 1 decade 6 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 2,069 views

Sir Martin Rees is an astrophysicist and cosmologist and Master of Trinity College at Cambridge. He is also the president of the Royal Society.

posted by GreatBird 1 decade 6 years 7 months ago • 2,540 views

A lot of stuff!! More at the National Geographic website: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/human-footprint/?source=4003

posted by notarobot 1 decade 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 2,107 views

( length 10:29 ) Uneducated women from poor areas in the world journey to India to learn solar engineering in six months - their curriculum is similar to that of a college degree completed in an average... continue reading

posted by Obsidianfire 1 decade 6 years 8 months ago • 3,070 views • 10:29

From TED: Architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "All children, all species, for all time." A tireless proponent of... continue reading

posted by youmakekittymad 1 decade 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 2,654 views

enjoy, check out this clip previously Sifted by qruel, clip from PBS e2 design series. http://www.pbs.org/e2/episodes/210_affordable_green_housing_trailer.html... continue reading

posted by Fedquip 1 decade 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,395 views

GapCast #10 with Hans Rosling, from GapMinder.org. All humans emit carbon dioxide (Co2) and contribute to the climate crises. But some humans emits much more than others. Although the total Co2-emission... continue reading

posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 9 months ago • 1,792 views

The scandal involving Paul Wolfowitz has raised many questions about the relevance of the World Bank. Set up just before World War II, the bank along with the IMF, was meant to stabilise the world economy... continue reading

posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,783 views

Hosted at the Real News HQ, three panelists who are at the forefront of building awareness on climate change discuss a range of issues. Recorded on Jan 22. Part 2 is here.... continue reading

posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 427 views

As co-founder and editor of WorldChanging.com, Alex Steffen sees the biggest barriers to building a sustainable planet as political, not technological. Here, he offers an actionable task list of challenges,... continue reading

posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 403 views

Stephen Hawking gives his response to a question he posed previously (on Yahoo answers of all places!).... continue reading

posted by fissionchips 1 decade 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 2,099 views

Author Robert Wright argues that history has an arrow: That humans have continued to evolve -- if not biologically, than culturally and technologically -- toward greater complexity and intelligence. He... continue reading

posted by bluecliff 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 5,216 views

The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies ... all » behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies. More than a billion... continue reading