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posted by Crake 1 decade 5 years 12 months ago • 1,443 viewsIdeas for a better world
Updated: 4 years 10 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.
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 • 1:45YouTube 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 • 4:53A 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 1 week ago • 4,886 views • 4:53From 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 1 week ago • 639 views • 1:22A 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 • 2:24YouTube 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 1 week ago • 3,095 views • 3:34Calleja 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 3 weeks ago • 3,557 views • 2:07The 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 • 2:20he 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 • 3:30Brenda 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 7 months ago • 600 views • 9:30From 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 7 months ago • 4,613 views • 4:28First 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 • 1:30Ellen 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 4 weeks ago • 1,592 viewsFrom 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 2 weeks ago • 2,975 views • 11:39Although 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 • 14:09Join 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 4 weeks ago • 1,547 views • 10:31Israelis 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 • 2:13Around 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 1 week ago • 1,294 views • 6:08