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How can we tackle climate change, nuclear proliferation, energy insecurity, and energy poverty all at the same time? Simple, says Amory Lovins in this TED talk: We'll reinvent fire.
In this TED talk, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes lays out his four commandments for the future of cities: environment, mobility, social integration, technology.
Dan Schnitzer of EarthSpark International works to deliver clean energy solutions such as solar LED lamps to developing countries such as Haiti. The trick, he says, lies in innovative deployment strategies.
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Rebecca MacKinnon,
Christopher Avery
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03/22/12
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The Internet is not a force of nature, says Rebecca MacKinnon. It is an accumulation of human decisions, and thus civil society must ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy and human rights.
Maya Pedal Guatemala transforms donated bicycles into a range of labor-saving machines that would otherwise require electricity or manual labor, and they openly share their mechanical mashups with tinkerers around the world.
In the Myth of Financial Protectionism, Kevin Gallagher argues that capital controls tend to correct for market failures due to imperfect information, contagion, and uncertainty.
MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has a vision that within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.
Sustainability should not be about painful deprivation, says Bjarke Ingels in this TED talk. Instead, uplifting design principles can reduce CO2 while improving social cohesion.
In the latest video from Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson, Jr. documents how the Mexican city of Guadalajara has enlivened its roadways with a weekly cultural program that encourages healthy and active recreation in public spaces.
How can we reconfigure incentives so that pharmaceutical companies will innovate new medicines that deliver better health outcomes for more and more people?
Environmentalist Ma Jun discusses the data-driven advocacy he pioneered to hold China's government and businesses accountable for air and water pollution.
What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin is responsible for trust, empathy, and other feelings that help build a stable society.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
Evan O'Neil
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10/20/11
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Going forward, bankers who have received bailout money, or could receive it in the future, should be banned from receiving bonuses. But will this solution satisfy the 99 Percent?
We have seen some great preliminary progress in Government 2.0, but a larger (r)evolution in direct participation could potentially emerge from the Occupy phenomenon.
Australia made a necessary step in the right direction in its efforts to tackle climate change, passing a carbon tax through its lower house of parliament.
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