like, you know, "boom"
posted by Crake
1 decade 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,443 views
Ideas for a better world
Created: 1 decade 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago
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Updated: 4 years 10 months 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.
1 decade 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,443 views
Homeless man with a donated flip cam interviews a new arrival on Market street in San Francisco.
posted by PlayhousePals
1 decade 2 years 5 months ago • 1,394 views • 1:45
YouTube Description: "Being a mom is really connected to feeding your kids", says Sarah Gilbert, a stay-at-home working mother. As she learned from her mother growing up, Gilbert strives to educate... continue reading
posted by lucky760
1 decade 2 years 5 months ago • 1,479 views • 4:53
A follow up to this 2008 viral video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&list=PL5BB211B0618B088E&index=1&feature=plcp http://videosift.com/video/Where-the-hell-is-matt-2008 Matt is back again... continue reading
posted by pumkinandstorm
1 decade 2 years 5 months ago • 4,886 views • 4:53
From YT: The Endangered Languages Project is a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about the over 3,000 endangered languages of the world. Continue exploring... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 5 months ago • 639 views • 1:22
A Tulsa woman had a large variety of edible plants growing in her yard. The city received a complaint and told her she had to cut it down. She got the police involved and he got her a citation so she could... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,437 views • 2:24
posted by fissionchips
1 decade 5 years 2 weeks ago • 1,824 views
1 decade 5 years 2 weeks ago • 1,824 views
YouTube Description: The Maldives are known as an unspoilt, paradise island destination for upmarket tourists but the BBC's Simon Reeve has paid a visit to a part of the Maldives that tourists do not... continue reading
posted by mintbbb
1 decade 2 years 6 months ago • 3,095 views • 3:34
Calleja has developed a lighting system that requires no electricity for power. Instead it draws CO2 from the atmosphere and uses it to produce light as well as oxygen as a byproduct. During the day... continue reading
posted by GenjiKilpatrick
1 decade 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 3,557 views • 2:07
The film, by film-maker Johnny Kelly, depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable... continue reading
posted by geo321
1 decade 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 2,281 views • 2:20
he bought it in 1962 and now it's a national park
posted by Paul Richey (Fusionaut) 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 2,666 views • 3:30
Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding An interesting look at how games can aid in understanding difficult topics. "For decades, Brenda Brathwaite has been a major figure in the field of game... continue reading
posted by notarobot 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 600 views • 9:30
From TED: You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect... continue reading
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 4,613 views • 4:28
First public video of the 35-foot-wide Airborne Wind Turbine. The scale prototype harnessed strong winds up to 350 feet high to produce over twice the power of traditional wind turbines. http://www.altaerosenergies.co... continue reading
posted by smiley 1 decade 2 years 7 months ago • 3,575 views • 1:30
Ellen Dunham-Jones describes steps that can be taken over the next 50 years' as part of a sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited,... continue reading
posted by SlipperyPete 1 decade 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,592 views
From Youtube description... "Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air - the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine... continue reading
posted by Deadrisenmortal 1 decade 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 2,975 views • 11:39
Although food activists have been warning for years of the dangers of the massive sugar overload in the American diet, and in particular the perils to our health from the ubiquitous High Fructose Corn... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 3,744 views • 14:09
Join the conversation and support this series at http://www.climatecrocks.com In 1982, Mike MacCracken, then a senior researcher at Livermore Laboratory, gave a lecture at Sandia Labs on the subject... continue reading
posted by BicycleRepairMan 1 decade 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,547 views • 10:31
Israelis deliver a personal message to Iranians: We don't want war with you.
posted by messenger 1 decade 2 years 8 months ago • 1,776 views • 2:13
Around the age of 14 through only reading books and observing pictures and diagrams, a young man created windmills to generate electricity for his village.
posted by longde 1 decade 2 years 8 months ago • 1,294 views • 6:08